Skeeter score: smart home mosquito monitoring solution

Overview

Skeeter Score is an innovative smart home solution designed to monitor and control mosquito populations using a gamified mobile app. This solution provides homeowners with predictive and prescriptive insights to maintain a mosquito-free environment. The app resembles a credit score system that rewards users for effective mosquito control, encouraging proactive measures and community participation. By leveraging data from multiple users, Skeeter Score enables wide-area monitoring and contributes to regional insect control efforts.

Technical specifications

Key features:

• Gamified mobile app incentivizes mosquito control by rewarding high scores
• Predictive analytics provide insights on mosquito population trends and necessary interventions
• Optical counting system under development for accurate mosquito identification and quantification
• Integration with smart home systems for real-time monitoring and consumable management
• Community data sharing enhances regional mosquito management efforts

Development plans:

• Cost-effective optical counting system utilizing image recognition and light sensors
• Trap design evaluation through controlled laboratory trials
• Pilot testing of prototypes in diverse geographical areas to gather real-world data

Technology readiness level

Skeeter Score is currently at Technology Readiness Level 4, with ongoing efforts to develop and optimize the optical counting system and validate the trap design through laboratory trials. Future phases will focus on refining the data collection algorithms and developing the user interface for the mobile app.