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Futuristicbeehive
Our project represents next generation indoor hive for api therapy
Our project represents an indoor hive for indoor purposes, with all the utilities integrated into the body, without the need for external modules and complete availability of benefits from API therapy, including API inhalation, collection of honey, pollen, and propolis, and observation of all honey bee processes.
Serbia
National
Mainly urban
It refers to other types of transformations (soft investment)
Prototype level
No
No
As an individual

Our project presents an innovative technological solution in the form of hardware that enables the
keeping of bee colonies indoors without disturbing the life of the bee colony. Futuristic beehive competitive
advantages:
• Enables the observation of all honey bee processes
• Collecting the bee products (pollen, propolis, and honey) safely without the use of additional
equipment.
• API inhalation, one of the rising health care applications is available 0/24h during the bee activity.
• The product is designed to be simple and easy to use, with futuristic architecture and design.
• All the elements are integrated into the hive body, except the external API inhalation device.
• Everything is developt to enable the bee colony to be sustainable at room temperature, and there is
the possibility of implementing an IOT monitoring system.
• Taphoney system - The utility we pay the most attention to is the honey collection system through
the tap, which allows users to get pure honey by simply spinning the wheel.
• Unique solutions for hive assembly, maintenance, colonization, pollen consumption, cleaning,
feeding, swarm prevention, brood limitation, card system.
The bee colony circulates undisturbed by the environment. This hive represents a double solution for both the bee community and humans. Placing beehives in urban areas encourages urban beekeeping, which not only contributes to the local ecosystem, but also raises awareness among citizens about the importance of bees. This creates a circular system of mutual benefit between humans and bees. The circular model creates a sustainable synergy between people and nature - we take care of the bees, providing them with a safe habitat, and they take care of us through pollination and the production of products.
Urban beekeeping
Api therapy
Sustainability
Food of the future
Climate change
The global value of pollinators for agriculture is estimated at around $200 billion annually, with over 75% of plant species relying on them. However, access to essential beekeeping products, such as honey and propolis, remains a challenge, especially during crises like the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, access to API inhalation therapy is often limited, despite its potential benefits for respiratory health.
Futuristic Beehive presents an innovative circular system that merges technology, nature, and human needs, offering pollinator decline threatens ecosystems and food security. Our beehive integrates humans into the process, reducing habitat pressure, supporting urban beekeeping, and strengthening resilience against climate change.
The system provides individuals with a personal “mini pharmacy,” ensuring access to unadulterated honey, propolis, and API inhalation therapy. This is crucial for people with respiratory issues who lack access to alternative treatments.
Households gain access to high-quality bee products while fostering a deeper connection with nature. This closed-loop model promotes harmony, where humans provide bees with a safe habitat, and bees, in return, support pollination and product creation.
Many remain unaware of apitherapy benefits, particularly in urban areas where air pollution and stress impact respiratory health. By promoting education and accessibility, this innovation helps integrate apitherapy into daily life.
In today’s world, technology is often seen as a disruptor of nature. However, Futuristic Beehive demonstrates how innovation can bridge this gap restoring ecological balance, ensuring food security, and reconnecting humans with the natural world.
At first glance, the Futuristic Beehive symbolizes the deep connection between humans and nature.

Wall mounted design – This hive is crafted to provide an unusual experience, allowing users to observe bees as they leave and return while intuitively aligning their daily lives with natural rhythms. It brings a sense of participation in nature conservation while promoting health and well-being through honey and API inhalation.

Orange design with a golden frame – A perfect blend of functionality and visual appeal. The warm orange hue, reminiscent of solar energy and vitality, combined with a golden frame, evokes luxury and harmony.

Elegant and modern aesthetics – This contemporary design transforms any space into a sanctuary of peace while offering a personal mini pharmacy at home.

Innovative Features
- Safe and effortless honey consumption
- Designed for both bees and humans, the hive requires minimal intervention, eliminating the need for extensive equipment. Its futuristic architecture ensures ease of use.
- 24/7 API inhalation access: This growing health application is fully integrated into the hive, with an external API inhalation device for user convenience.
- Sustainable bee colony management
- TapHoney System: A built-in honey collection system, allowing users to dispense pure honey directly from a tap effortlessly.
- Crafted from acrylic plastic, known for its durability and transparency, the Futuristic Beehive enables users to observe bee activity without disruption.
- Moisture and UV-resistant
- Aesthetically appealing, ensuring both function and style
- Made from recyclable plastic to support sustainability
In urban areas, finding local beekeepers or specialized stores for bee products can be challenging. Many people struggle to access propolis, bee venom, or other essential materials for inhalation therapy. Consumers have become increasingly cautious when buying honey, preferring to purchase from trusted beekeepers for guaranteed quality.

Research shows that the average age of beekeepers exceeds 40 years, presenting challenges due to the physical demands of beekeeping. Meanwhile, honey consumption is rising, yet concerns remain about the quality of honey available in retail stores.

