This document summarizes the advantages of using IoT technologies for rodent management. It describes how traditional methods using glue traps are inefficient, taking 6 hours to inspect 30 traps across a site. The RodentEye system uses PIR sensors to create a heat map of rodent activity areas. Video cameras then validate rodent presence using video analytics. Sensor traps are strategically placed in high activity areas. Over time, as the number of sensor triggers and rodent catches increase, activity levels drop, showing the effectiveness of the IoT-based pest control program. The system provides transparent, data-driven rodent monitoring and management to help businesses avoid disruptions and shutdowns from rodent issues.

1. Singapore Industrial
Automation Association
(SIAA)
Dr Tan Guan Hong
Immediate Past President
I2R Outreach event for
Productivity using Technology
8th Nov 2017

2. Singapore Industrial
Automation Association
(SIAA)
Networking Dinner
20th Feb 2009
2009

3. In-depth knowledge and
experience in Multi-Disciplinary
Expertise,
• Early adopters in Information
Technology amongst the
manufacturing and technology
industries,
• Well supported by Government
• Availability of local and foreign
engineers
2009

4. • Geographically Small to Develop and Test bed new
technologies and Design Changes can be addressed
within 45 mins (East to West)
• Accessible Cross Disciplinary Companies to come
together. Ideal for new Technology Development &
Deployment
• Many Technology SMEs within a small country with
excellent supplier network to develop new innovative
solutions to shorten the time to market
2009

5. The small size of Singapore is NOW its
Advantage.
To copy Singapore, the country has turn small and
compact to copy Singapore, which is impossible to
do !
2009

6. •Government support for Local SMEs to evolve
•Bring the technology into the market needs a
Productization Bridge
•Automation SMEs are changing in their
businesses from Hard to more Soft Automation
•Emergence of Specialized Automation
Businesses, Machine Builders and System
Integrators
2009

7. SIAA I2T Seminar in Feb 2004
Colin
Koh
OJ
Chung
2009

8. M2M Expo Conference in
March 2004 Dallas, USA
2009

9. Construction
Facility/Building/Home
Logistics/SupplyChain
SIAA M2M Model
Domain Specific Sensors @ Data
Generation Layer with Networked-Devices
Internet Enabling
Mobile Enabling
Network Enabling
Data Management of Sensor Outputs
Healthcare
High-EndManufacturing
Transport
Telematics/In-Vehicle
Environment
RenewableEnergy
Vertical Domain
Knowledge crosses
with Technology
Horizontal Layers
2009

10. SIAA Vice President Raymond
Tay receiving LEAD Award
from MTI Minister Lim
2009

11. “You cannot Manage
What you cannot Measure”
We learn from
the Quality Guru
Edwards Deming

12. Important to have a Trusted Maintenance
System which is Transparent, Scientific and
uses Technology. Less dependent on human
Judgement and Recording
From Straits Times 4 November 2017:
SINGAPORE - Flooded train tunnels a month ago caused
large segments of the North-South MRT line to grind to a
halt for over 20 hours, affecting 250,000 commuters.
In a shocking announcement last week, SMRT
announced that falsified maintenance records were behind
the major disruption.
Engineers tasked with maintaining the pumps quarterly had
signed off without doing the work. Maintenance had not
been carried out since September 2016.

13. PESTECH HOLDING
•Driving Innovation
48 Hillview Terrace, #06-08A, Singapore 669269
Tel: +65 6765 6165 Fax: +65 6765 8165 Email: support@pestechholding.com Web: www.pestechholding.com

14. Traditional Rodent Management
Need 2 staff to install Glue traps after working hours
Place traps in locations where there are rat droppings
Process of Site Inspection
2 man operation for safety
Travel to site 30 mins
Organise site 20 mins
Setup ladder, climb up, inspect, climb down & move
another trap location 10 mins / glue trap
For 30 traps site 300 mins = 5 hours !
Travel back from site 30 mins
Total per site 6 hours 20 mins

15. Traditional Rodent Management
Reality of Site Inspection
Not every glue trap is checked
High staff turnover makes trap location information
handover a challenge to maintain
Actual Inspection record update and maintain not
accurate
Rat caught not known until there is complain of smell by
Restaurant staff
Need to use IoT Technologies to support customer better
as such incidences can affect businesses or be shut
down by authorities

16. Introduction of RodentEye System

17. RodentEye Deployment Strategy
The PIR Sensor Activity site heat map is shared by Customer, Pestech and Pest Management
Company to be transparent about the effectiveness of the Pest Control programme
Site survey to identify Deployment strategy
Deploy Sensors in various locations
Monitor for High Activity locations
Deploy video cameras to validate the presence of rodents, then use Video Analytics to scan for
Rodents automatically
Strategically place Sensor Traps in High Activity locations
Monitor for Sensor Trap activations and High Activity locations
Rodent Activities must drop
Continue to monitor even the low activity locations, as rodents might change travelling paths

18. Site Activity Heat Map between June and July
Date of activity - 2017-06-17 to 2017-06-23

19. RodentEye : Video Recording Validation using Video Analytics
Moving Object
Detection
Time : 12:44
Duration : 8.4 s
Rodents : 2
Object#1
Object#2

20. y = 7x + 7
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5
10
15
20
25
30
July Aug Sept
Cumulative Number of Rats Caught
%Triggers
Ratscaught
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5000
10000
15000
20000
25000
30000
35000
40000
June July Aug Sept Oct
Total Number of Triggers (L1,L2,L3) per month
Place RodentEye Sensor Traps only on high activity areas
Sensor Trap triggers staff to remove trapped Rodent
OutcomeMonitor
100
50
0
Outcome based Business Model

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