Cellular cameras are emerging as a game-changing tool for professional pest management companies. These innovative, inexpensive devices can transform how commercial operations monitor, detect, and respond to pest infestations, and offer unprecedented efficiency and real-time insights. This blog explores how cellular cameras work, their advantages over traditional pest monitoring methods, and how solutions like AwareX by Tactacam empower pest control professionals to better serve their clients.
How Cellular Cameras Work
Cellular cameras for pest monitoring combine advanced imaging technology with wireless connectivity to provide real-time surveillance of pest activity. Devices like the AwareX include:
- High-resolution cameras with night vision capabilities
- Motion sensors to trigger image capture
- Built-in cellular data transmission
- Rechargeable batteries or solar power systems
- Weather-resistant housings for outdoor use
When set up in an area with pest activity, the animal’s movement triggers a motion sensor, causing the camera to capture images or video footage. The images and video are then sent via cellular networks to a smartphone app or web portal.
Benefits Over Traditional Methods
Cellular cameras represent a leap in efficiency and effectiveness when compared to conventional pest monitoring techniques:
Real-time monitoring: Cellular cameras use motion sensors and push notifications to tell you when pests are detected–no more need to set and check traps. This gives pest professionals the ability to respond quickly to emerging infestations and lets even small pest-control companies serve multiple clients effectively.
Fewer site visits: Cellular cameras are like a set of eyes in the field, and can virtually eliminate the need for site inspections. Instead of regular visits to customers, the cameras can do the hard work of monitoring for the presence of pests, allowing pest control companies to focus their efforts on locations with confirmed pest activity.
Continuous surveillance: Cellular cameras work 24/7, and their built-in infrared flash lets them operate both at night and in places with little or no light such as basements and attics. Pair those abilities with long-lasting batteries and the option of solar power, and pest control companies can go weeks or longer between site visits.
Data-driven decision making: Stop guessing about what pests are present, when they are active, or where they are coming from and heading. Cellular surveillance cameras can gather and report a huge amount of data to power fast, decisive decision-making.
Minimal disruption: Cameras like the AwareX are small and unobtrusive, meaning clients may never even know they are hard at work. And with long-lasting batteries, you won’t have to make frequent site visits to check on clients.
How to Use Cellular Cameras for Commercial Pest Control
Cellular pest management cameras can be used almost anywhere there is a pest problem:
- Commercial properties: Place cameras in warehouses, restaurants, food processing facilities, and hard-to-reach areas or sensitive zones.
- Agricultural settings: Place cameras to monitor crops, pastures, coops, barns, dairies, stables, and water sources.
- Research and conservation: Use cameras to study insect behavior and animal populations, and do so without disturbing natural habitats.
- Pest control: Place cameras in sewers, subways, attics, basements, alleys, and other similar locations.
AwareX by Tactacam
The AwareX camera from Tactacam offers professional pest management companies a powerful solution for pest surveillance. AwareX uses automatic cellular connectivity, motion activation image capture, and a leading app to provide a time-saving, cost-effective commercial pest management tool.