The primary goals of WaggleNet is to create an intuitive and complete open-source IoT solution for both research and general use. Through this system, data collection should be as easy as placing the sensors where you want them. Once a sensor is placed and added to the system through a few button clicks, this teams cloud-based platform takes care of everything else. From managing the wireless devices to storing and presenting the data, all other details are handled behind the scenes. Since this teams motivation is research rather than profit, the cost of adding a sensor will be well below those of commercial offerings. The open-source nature of the project leverages non-proprietary solutions and allows developers to expand the data-collection system to new uses. Specifically, the Smart Sensor initiative enables everyone to easily configure their own custom sensors to work with the WaggleNet system, providing an ever-growing sensor portfolio to our other users.

Deliverables of WaggleNet include the following: - Field-tested, mass-producible design files of the WaggleNet hardware lineup that includes sensors, wireless network nodes, and routers. - An automated system that configures the aforementioned hardware during manufacture. - The WaggleNet Cloud deployed in the AWS platform, ready to support WaggleNet users and hardware. - A debugged system through pilot tests of the system at partnering facilities, and deployments in general user’s beehives and fields. - The capacity to aggregate, anonymize, and share datasets from WaggleNet Cloud with researchers, and the platform to host machine-learning models for processing of the collected data