# Bee Hive Tag placement

**URL:** https://f.ruuvi.com/t/bee-hive-tag-placement/6761
**Category:** 🇬🇧 RuuviTag & RuuviTag Pro sensors
**Created:** [7 August 2024 06:03 UTC](https://f.ruuvi.com/t/bee-hive-tag-placement/6761 "2024-08-07T06:03:10Z")
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### Author: ![Marko](https://f.ruuvi.com/user_avatar/f.ruuvi.com/marko/32/3071_2.png) [@Marko](https://f.ruuvi.com/u/Marko)
#### Post date: [8 August 2024 01:19 UTC](https://f.ruuvi.com/t/bee-hive-tag-placement/6761/2 "2024-08-08T01:19:08Z")

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Hi @Sarah_Newton ,

Thank you for your message!

For positioning the sensor inside a beehive @henri might have a good idea about this, please wait for his reply.

In general, wireless signals have tendency to get attenuated and even blocked by physical barriers, especially with certain materials. We have written [a support article](https://ruuvi.com/signal-strenght/) to help you to improve wireless signal reception. If you have a line of sight to your Ruuvi sensor, the Bluetooth signal could in theory be received up to 200 meters in ideal conditions, but with any physical barrier in between this can drop to less than a tenth or even get completely blocked. Your mobile device wireless capabilities can also vary depending of the make and model of your device.

Our Ruuvi Station Android app supports [data forwarding](https://ruuvi.com/app-settings-data-forwarding-android/) to a third party server, but it’s not really designed to be a long term solution and may be quite impractical requiring a spare mobile device to be powered, keeping it within signal range and even possibly paying for the data collection service. Instead, Ruuvi sensors record measurements to internal memory at a lower interval (5 minutes interval, up to 10 days history can be stored), which can then be downloaded to Ruuvi Station app manually by pressing sync button on history view page, which might be a good (with no additional costs included) starting point for you, depending on your beehive size of course.

If you are up for a little DIY, you could also build your own system using Raspberry Pi, there is an interesting discussion regarding this on our [forum](https://f.ruuvi.com/t/beehive-monitor/463/2).

The most trouble-free solution with an improved wireless signal range and a complete remote monitoring system including data storage in cloud and much more can be achieved using our [Ruuvi Gateway](https://ruuvi.com/gateway) and a [subscription](https://cloud.ruuvi.com). Internet connection is required for collecting data to cloud service. It’s also possible to use Ruuvi Gateway with your own solution with a bit of tinkering, here are few links for this:

> **[How To: relay third-party sensor data to a HTTP(S) server with Ruuvi Gateway](https://ruuvi.com/how-to-relay-third-party-sensor-data-to-http-server-with-ruuvi-gateway/)**
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> Learn how to seamlessly relay third-party sensor data to an HTTP server using Ruuvi Gateway.

> **[MQTT with Ruuvi Gateway](https://ruuvi.com/how-to-use-mqtt-with-your-ruuvi-gateway/)**
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> Discover seamless integration of MQTT with your Ruuvi Gateway! Explore our step-by-step guidance on leveraging MQTT for enhanced connectivity and data management.

> **[Ruuvi Gateway data collection via polling](https://ruuvi.com/how-to-collect-history-using-polling/)**
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> Learn how to easily collect historical measurement data from your Ruuvi Gateway using polling. In our examples we will access the data using cURL in Terminal.

I hope these ideas will get you started!

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