Microshare’s EverSmart Rodent NYC pilot in the spotlight at PestWorld 2024
DENVER, Oct 24 – Microshare’s transformational EverSmart Rodent remote monitoring system was in the spotlight today at the world’s largest and most influential Pest Control industry conference, highlighted in Wednesday’s keynote speech by renowed rodentologist Dr. Bobby Corrigan.
Speaking to a standing-room-only audience of Pest Control owners and professionals, Dr. Bobby, as he is universally known, showed a slide entitled “Microshare’s EverSmart Rodent sensors” to demonstrate the power of remote monitoring as a means of curbing rodent infestations. Speaking of an extensive survey of the rodent population in New York City, Dr. Corrigan meets regularly with NYC health and safety officials.: “What do we know about populations?” he was asked by NYC Mayor Eric Adams. Dr. Corrigan said “I’ll have full reports for you now. It used to be we’d have to see what we can get together and put together. Now, we’ve been working with a company, Microshare remote sensors. … We’re getting great results. We’re putting these [sensors] all over the place.'”
EverSmart Rodent, Microshare’s remote monitoring system for Pest Control, is an enterprise level solution for large deployments like cities or industries like food production, warehousing, retail or hospitality – places where even a single rodent can be a legal or political event. By deploying occupancy sensors in the field, some in bait stations and traps, others independently mounted, Pest Control professionals get a uniquely granular view of rodent activity, all of it assessed by Microshare’s EverSmart Alert Platform to ensure maximum accuracy and weed out false positives.
Dr. Corrigan’s keynote speech, “In a Perfect World: Designing a Rat Free City,” was delivered at the main auditorium of the Gaylord Rockies resort, site of the PestWorld 2024 conference. Some 4,000 Pest Control Operators, owners, entomologists and industry executives attend PestWorld each year from around the world.
On Thursday morning, Microshare hosted a breakfast with some of the industry’s largest players in Europe and North America to highlight a nine-week case study in two busy, rodent-plagued Philadelphia sites. The study, done with Aardvark Pest Management, reduced rodent activity by 56 percent and 39 percent respectively. Among those attending were key executives from Orkin, FSS, BASF, Adams, Veseris and a host of other top 50 global players.
“It’s one thing to tell people how effective and revolutionary your product is; It’s quite another to have the industry’s leading scientist deploy them at scale in a tough place like New York City and then rave about them in front of the industry’s most important event,” says Microshare CMO Michael Moran. “We’re a relatively new entrant in the North American Pest Control market, and an awful lot of people have been Googling “Microshare” this week.”
Dr. Corrigan, who earlier this month joined Microshare’s Board of Advisors, is a scientist with a global footprint that specializes in urban rodentology. He has serves as an advisor to cities nationally and internationally as well as large food corporations and urban transportation entities. The EverSmart Rodent sensors he showed are involved in urgent pilots in several major urban centers aimed at fighting out-of-control infestations.
“If you’re not monitoring when you’re trying to control pest populations, you’re not fully practicing Integrated Pest Management. Furthermore, remote monitoring is a technology breakthrough for analyzing monitoring data with pin-point accuracy”, he told a 2024 Rat Summit convened by New York City’s Department of Health.
Dr. Bobby Corrigan delivers his keynote at PestWorld 2024 in Denver, Colorado.