# My Hive Sensor

> For the last couple of weeks I have been preparing my bees for winter. I wanted a way to know for sure that they were still alive when the REAL cold weather com

- Type: Community update
- Community: [The Things Network Alaska](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/alaska/)
- Author: Mark Huelskoetter
- Published: 2019-10-15
- Web page: https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/alaska/post/my-hive-sensor

For the last couple of weeks I have been preparing my bees for winter. I wanted a way to know for sure that they were still alive when the REAL cold weather comes around. The last thing I want to do is open it up and check, exposing them to the cold when I don't have to.

So, I purchased a few items including a temperature / humidity sensor (DHT-22) and an Adafruit Feather 32u4 Radio (RFM69HCW). Put them in a box and placed the sensor in my hive. I was extremely pleased to see the gateways in the Anchorage area picking up my packets! Thank you to those who host the gateways!

I added in integration so I could easily acces my data from the internet which you can look at here:

https://io.adafruit.com/subzero_ak/dashboards/hive-sensor

Thanks again.

Mark