Agriculture · Frontier
Nocturnal Rodent & Pest Infestation Detection
Counts the rats in the feed room while you sleep.
Plausible physics, early work — shown honestly as an experiment.
How it works
Rats are small, but at night the store is dead still — so their quick, darting movements stand out clearly against the silence. Each burst is logged with its spot and time. Over weeks, that becomes a map of runs and likely nest zones, and a number for how bad the problem is.
In the physics: A small mammal is a fast, low-cross-section scatterer producing brief high-velocity micro-Doppler transients at hours and locations where livestock are absent — a spatiotemporal anomaly the manifold has never seen in the 'empty at night' baseline.
See it work
This is real pipeline output for Agriculture, replayed. The exact reading depends on your room.
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How the field becomes an answer
How we prove it
Own-hardware in a feed room vs infrared trail cameras and bait-take logs; reuse machine-vs-human/small-vs-large scatterer discrimination already proven to separate motion classes.
Who it is for
'PestRadar' — infestation-pressure dashboard and hotspot map for grain/feed store operators; targets baiting instead of blanket rodenticide.
runtime Runs today in LatentField 2.0 as intrusion
The matching solution
Complete first-room estimateBarn Activity Node3 nodes · ~$130 parts · 90 min Request kit, subscribe, or set up →Compatible DIY hardware options
60 min · intermediate
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