Ecological mousetrap
- Type Grupo operativo
- Execution 2017
- Assigned Budget 49.495,00 €
- Scope Autonómico
- Autonomous community Galicia
- Main source of financing PEPAC 2014-2020
This Task Force seeks to structure an autonomous and self-sustaining robot that will patrol within the programmed limits. It will emit signals that will attract mice to its interior, where it will be supplied with a concentrated ozone atmosphere for a certain time, after which the mouse will be released and will flee with pain in the respiratory system, which will cause its death far from the robot, which will be prepared for the next visit.
The team will have a solar charging system, patrol at night and document the visits received. Farms and agricultural producers will stop using pesticides and reduce their expenses, improve harvesting and become healthier. The water will not be contaminated since there will be no forgotten pesticides that end up integrating not only into the water chain. This can be shared by several farms and will contribute to having quality, pesticide-free products in Galicia.