HabiTrak: low-cost, wireless home cage health and activity monitoring.

HabiTrak：低成本、无线家庭笼子健康和活动监控。

基本信息

批准号：
10201441
负责人：
Andrew Michael Sloan
金额：
$ 78.06万
依托单位：
VULINTUS, LLC
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2018
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2018-09-19 至 2023-05-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10201441
关键词：
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项目摘要

Project Abstract Currently available commercial systems for automated home cage health and behavioral monitoring of small animal research models are typically expensive and do not work universally with researchers’ existing vivarium cage systems. Under this Phase II SBIR project, Vulintus, Inc. will continue to develop and validate “HabiTrak”, a miniature low-cost, wireless device for continuously monitoring small animal health and activity inside any standard commercial home cage. The HabiTrak design leverages recent advances in sensor miniaturization to combine a suite of thermographic and environmental sensors in a small, robust package designed to be placed wirelessly inside the home cage. Vulintus’ Phase II activities include finalization of the hardware design and development of an interactive online ecosystem for real-time access to HabiTrak data. Concurrently, HabiTrak will undergo beta testing in three diverse biomedical research studies at Drexel University, the University of Colorado Boulder, and the University of Texas at Dallas. Beta testing will help to establish the accuracy and utility of HabiTrak measurements, and guide the development of protocols for how HabiTrak can be most easily deployed into existing research institutions. At the conclusion of this Phase II, a fully developed HabiTrak system will provide researchers and vivariums with an unprecedented window into their animals’ health and activity, particularly for models requiring intensive supervision, and will help to identify and control for nuisance factors that may obscure significant discoveries.

项目摘要目前可用的自动化家庭笼子健康和行为商业系统小动物研究模型的监测通常非常昂贵并且不能普遍有效与研究人员现有的饲养笼系统一起，在第二阶段 SBIR 项目中，Vulintus， Inc. 将继续开发和验证“HabiTrak”，这是一种微型低成本无线设备，适用于持续监测任何标准商业住宅内的小动物健康和活动 HabiTrak 设计利用传感器小型化的最新进展，将一套热成像和环境传感器，采用小型、坚固的封装，设计用于 Vulintus 的第二阶段活动包括无线放置在家里的笼子里。交互式在线生态系统的硬件设计和开发，用于实时访问 HabiTrak 数据同时将在三个不同的生物医学领域进行 Beta 测试。在德雷克塞尔大学、科罗拉多大学博尔德分校和科罗拉多大学进行研究德克萨斯州达拉斯的 Beta 测试将有助于确定 HabiTrak 的准确性和实用性。测量，并指导 HabiTrak 如何最轻松地进行协议的开发在第二阶段结束时，部署到现有的研究机构中。 HabiTrak 系统将为研究人员和动物园提供前所未有的窗口他们的动物的健康和活动，特别是需要严格监督的模型，并将帮助识别和控制可能掩盖重大发现的干扰因素。