Title
Ai Enabled Iort Framework For Rodent Activity Monitoring In A False Ceiling Environment
Abstract
Routine rodent inspection is essential to curbing rat-borne diseases and infrastructure damages within the built environment. Rodents find false ceilings to be a perfect spot to seek shelter and construct their habitats. However, a manual false ceiling inspection for rodents is laborious and risky. This work presents an AI-enabled IoRT framework for rodent activity monitoring inside a false ceiling using an in-house developed robot called "Falcon". The IoRT serves as a bridge between the users and the robots, through which seamless information sharing takes place. The shared images by the robots are inspected through a Faster RCNN ResNet 101 object detection algorithm, which is used to automatically detect the signs of rodent inside a false ceiling. The efficiency of the rodent activity detection algorithm was tested in a real-world false ceiling environment, and detection accuracy was evaluated with the standard performance metrics. The experimental results indicate that the algorithm detects rodent signs and 3D-printed rodents with a good confidence level.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.3390/s21165326
SENSORS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
rodent detection, faster RCNN, deep learning, object detection, IoRT, inspection robot
Journal
21
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
16
1424-8220
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
8