EverSmart™ Rodent featured at Washington, DC rodent control academy
Dr. Bobby Corrigan speaks to its transformational power
WASHINGTON, July 10 – Microshare’s EverSmart™ Rodent remote monitoring product took center stage today in the nation’s capital as Dr. Bobby Corrigan, the event’s keynote speak and a renowned authority on urban rodent control, described the “transformation power of the data supplied by these sensors.”
Describing a two-year deployment of EverSmart™ technology in New York City buildings, sewers and other infrastructure, Corrigan said he’s been able to provide detailed data on the city’s rodent population, their movements, where they find food and harbor and – most importantly – how to kill them.
“The EverSmart sensor data means I have full reports on all of this now,” Dr. Corrigan says. “This just completely changes the way Pest Control should be working, assessing things with data instead of going around and checking traps. I mean, it’s just so much more effective and efficient.”
With New York and several other large cities mulling an expansion of the Microshare test bed, Dr. Corrigan recommended to the assembled municipal health officials that they, too, start deploying remote monitoring in their infrastructure.
“EverSmart gives all the information to the pest professional to focus, to really focus where their time is going to be spent,” he said in an interview. “So that customer gets the cost value nailed down because right now no one knows enough about pest control to challenge the old, inefficient ways.”
EverSmart™ Rodent 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. Easy to deploy and disruptively priced, EverSmart™ Rodent can be used in bait stations and traps, others independently mounted “outside-the-box” in spaces previously inaccessible to Pest Control equipment.
“The sensors give Pest Control professionals a uniquely granular view of rodent activity,” Dr. Corrigan said. All of that data assessed by Microshare’s AI-driven Platform to ensure maximum accuracy, weed out false positives and provide historical views for audit and regulatory purpose.
The DC Rodent and Vector Control Academy has attracted local media attention, including from the capital’s News Corp affiliate, Fox 5, and from DC’s number one news station, WTOP.
Watch WTOP’s coverage on YouTube here
“Traps and poison baits are about 20 percent of the picture,” Dr. Corrigan tells the assembled municipal health officials in 2024 as he leads them through a downtown park stalking their furry quarry. “If we could deny them food by doing our trash better, we could deny the [rodent] population from exploding.”
Back inside the academy, held at George Washington University, a good deal of the conversation focused on Integrated Pest Management (IPM) techniques, the cutting- edge methodology that all Pest Control operators aspire to. Dr. Corrigan, with a photo of an EverSmart™ sensor projected behind him, said: “If you’re not monitoring, you’re not doing IPM.”
The real message came down to data and the crucial role of monitoring. Dr. Corrigan’s emphasized why he believes sensors are the future and how the industry can evolve and embrace new ways to get resilient rodents under control. He stressed the need for leveraging technology while prioritizing prevention and exclusion strategies. Remote sensors, he said, whether inside a bait box or aimed at rodent transit points, “will be a standard part of the pest industry” in the future.
The academy, organized by the District of Columbia’s Department of Health, was attended by 80 public health leaders from around the country, including Baltimore, Chicago, NYC, Los Angeles, Seattle, Houston, Miami and Boston.