Wildlife Capture Unit with Environmental Maintenance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional wildlife capture systems often cause injuries to captured animals and lack provisions for maintaining their health and well-being, such as heating, ventilation, air conditioning, food, and water.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for humane capture, maintenance, and release of wildlife that includes a wildlife capture unit capable of transmitting capture notifications and managing environmental conditions within a containment unit to sustain the animal, featuring a capture unit with a containment area, environmental maintenance system, communications system, and animal detection device to ensure the animal's comfort until release.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If conventional cages and traps are used for wildlife capture, then capture effectiveness is improved, but animal welfare deteriorates due to injuries caused to captured wildlife
Solution Approach 1:
The capture system is divided into separate functional modules: a capture mechanism for securing the animal, and a maintenance unit with environmental controls for post-capture care. This segmentation allows the capture function to remain effective while the animal is transferred to a humane environment that prevents injuries and provides necessary resources.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary containment structure that serves as a transition zone between capture and release. This intermediate unit provides environmental controls (heating, ventilation, air conditioning) and resources (food, water) that protect the animal during the period between capture and release, preventing the harmful effects of conventional direct release or prolonged confinement.
2Device complexity
If conventional traps without resources are used, then device complexity is reduced, but animal welfare deteriorates due to lack of heating, ventilation, air conditioning, food, and water
Solution Approach 1:
The maintenance unit is designed as a multi-functional system that integrates heating, ventilation, air conditioning, food provision, and water provision into a single contained environment. This universal approach allows one device to address multiple welfare needs simultaneously, managing complexity through functional integration rather than separate systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The system incorporates automatic resource delivery mechanisms where food and water are provided to the captured animal without requiring continuous human intervention. Environmental controls are managed automatically to maintain appropriate conditions, allowing the system to sustain the animal independently until release.
3Device complexity
If manual monitoring of captured animals is used, then device complexity is minimized, but loss of time increases due to lack of real-time capture notifications
Solution Approach 1:
The system incorporates an automatic notification mechanism that provides immediate feedback when an animal is captured. This feedback loop eliminates the need for continuous manual monitoring while ensuring timely awareness of capture events, allowing rapid response without requiring constant human observation of the trap.
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AI summary
A method for humane capture, maintenance, and release of wildlife includes capturing, by a wildlife capture unit, a wild animal in a wildlife containment unit. The method includes transmitting, by the wildlife capture unit, to a remote communications device, a notification of the capture of the wild animal. The method includes modifying, by the wildlife capture unit, an environmental condition of a wildlife containment unit to sustain the wild animal.