AI-Powered Smart Trap and Pest Monitoring Platform for Residential, Lawn, and Garden Use

Overview

Insect Track Solutions has developed an AI-enabled pest monitoring platform that combines computer vision, connected Smart Traps, and a digital interface. The Smart Trap automatically captures images of insects collected on a sticky surface and transmits them for AI-assisted identification and monitoring. This reduces the need for manual scouting while providing continuous insight into pest presence and activity over time. The platform is being adapted from its agricultural monitoring roots to address residential, lawn, and garden pests. The adapted solution is intended to support earlier detection and more informed, targeted pest management decisions in these environments. The company is seeking co-development partners with consumer product, testing, manufacturing, and market access expertise to adapt, validate, and pilot the platform.

Technical specifications

Core platform:

• Automated Smart Trap with integrated imaging captures insect images on sticky surfaces.
• Connectivity enables remote image transmission to the monitoring platform.
• AI/computer vision models identify detected pests from images.
• Digital interface supports remote monitoring, activity tracking, and user-facing alerts and management information.

Adaptation program for residential, lawn, and garden use:

• Optimization of Smart Trap hardware and imaging for target household, lawn, and garden pests.
• Standardized image-collection protocols to build a curated target-pest image database.
• Training and validation of AI models for target-pest detection and identification.
• Performance evaluation against expert identification and conventional monitoring methods, covering accuracy, false detections, reliability, and device performance.
• Integration of validated outputs into a consumer-oriented interface.
• Controlled and relevant-environment testing to support development of commercial pilot requirements.

Expertise: The team spans entomology, integrated pest management, AI/software, and hardware engineering.

Technology readiness level

The core Smart Trap and AI monitoring platform already exists and is being tested in relevant outdoor environments. The current program focuses on adapting and validating the technology for residential, lawn, and garden pest applications. The proposed phased approach includes defining priority pests and requirements, adapting the hardware and imaging system, building and validating the image dataset and AI models, and conducting controlled and relevant-environment trials. This work is intended to identify hardware, software, manufacturing, and regulatory requirements needed to move toward a commercial pilot.