ARLINGTON, Texas – VM Products announces the EZ Square Rat, a new, stand-alone Wi-Fi-enabled trap system that gives pest management professionals real-time alerts of rodent activity.
The snap trap alert system installs in about 60 seconds anywhere there’s a Wi-Fi connection or hotspot. EZ Square Rat provides online alerts when the snap trap has been deployed, giving pest professionals an immediate notification on a smart phone or tablet.
This technology represents a paradigm shift in the way that pest control firms control rodents, the company reports. Technicians will have instant information when there is a pest issue, whether it be a minor single-trap incident or multiple. Rather than checking every trap physically to see if there’s activity, technicians can focus on the other aspects of pest control they provide to their customers.
According to VM Products President and Founder Ethan Vickery, EZ Square Rat is the company’s second Electronic Rodent Monitoring (ERM) device, with more to come. VM Products paved the way with VM Now, a platform technology system developed to support large food processing accounts. EZ Square Rat is designed for all accounts.
“EZ Square Rat helps technicians by giving them the ability to manage accounts differently by using critical real-time data,” said Vickery. “It also drops into hard-to-reach locations, so it makes working in difficult situations easier.”
While performance is what the product delivers, technology is the cornerstone of EZ Square Rat’s development.
“EZ Square Rat combines a traditional trap with innovation from the Internet of Things (IoT),” said Vickery. “VM Products is developing the next generation of rodent control solutions that will help increase performance through better technology.”
Powered by a two-year battery, EZ Square Rat delivers daily keep-alive and online alerts. The system is an end-to-end solution that includes the snap trap hardware, the software component and a mobile application. Pest technicians use the mobile or tablet application during installation to add traps to a system and to receive push notifications.
Once installed, the EZ Square Rat trap system provides data via Wi-Fi routers to an Internet server, where data is stored until it is pushed to pest professionals via smart phone or tablet application or a desktop web management portal.
“The EZ Square is the opportunity for early detection, permanent monitoring and dynamic cleanouts,” said Vickery. “ERM products like EZ Square Rat give pest control technicians the opportunity to identify and treat rodent activity before they grow into infestations.”\
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