Smart Mosquito Trap to automate Urban Surveillance of Disease Vectors
launched: 2018 | status: In Development | Applicable for Rural Areas
Solution Summary
Smart mosquito trap, integrated as a sensor in Smart Cities, to automate their mosquito surveillance and control programmes.
Key Benefits
Problem
Many cities are colonised by dangerous species of mosquitoes that carry diseases like Zika, Dengue, Malaria, West Nile virus, etc. Due to climate change, countries like Finland have detected the presence of exotic species like the Tiger Mosquito. These species are carried by cargo transport (planes, boats, trains, trucks, cars).
Health agencies and private pest management companies implement control networks in cities using traps. However these traps have to be manually inspected, making the surveillance laborious, expensive and less effective. Every week or 15 days, each trap is visited and the technician counts the captures insects, identifies the species of mosquitoes and the sex. Samples are taken to a lab for age determination of female mosquitoes.
Aim
Our smart sensor can be easily adapted to commercial mosquito traps. This device automates and digitises the surveillance programmes of mosquitoes in urban and non-urban areas.
Spatial Level
Approach
The sensor automatically counts the insects, differentiates mosquitoes, identifies the specifies, identifies the sex and determines the age. The data is wirelessly sent to a cloud server, and is readily available in real-time to City Heath Agencies and Pest Control Companies.
This solution helps protecting populations preventing the uncontrolled increase of mosquito activity, and preventing potential outbreaks of diseases transmitted by mosquito bites.
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Involved Parties
Health Public Agency of Barcelona
Centre for Research into Animal Health- Barcelona
Implemented in
Barcelona, Spain
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Our platform greatly increases transparency and the visibility of cities, companies and other smart city actors.