US 12,262,703 B2
Pest detection
Anthony Robert Flint, Carindale (AU); Peter Kenyon Simpson, Red Hill (AU); and Ion Leslie Staunton, Pacific Pines (AU)
Assigned to PESENSE PTY LTD, Brisbane (AU)
Filed by PESENSE PTY LTD, Brisbane (AU)
Filed on Oct. 5, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/062,828.
Application 17/062,828 is a continuation of application No. 15/313,931, granted, now 10,798,932, previously published as PCT/AU2015/000316, filed on May 28, 2015.
Claims priority of application No. 2014902034 (AU), filed on May 28, 2014.
Prior Publication US 2021/0076656 A1, Mar. 18, 2021
Int. Cl. A01M 1/02 (2006.01); A01M 1/20 (2006.01); A01M 25/00 (2006.01); G01V 8/20 (2006.01); G06F 16/951 (2019.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01); H04W 88/08 (2009.01)
CPC A01M 1/026 (2013.01) [A01M 1/2011 (2013.01); A01M 25/004 (2013.01); G01V 8/20 (2013.01); G06F 16/951 (2019.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.02); H04W 84/12 (2013.01); H04W 88/08 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A pest monitor comprising a detector having one or more electronic sensors, an attractant, and one or more predefined target or targets associated with the one or more sensors, the one or more targets and one or more sensors being so made and arranged that pests interact with the one or more targets and thereby trigger the associated one or more sensors by a reflected signal from the one or more targets;
wherein the pests are termites and the one or more sensors comprise spaced IR transmitters and receivers and the one or more targets is termite generated to thereby provide an indirect indication of termite presence, the receivers relying on reflected light from the one or more targets, there being at least two separate transmitted signals and corresponding reflected signals used to indicate a positive detection, the monitor holding the attractant, the one or more targets being a termite closable opening, the one or more sensors being held in a housing operatively located in line with the closable opening, the transmitters and receivers being positioned within the housing in side by side configuration, the housing having spaced windows aligned with the transmitters and receivers for the purpose of transmission and reception of IR signals, the windows and sensors being positioned for collimation of the light passing through the windows.