Honey Flow Africa is bringing the power of IoT (Internet of Things) to help digitize beekeeping. Moving from calendar-based decisions to data-driven solutions helps optimize beekeeping operations and keep healthy bees. The Internet of Things (IoT) is a system of interrelated computing devices, mechanical and digital machines, objects, animals or people that are provided with unique identifiers and ability to transfer data over a network without requiring human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction. IoT will allow for continuous monitoring of sensor data such as weight, temperature, humidity, sound, foraging activity, rainfall, air intensity, air direction and geographic location data of the apiaries. Our Honey Flow Africa Hive Network will allow us to ‘listen’ to the honey bees and analyzing intricate acoustic data captured inside the smart hives, including the movement of bees’ wings and feet. Combined with other precision measurements—including temperature, humidity and honey yield, we will be able to closely monitor bee colonies, detecting patterns and predicting behaviors. This will enable us and out-grower beekeepers to take action to protect colonies, such as preventing swarming at the wrong time of year or removing predators like the invasive wasp and ants. Our lives are intrinsically connected to the bees. By protecting bees and other pollinators we help solve problems with global food supply and poverty and reduce further loss of biodiversity and damage of ecosystems. It will enable advanced research and, crucially, action on a scale previously impossible to achieve. The more we understand the relationships between pollination, food and human wellbeing, the more we can do to protect bees and pollinators—and help protect our planet and ourselves. The data and insights gained by using cloud services will be made available to research and conservation projects working to protect bees around the world.