A trap with a near-field communication device
AssigneeCamro A/S
InventorKurt Sorensen
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Abstract
The present invention relates to the use of near-field communication for retrieving and/or transmitting information to and/or from a rechargeable rodent trap, with a spring driven and/or gas pressure driven killing means to a handheld computer, such as a smartphone or tablet, wherein said information comprises data about the number of activations of said killing means, preferably time stamped, and identification number of said trap.
Claims10
A method of using near-field communication for retrieving and/or transmitting information to and/or from a rechargeable rodent trap, with a spring driven and/or gas pressure driven killing means to a handheld computer, wherein said information comprises data about a number of activations of said killing means and an identification number of said trap.
A rechargeable trap (100) comprising:
- a housing with an entrance (110) leading to a kill zone chamber (170);
- a spring driven and/or gas pressure driven killing means (180) adapted for operating within said kill zone chamber (170);
- a trigger mechanism (120) adapted to activate said killing means (180);
- a sensor unit configured for determining a number of kills by monitoring a number of triggers of the killing means;
- at least one control unit (150) connected to said sensor unit, wherein said control unit (150) comprises at least one data collection device adapted to collect measurement data acquired from said sensor unit;
- wherein said control unit (150) further comprises at least one wireless near-field communication device (152) adapted to transmit measurement data about a number of activations of said killing means (180), wherein each activation is time stamped, and an identification number of said trap.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.