Honey, on the record
In ARIA the season is recorded while it happens: visits with where they were saved, photos with when they were taken, treatments with their withdrawal periods, harvests with their frames. Sealing a batch locks those records and gives the batch a QR code. Its page checks the story against data the beekeeper does not control.
How it works
- 1Record the season — visits (voice, photos, the hive’s QR code), treatments and harvests, in the app.
- 2Seal the batch — choose the harvests; the records are locked with a fingerprint (SHA-256), and later corrections stay visible. Within hours the fingerprint is also written into Bitcoin (OpenTimestamps) — free, nothing to do.
- 3The checks run — ten cross-checks against the nectar flow model, NASA weather and the records themselves.
- 4Print the QR — on the jar label; the page shows the region, never the apiary’s exact place.
- 5Anyone scans — a buyer, a shop or an inspector sees the batch, each check and when it was sealed; a printed copy can be verified.
What the page checks
Each check says pass, a note, or unknown when the data is missing — never a guess.
- Visits at the apiary — each visit was saved within 500 m of the hives (only the distance is kept).
- Photos from there, on the day — what the camera wrote into each photo: when and how far from the apiary.
- A flow at harvest — the nectar flow model shows a flow in that region at harvest time.
- Medicine withdrawal periods — no harvest falls inside a treatment’s withdrawal period.
- Honey per frame — the weight per frame taken is within what a frame holds.
- Honey frames seen before — the harvest matches the honey frames recorded in earlier visits.
- Weather on visit days — visits fell on days bees fly (NASA POWER daily weather).
- Written on time — records entered long after the event are shown as late, with their dates.
- Corrections kept — a changed harvest weight or record keeps its earlier versions.
- No syrup before harvest — no sugar fed to the harvested hives in the 30 days before the harvest.
What it is, and what it is not
It shows documented, consistent production. It is not a laboratory test of the honey: adulteration is found by accredited labs, and a lab result can sit beside a batch. The Bitcoin timestamp proves the sealed record existed by that day and has not changed since — anyone checks it at opentimestamps.org without trusting ARIA. It does not prove the honey is pure, nor that what was recorded is true: that is what the checks and a lab report are for.
The page shows the region and the country, the producer’s name only if they choose, and counts scans by day and country — nothing about who scanned.
Pollination check — being built for the 2027 season
Almond, cherry and blueberry growers rent hives for a few weeks of bloom and rarely know what arrived. We are building a check run from the grower's phone: the app picks hives at random, the photos are taken in the morning before bees fly (time and place recorded by the server), and a report compares them with the contract the same day — then, after bloom, whether fruit set was limited by pollination. It is not available yet; we are looking for growers and exporters to shape it with us.
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