Soon the end of rats in apartments and houses? The company Rentokil has developed a facial recognition system dedicated to rats. The cameras could thus follow the habits of the pests to better eradicate them, reports the guardian.
Surveillance technology is already being tested in homes, but also in offices or food businesses. Specifically, the facial recognition system makes it possible to know the behavior of each rodent and provide an analysis in real time: where it sleeps, feeds or moves. A central command center at Rentokil, with the help of the system, decides where and how to kill these rats.
Isolate each rodent
“With facial recognition technology, you can see that one rat behaved differently from another,” Rentokil chief executive Andy Ransom told Reuters. financial times. It promises to detect the rodents that cause the most damage in the same place.
To develop this tool, Rentokil has partnered with the British operator Vodafone. Eventually, with the development of such technology, Rentokil is targeting countries that may experience a pest population boom, such as China, India and Indonesia.
“If you can identify the cities that are going to experience a massive increase in population, you can imagine that they are going to have significant rodent problems,” analyzes Rentokil’s CEO.
Source: BFM TV