The Futuristic Beehive represents a new generation of beekeeping, integrating advanced technologies and making beekeeping more accessible while promoting eco-friendly practices:

Inclusive Beekeeping:

By simplifying the process, beekeeping becomes accessible to a wider audience, opening new opportunities for individuals interested in sustainable living.

Fusion of Modern and Traditional:

A futuristic, aerodynamic design seamlessly integrates into contemporary spaces, offering both aesthetic appeal and functionality. Unlike traditional hives that require intensive supervision and maintenance, this design reduces labor while enhancing efficiency.

This innovation makes beekeeping more appealing and accessible to younger generations, ensuring a sustainable future for the industry.
The Futuristic Beehive actively involves citizens and civil society by integrating sustainability, education, and technology into urban beekeeping. The project fosters a circular ecosystem, promoting biodiversity while providing direct benefits to people.

The project introduces urban beekeeping, raising awareness about pollinators and their role in ecosystems. Workshops and practical demonstrations teach sustainable beekeeping and apitherapy benefits.

Many citizens are skeptical about honey quality in retail. The TapHoney system enables them to collect pure honey effortlessly.

Placing beehives in restaurants, wellness centers, and urban spaces contributes to biodiversity, pollination, and environmental health, enhancing green spaces in cities.

API inhalation therapy, available 24/7, provides respiratory benefits, particularly in cities with air pollution. Citizens gain direct access to natural health products like honey, propolis, and pollen.

Collaboration & Inclusivity:
Partnerships with educational institutions, environmental organizations, and wellness centers promote sustainable beekeeping.

The project helps restaurants, resorts, and wellness centers integrate local honey production, supporting sustainable food systems and urban agriculture.
The project promotes accessible beekeeping, allowing citizens to harvest pure honey effortlessly while raising awareness of pollinators' importance.

Hotels, restaurants, and glamping resorts integrate on-site beehives, providing fresh honey and promoting eco-conscious tourism.

API inhalation therapy is explored for respiratory health benefits, particularly in polluted urban areas.

Beekeeping & Agricultural Associations :
These organizations support urban beekeeping, ensuring bee colony sustainability and improving pollination practices.

Universities contribute to bee health research, apitherapy studies, and ecological awareness initiatives.

European Engagement:
The project aligns with EU biodiversity and green urban development policies, encouraging pollinator protection and sustainable farming.

Collaborations support the implementation of best practices in sustainable beekeeping and the conservation of pollinators in cities.
The Futuristic Beehive project brings together experts from multiple disciplines to develop an innovative, sustainable, and user-friendly beekeeping system. The team includes professionals specializing in beekeeping, engineering, product design, business strategy, law, and sustainability, ensuring a well-rounded approach to both design and implementation.

Project leader Petar Kovačević, an expert in queen bee breeding and production, played a crucial role in integrating traditional beekeeping knowledge with modern technology, enhancing efficiency and sustainability. Lazar Marunkić, an experienced production manager, contributed to optimizing manufacturing processes, reducing costs, and ensuring the scalability of the project from MVP to mass production. Jovan Micković, a legal specialist, provided expertise in intellectual property, regulatory compliance, and partnerships, ensuring the project’s smooth operation within legal frameworks.

A key focus of the project is safe and efficient collection of bee products. Traditional beekeeping requires frequent interventions that can disrupt bee colonies, while the Futuristic Beehive allows for a controlled and low-intervention approach. The TapHoney system enables users to extract pure honey effortlessly, ensuring minimal disturbance to the bees. The hive is designed to support sustainable micro bee communities, reducing the risk of hive collapse and ensuring stable honey and propolis production.

By integrating engineering, beekeeping, sustainability, and legal expertise, the project ensures a balance between technological innovation, environmental responsibility, and regulatory compliance. This interdisciplinary collaboration has resulted in a scalable and sustainable beekeeping model, allowing for safe and efficient honey collection while preserving pollinators and biodiversity.
The Futuristic Beehive is the only hive that is both functional and fully integrated, making it the hive of the future. Traditional observation hives rely on modular systems for collecting bee products, which can be complex and impractical.
The functionality of our hive ensures safe and efficient use, including:

Consumption of honey, pollen, and API inhalation
TapHoney system – A honey collection system that allows users to obtain pure honey simply by turning a wheel. This feature simplifies the honey extraction process by enabling direct dispensing from the hive.
The integration of the hive is reflected in:

Micro bee communities – Small bee colonies struggle to survive in nature. By establishing micro communities within an integrated system, we reduce the risk of hive raids, supporting the long-term survival of the bee colony.
Non-modular system – Bees do not accept modular structures. Each part of the bee community has a specific and interconnected role. The hive operates as a unified system, where every component affects and depends on the behavior of the entire colony, rather than functioning as separate modules.
Varroa protection system – By creating micro bee communities and minimizing external threats, we reduce the risk of Varroa mite infestations, although not entirely. Therefore, our hive incorporates a Varroa control system to eliminate potential risks that could endanger the bee colony.

