The Bees at the Mobile World Congress

Neither drones nor Black Mirror. The 14,000 bees that can be seen in a hive at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona are real. And there they are, enduring the hustle and bustle of congress attendees to demonstrate to the world that a system of sensors connected to a cloud allows them to be more efficient. The project is by the American company Nimbelink, which is responsible for monitoring hives, among many other things, but as its manager David Houghton acknowledged this Tuesday, “the bees are sexier; if I had brought a container, no one would have come to see me.”