Pest trap

Digital pest control replaces regular inspection rounds with connected traps that report their own status. Insect traps send a live image of the sticky surface along with temperature and humidity to an IoT platform such as Cumulocity, while snap traps report as soon as they have been triggered. The pest controller sees on a dashboard or mobile device which trap needs checking and avoids rounds that find nothing.

A rodent monitoring system reports immediately when a snap trap has been triggered. This matters because animal welfare law sets requirements for how often traps must be checked, and traps that have caught something must be inspected on site promptly. In the Fusion IoT solution example, the message travels via router and server to the pest controller's mobile device. Mobile Wi-Fi routers keep the connection going when no Wi-Fi is available on site.

A monitor box attracts insects onto a sticky surface with a lure or pheromone, and the digital unit sends a live image of it to the cloud. An AI tool automatically classifies the catch into pests, nuisance insects and beneficial insects and feeds the result back into the dashboards. Previously, depending on the customer, pest controllers had to count hundreds of pests by hand. Temperature and humidity sensors also show the conditions under which infestations develop.

Food and pharmaceutical businesses face strict compliance requirements, and traditional inspections tie up a lot of staff. In highly automated storage facilities, halls have to close once or twice a year for inspection. With digital monitoring, routine inspections run digitally according to the provider, so this downtime disappears. Because infestations are detected early, larger outbreaks can be avoided and fewer chemicals are needed. A grain mill uses the environmental data for prevention.