Value added pest control system with smart learning

• US 10,152,035 B2
• Filed: 04/12/2017
• Issued: 12/11/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 04/12/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Discovery Purchaser Corp. (Discovery Guarantor 2 Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Bayer AG
• Inventors: Reid, Byron, Gutsmann, Volker, Zimmermann, Michael, Pienaar, Chris, Fages, Gaelle, Jardine, Peter
• Primary Examiner(s): Lin, Jason
• Application Number:
  US15/485,838
• Publication Number:
  US 20180299842A1
• Time in Patent Office: 608 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: A01M 1/00 Stationary means for catching or killing insects
• CPC Class Codes: A01M 1/026 combined with devices for monitoring insect presence, e.g. termites bait stations A01M1/2005; detecting other animals in a given area A01M31/002
• CPC Class Codes: A01M 1/20 Poisoning, narcotising, or burning insects fumigation apparatus A01M13/00
• CPC Class Codes: A01M 23/00 Traps for animals
• CPC Class Codes: A01M 25/00 Devices for dispensing poison for animals A01M27/00 takes precedence; for insects A01M1/20
• CPC Class Codes: A01M 31/002 Detecting animals in a given area
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 13/0275 using fuzzy logic only
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/025 for remote control or remote monitoring of applications

Abstract

The instant disclosure provides an ability to use an array of data inputs to enter a network and thereby provide a realtime improvable database. The present invention is novel in its ability to maximize the customer'"'"'s interface with a pest control system, thus allowing for maximum efficiency for current and future designs as well as a high level of compatibility with ancillary regulatory, financial and planning type functions.

Claims

1. An integrated digitized pest control management system comprising:

a computer and/or cloud-based network that is adapted to receive multiple data sources and process data therefrom and thereby to create a database;

at least one location specific pest control platform adapted to send and receive data,

wherein said location specific criteria is based at least in part on a risk profile of said location, said platform comprising one or more mechanisms for pest control at said location;

one or more external sensors that collect data external to said pest control platform, said external data comprising one or more of atmospheric conditions, pest populations, human interaction with said location or third party data correlated to predicting likelihood of pests at said location, wherein said database creates a recommended protocol for arrangement for said one or more mechanisms for pest management based on the inputted risk profile of said location and machine learning developed by said database utilizing live data received by said computer as well as historical data from said location, and, further wherein said database continues to collect and integrate new data such that at any given time a recommended protocol for arrangement of said one or more mechanisms is updated on a real time basis, and wherein placement of said one or more mechanisms is increased, decreased or repositioned based on the recommended protocol.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein said location specific pest control platform comprises one or more pesticide applicator devices having an ability to be connected to a network.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein said one or more mechanisms comprising a pest control agent delivery protocol, wherein said pest control agent delivery protocol comprises:

a portable device.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein said pest control platform comprises a remote monitoring device with at least one sensor including a trap.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein said remote monitoring device with at least one sensor comprises:

a base comprising a distal end and a proximal end,

a two mode switch comprising a first metallic element and a second metallic element, and a signal unit,

wherein the first metallic element and the second metallic element are electrically separated at the distal end of the base and electrically connected with the signal unit at the proximal end of the base, thereby forming an open circuit, wherein, when the first metallic element contacting the second metallic element, thereby forming a closed circuit, such that the signal unit transmits a signal to an off-site receiver.

6. The system of claim 1 whereby said database uses said live and historical data from locations other than said location to prepare recommended protocol for arrangement for said one or more mechanisms for pest management.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein said location specific pest control platform monitors presence of a pest and identity thereof and data regarding the presence and identity is processed by said database to create instructions to said platform to achieve optimal performance in minimizing impact of said pest.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein said location specific data includes identification of type and/or number of a pest invading said location.

9. A method for simultaneously monitoring and treating a location against pests comprising:

providing a computer and/or cloud based network that is adapted to receive multiple data sources and process data therefrom and thereby to create a database;

inputting location specific criteria including a risk profile associated with said location to create a location specific platform comprising one or more mechanisms for pest control at said location,

inputting data from one or more external sensors that collect data external to said pest control platform, said external data comprising one or more of atmospheric conditions, pest populations, human interaction with said location or third party data correlated to predicting likelihood of pests at said location, wherein said database creates a recommended protocol for arrangement for said one or more mechanisms for pest management based on an inputted risk profile of said location and machine learning developed by said database utilizing live data received by said computer as well as historical data from said location, and further wherein said database continues to collect and integrate new data such that at any given time a recommended protocol for arrangement of said one or more mechanisms is updated on a real time basis, and wherein placement of said one or more mechanisms is increased, decreased or repositioned based on the recommended protocol.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein said location specific pest control platform comprises a pesticide applicator.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein said pesticide applicator comprises:

a portable device.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein said one or more mechanisms comprising remote monitoring device, and wherein said remote monitoring device comprises a two mode sensor.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the two mode sensor comprises:

a base comprising a distal end and a proximal end,

a two mode switch comprising a first metallic element and a second metallic element, and

a signal unit,

wherein the first metallic element and the second metallic element are electrically separated at the distal end of the base and electrically connected with the signal unit at the proximal end of the base, thereby forming an open circuit,

wherein, when the first metallic element contacting the second metallic element, thereby forming a closed circuit, such that the signal unit transmits a signal to an off-site receiver.