In the Netherlands , rat toxicant has been blackball for outside utilization as pest mastery since 2018 . Soon , a European ban on the manipulation of this poison will keep up . The dirty dog and mouse nuisance , however , threatens to only increase in the coming years .

That is what the Dutch Animal Infestation Knowledge and Advice Centre report in 2019 . Time to get old - fashioned mousetraps out of warehousing . For those who do not have these or require to bribe fresh ones , Dimo Systems has designed a gamy - tech trap play - the Xignal .

The trap ’s design remains simple . The economic consumption of software and a consecrate on-line chopine is something unexampled to the relatively schematic pest ascendance sector . We asked Peter Mouthaan , Dimo Systems ' General Manager , why a trap play needs software system such as this .

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" Say you have a mousetrap in your shed . It is easy enough to check it every day , " says Peter . " But for a with child company , they often have hundred of them . Then it is no longer so easy to check for catch rats and mice every day . The Xignal trap play utter a signaling if a gnawer gets catch . This is charge to your speech sound , computer or tablet . you may see precisely when the rat was trapped so you may then quickly clear and quick the trap anew . That is also more hygienic . In ceremonious traps , a mouse or rat could still often be trapped , beat , for a hebdomad . That draw in other pests . "

Dimo Systems sell these high - tech rodent trap in two sizing . They do not only work by emit a sign to the controller . They also utilise a perfume loge to entice pests . " That is more hygienical than using the old - fashioned block of cheese too . It does not go moldy either . We do n’t have just these traps , but several other sensing element answer too , with which you first settle the pest , and then you’re able to buy the traps . "

The Coronavirus outbreak piss Peter consider the use of these traps as more necessary than ever . " eatery and other businesses are closed . These beast are more of a problem now since there are no mass there to frighten them off . They have devoid rein in these closed businesses . We also want to prevent people from having to call an exterminator . That would mean too much close contact , considering the social distancing we must observe now . "

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" These critter do not only plague restaurants . We have point out that everyone in the yield and vegetable sphere is affected - from vegetable central processor and compact facilities to potato farmers ' storage areas and wholesale warehouses . All the while businesses can no longer use poison , " concludes Peter .

For more information : Dimo Systems BVMarleen Coopmans10 Rondgang5311 PB , Gameren , NLTel : +31 ( 0 ) 885 300 400Mob : +31 ( 0 ) 682 949 868Email:[email   protected]Website : www.dimosystems.com

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