WEDGE

The Mini Wedge will work in any external plastic rat box. The Mini Wedge inside the speed-break tunnel, rat boxes, and in the Smarttrap Mouse Box are very resistant to knocks and bangs and will only transmit if the trap is tripped.

Pull-plate Wedge for use on internal or external cages. Allows live trapping of foxes, squirrels, ferrell cats, pigeons, etc. Works with any trap which has a moving arm.

BASE STATION

The LED Base Station (orange unit) displays a Pest Alert by flashing two LEDs. The ID Base Stations (blue unit) displays the ID number of the Wedge that has tripped. When the pest technician arrives on-site they power down the ID Base Station and when they power it up again the ID numbers of the Wedges that have tripped are displayed.

The two Base Stations can work as independent units, but if one or more Base Stations (with the same system code) are in radio range of each other they will automatically set up a network. This extends the radio detection range of the Wedge system to accommodate large buildings. When a Base Station in a network detects a Wedge signal it retransmits the ID number around the network so the ID Base Station in the network can record the ID number of the Wedge that has tripped.

Pest Alerts from a protected building are sent by text message from the GSM Unit that is inside one of the Base Stations (only one GSM Unit is required in a system). A GSM Unit is a mobile phone without a keyboard and without a display and requires a 2G SIM card. The GSM Unit is programmed by text message. Pest Alerts and other warning messages are sent from the GSM Unit to the pest technician’s mobile phone or the Traptec Dashboard in the cloud.

The Dashboard is where pest control companies can have password-protected access to data on all of their monitored properties including date and time records of pest alerts, heartbeat messages, system reset messages, etc sent from the GSM Units. This data can prove the integrity of the system to an Environmental Health Officer.

The Traptec system can be installed in a large building by one technician, the only configuration required is send one text message to the SIM Card number in the GSM Unit to tell it where to send pest alerts and other messages to.