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Sensibee is a non-lethal autonomous device that photographs insects and uses cloud-based AI to identify species, giving land managers actionable real-time biodiversity insight.
About
Pollinatework Ltd is a London-based impact startup dedicated to reversing the global decline of wild pollinators. Our flagship innovation, Sensibee™, is the first scalable, solar-powered camera station and cloud platform that autonomously attracts, photographs and identifies insects in real time. Using edge AI on-device and deep-learning models in the cloud, each unit delivers 1,000 times more data than traditional field surveys—without harming a single insect.
Backed by Innovate UK and in partnership with Kingston and Queen Mary Universities, we have already processed more than 50 million images, deployed devices with research and conservation partners, and secured early commercial sales. Sensibee’s continuous, species-level insights empower farmers, land managers and developers to make evidence-based decisions that enhance biodiversity, meet regulatory obligations and safeguard future food security.
Key Benefits
Pollinators are the most sensitive, locally faithful bio-indicators of habitat quality, they thus deliver the earliest, clearest signal of biodiversity loss or nature-recovery success. Sensibee makes continuous real-time pollinator monitoring universally accessible.
- Real-time decision support for land managers – Actionable dashboards and APIs translate images into live indicators, letting farmers fine-tune pesticide regimes, time supplemental pollination or evaluate habitat interventions within minutes—not months.
- Lower total cost than traditional surveys – By eliminating manual identification, travel and expert fees, Sensibee delivers continuous insight at a fraction of the cost per data point, freeing budgets for habitat enhancement rather than data collection.
- 1 000 × richer data, all year round – Autonomous stations capture continuous imagery, generating orders-of-magnitude more observations than manual transects and revealing daily, seasonal and long-term trends invisible to snapshot surveys.
- Species-level intelligence on demand – Edge-to-cloud AI pinpoints insects to species (or best available taxon), instantly flagging rare pollinators, invasive species and crop pests so you know exactly which organisms are thriving or declining.
- Evidence for regulation, certification & biodiversity credits – Sensibee provides auditable, location-specific records that satisfy Biodiversity Net Gain, ELMS payments and sustainable-farming audits, de-risking compliance and opening new revenue streams.
- Non-lethal monitoring – Optical imaging avoids killing insects—helping organisations meet net-zero pledges and ESG goals.
Applications
Target markets:
- Crop-consultancy & agronomy services – firms that bundle IPM advice, soil testing and biodiversity monitoring for growers.
- Pollination-dependent growers – orchard, soft-fruit, oilseed and horticulture estates where yields and quality hinge on insect activity.
- Agri-food supply chains & retailers – sourcing, sustainability and ESG teams that need auditable biodiversity KPIs from their producer network – or who just want to show beautiful photos of the biodiversity they are supporting
- Environmental survey & biodiversity-credit providers – consultancies and nature-market platforms who must gather species-level evidence at scale.
- Land developers & infrastructure projects – actors subject to UK Biodiversity Net Gain or similar regulations, seeking low-cost, continuous compliance data.