Building Pest Control Apparatus with Environmental Monitoring
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional pest control methods require evacuating buildings during treatment, as higher doses are needed to ensure effectiveness, leading to inconvenience and inability for continuous protection.
Innovation Solution
An apparatus that monitors environmental conditions to optimize the dosage of a treatment agent, such as ozone, below safety thresholds, allowing continuous protection and habitation during treatment, using a model to adjust for environmental and physical factors affecting the agent's concentration and decay.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a higher dose of treatment agent is applied to ensure complete effectiveness against pests, then pest control effectiveness is improved, but the safety threshold for habitation is exceeded requiring building evacuation
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts the treatment agent dosage based on real-time environmental conditions (temperature, humidity, pressure) monitored by sensors. The treatment controller continuously modifies the administered amount to maintain effectiveness against pests while ensuring the dose remains below the safety threshold for building habitation, eliminating the need for evacuation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the dosage parameter of the treatment agent based on environmental conditions. By monitoring temperature, humidity, and pressure, the treatment controller adjusts the amount of treatment agent administered to optimize pest control effectiveness while maintaining safety levels for continuous habitation.
2Reliability
If a higher dose of treatment agent is applied to ensure complete effectiveness against pests, then pest control effectiveness is improved, but building evacuation is required causing inconvenience and interruption of continuous protection
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts the treatment agent dosage based on real-time environmental conditions (temperature, humidity, pressure) monitored by sensors. The treatment controller continuously modifies the administered amount to maintain effectiveness against pests while ensuring the dose remains below the safety threshold for building habitation, eliminating the need for evacuation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables continuous protection and treatment of buildings by adjusting doses to remain below safety thresholds. The monitor and treatment controller operate continuously to maintain effective pest control while allowing uninterrupted habitation, eliminating the need for periodic evacuations required by conventional methods.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If environmental conditions are monitored and used to control treatment agent dosage, then the dose can be optimized to remain below safety threshold, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses a feedback mechanism where the monitor continuously measures environmental conditions (temperature, humidity, pressure) and feeds this information to the treatment controller. The controller then adjusts the treatment agent dosage accordingly, creating a closed-loop system that automatically maintains safe and effective treatment levels without requiring complex manual intervention.
Solution Approach 2:
The system is self-regulating, using the monitor to detect environmental conditions and the treatment controller to automatically adjust dosage without external intervention. The apparatus monitors its own operating environment and self-adjusts the treatment agent administration to maintain optimal and safe levels.
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AI summary
There is provided an apparatus (1) and method for protecting a building (3) from pests or other nuisances in the vicinity of buildings. The apparatus (1) comprises a monitor (7) having the ability to acquire environmental condition information relating to environmental conditions in a vicinity of the building (3), and a treatment controller (9) which is capable of using the environmental condition information received from the monitor (7) to provide an amount of treatment agent which, for those environmental conditions, remains below a safety threshold for habitation of the building (3) and reduces a population of the pests. The present invention circumvents the need to evacuate inhabitants of the buildings before any treatment agent is administered to the ground lying therebeneath. Further, near-continuous protection and treatment of buildings is also possible.