Alert and Capture of Rodents Electronic System for the Agro-Industrial Sector

Abstract

In Peru, rodent control requires a lot of time and effort from the pest controller. An agro-industrial company puts in place between 50 to 200 devices, which are checked periodically. Sometimes rodents are found in a state of putrefaction with a high risk of contamination. The objective is to develop a permanent rat extermination method (24 hours / 7 days) in substitution of the «traditional» method. For this reason, a smart control system was developed, which sends alerts to the presence or capture of a rodent in the devices, either by means of a text message or email message, allowing a quick intervention; it counts on also with a software package that records all the captures and events in the devices. The project was developed from March to December 2017. In the laboratory phase, the prototypes 1, 2 and 3 were designed and assembled; later a prototype 4, imported, was included for comparison purposes with the previous ones. The tests were carried out at Control SAC., in La Victoria, Lima. Prototypes with the highest efficiency in sending communications were prototype 1 and 4 with 100% and 95.76% efficiency, respectively. The selected prototypes went to the field phase, which was carried out in three companies of the agro-industrial sector, located in Callao and Lurin. The average efficiency of prototypes 1 and 4 were 88.31% and 90.53%, respectively. The economic analysis showed us that prototype 1 turned out to be 24.3% cheaper than prototype 4. Both prototypes showed greater commercial viability for the local market, taking into account that the first works with a WiFi network, while the second with text messaging (alternation in the commercial portfolio of the company). During the developing of the project, it was achieved a continuous monitoring for the control of rodents (24 hours / 7 days).