Thanks to the Futuristic Beehive’s functional and integrated system, we enable not only the consumption of bee products with minimal human intervention (such as adding supplementary food) but also a deeper understanding of bee colony dynamics. This system plays a crucial role in pollinator conservation, which is essential for biodiversity preservation.
Traditional observation hives rely on modular systems for collecting bee products, which can be complex and impractical.

The functionality of our hive ensures safe and efficient use, including:
- Consumption of honey, pollen,propolis and API inhalation
- A honey collection system that allows users to obtain pure honey simply by turning a wheel. This feature simplifies the honey extraction process by enabling direct dispensing from the hive.

The integration of the hive is reflected in:
Micro bee(nucleus) communities - Small bee colonies struggle to survive in nature. By establishing micro colonies within an integrated system, we reduce the risk of hive raids, supporting the long-term survival of the bee colony.

Non-modular system - Bees do not accept modular structures. Each part of the bee community has a specific and interconnected role. The hive operates as a unified system, where every component affects and depends on the behavior of the entire colony, rather than functioning as separate modules.

By creating micro bee colonies and minimizing external threats, we reduce the risk of Varroa mite infestations, although not entirely. Therefore, our hive reduces a Varroa potential risks that could endanger the bee colony.

Thanks to the integrated system, we enable not only the consumption of bee products with minimal human intervention (such as adding supplementary food) but also a deeper understanding of bee colony dynamics. This system plays a crucial role in local polination, which is essential for biodiversity preservation.
The core idea is to enable all users, not just beekeepers, to participate in the production of bee products, opening new opportunities for inclusive production. Additionally, our project has the potential to be replicated and transferred to various locations, user groups, and contexts:
Tourism and hospitality venues - Can serve as valuable platforms for observing bee activity.
Spa and wellness centers - Can explore the integration of bee products into treatments designed to enhance physical and mental health.
Educational institutions - Are in a position to empower communities by offering practical workshops and conducting research projects related to beekeeping, increasing awareness and facilitating hands-on learning.
Medical institutions - Can study the synergistic effects of hyperbaric therapy and apitherapy, expanding the scope of therapeutic applications.
Agricultural associations - Could develop marketing strategies that position beekeeping as a key component of sustainable development while advocating for eco-friendly practices.
Urban beekeeping associations - Can provide guidelines for swarm management and improving habitats suitable for pollinators.
Companies and business associations - Can incorporate environmental protection and bee conservation into their business strategies.
Distributors and sales agents - Can facilitate access to bee-related products and services.
By implementing this model across different industries, we enable broader applications of beekeeping and bee products, contributing to sustainable development and increasing environmental awareness.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the average city has only 10-20% green spaces, while an ideal living environment requires at least 30-40%. Urbanization leads to biodiversity loss, destroying natural ecosystems and habitats for plants and animals. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) states that 80% of plant species depend on pollinators. In many parts of the world, bee populations have declined by up to 30% in recent years. The beekeeping market was valued at $11.15 billion in 2023 and is projected to grow to $19.56 billion by 2028.

This project addresses several global challenges:
- Biodiversity loss and pollinator decline – The decreasing bee population threatens agriculture and ecosystems. Beehives help stabilize pollinator populations, promoting ecological balance and biodiversity conservation.
- Environmental challenges and sustainable development – Communities face resource conservation challenges. This project allows people to participate in sustainable beekeeping, minimizing environmental impact and encouraging green initiatives to combat climate change.
- Climate change adaptation:
Extreme weather conditions impact bee survival. By monitoring bee activity, hives collect data to support research on climate change effects and pollinator protection strategies.
- Education and ecological awareness:
A lack of knowledge about pollinators' importance is a global issue. Futuristic Beehives provide educational resources and hands-on learning, allowing communities, schools, and tourists to engage with bee ecosystems, promoting global environmental awareness.
- Local production and sustainable markets:
Many regions need stronger local economies and sustainable supply chains. Producing honey, wax, and propolis supports local economies, reduces imports, and strengthens global markets.
Our plan for further development and promotion of the project in the coming year includes several key activities:

Active participation in fairs and events – Events related to beekeeping, sustainability, and education are essential. Attending fairs allows us to engage directly with a broad audience, raising awareness about the importance of bees and beekeeping. We plan to educate potential users, particularly about pollinator conservation and sustainable beekeeping practices, while showcasing how our project can benefit the wider community.

Inclusion and accessibility – We plan to offer special discounts for people with disabilities and educational centers. This initiative aims to make beekeeping more accessible to a larger audience, regardless of physical or social barriers, enabling more people to engage with beekeeping and become part of our community.

Through these activities, we aim to expand our network, provide practical and educational resources to the public, and create an inclusive platform that promotes collaboration, education, and access to sustainable practices. Additionally, we will focus on further development and implementation of technologies that will make beekeeping more accessible and efficient for all users, with a strong emphasis on ecological and inclusive initiatives.