Bed bug monitoring furniture leg
AssigneeLuteiden Torjunta Helle Oy
InventorsVertti SARIMAA, Aku VISKARI, Martim GOIS
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Abstract
A monitoring device for insects such as bed bugs comprising: an elongated member constituting a furniture leg, wherein said elongated member comprises: a space inside the elongated member comprising a trap for insects, at least one opening in the leg wherein insects may enter the trap, the opening being connected to the trap by pathway that is inclined and slippery such that the bed bugs entering the opening slide to the trap. Corresponding arrangement and method for bed bug monitoring are also presented.
Claims13
A monitoring device for insects, such as bed bugs, comprising:
- an elongated member constituting a furniture leg, wherein said elongated member comprises:
- a space inside the elongated member comprising a trap for insects,
- at least one opening in the elongated member wherein insects may enter the trap,
- the opening being connected to the trap by a pathway that is inclined and slippery such that the bed bugs entering the opening slide to the trap.
An arrangement for monitoring insects, such as bed bugs, comprising:
- at least one bed bug monitoring device, comprising means to detect bed bugs, said monitoring device being situated as a leg of a piece of furniture;
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- a communication module, comprising means to obtain detection signals from said bed bug monitoring device and further to send said detection signals towards a remote entity.
A method for monitoring bed bugs comprising:
- attaching a bed bug monitoring device as a leg of a piece of furniture, such as that bed bugs cannot travel along said leg to or from the piece of furniture without being trapped in said monitoring device,
- detecting the bed bugs traveling to or caught in the monitoring device,
- sending data or a signal representing information about the detected bed bugs towards a remote device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.