Tecniplast Digital Ventilated Caging (DVC)
Tecniplast Digital Ventilated Caging (DVC) offers the optimal combination of technology and individually ventilated cages. This scalable solution uses 24/7 home cage monitoring to improve animal welfare, increase vivarium efficiency, and enhanced biomedical research data. This tried-and-true solution utilizes washable and autoclavable non-invasive sensor plates mounted below the cage to detect animal behavior and cage conditions. No chipping or tagging required for this scalable solution to modernizing research vivariums.
Key Features & Benefits:
- Real-Time Digital Monitoring – Tracks key behavioral and environmental parameters like animal locomotion, bedding condition, flooding, animal welfare, temperature, humidity, light, human presence, sound, and vibration.
- Process Simplification - Detect low food, missing water bottles, and animal health issues and be alerted to these issues with the LED driven workflow.
- Enhanced Biosecurity – Limit interaction using remote monitoring technology and cage change notifications.
- Automated Data Collection – Collect and analyze real-time data such as animal locomotion, running wheel activity, and urination.
- Scalable and Energy Efficient – AI driven algorithm use data from the low power sensor array to determine animal and cage conditions.
Tecniplast Digital Ventilated Caging ensures optimal conditions for laboratory animals, enhancing research quality while streamlining facility operations.
Join the Smart Cage Revolution
The DVC® (Digital Ventilated Cage) system transforms traditional rodent housing into a powerful data-driven research tool. With continuous 24/7 monitoring of animal activity, flooding detection, bedding condition detection, food/water detection, welfare sensing capability and environmental conditions, DVC enables researchers and animal care staff to make informed decisions without disturbing the animals. Its non-intrusive design, real-time alerts, and seamless integration with facility workflows promote both animal welfare and operational efficiency. By joining the DVC revolution, institutions gain a scalable, smart infrastructure that supports reproducible science, enhanced welfare, and next-generation vivarium management.
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| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Product Name | DVC Digital Ventilated Cage |
| Compatible Caging | Tecniplast Green Line / Emerald Line / Iso Line |
| Monitoring Type | Non-intrusive 24-7 cage-level activity monitoring |
| Animal Welfare | Reduces animal handling supports 3Rs principles |
| Installation | Installed on new IVC Racks or Retrofittable to existing Tecniplast IVC systems |
| Facility Requirements | 115VAC & Ethernet w/ Proper Firewall Configuration |
| Welfare Detection | Cage Flooding / Fighting / Stress Behavior / Hypoactivity / Hyperactivity / and More! |
| Environment Detection | Temperature / Humidity / Noise / Vibration / Light Level / Human Presence at the Rack Level |
| Food / Water Detection | Yes low food detection and presence/absence of water detection. |
| Software Available | Operational and Analytics |
| Bedding Dirtiness Detection | Tunable algorithmic driven cage change capability reducing cage changes by >50% |
| Running Wheel | Detects speed and distance traveled in real time |
| Analytics Capabilities | Compare Cages / Align Timeframes / Heat Maps / Line Graphs / Histograms / Cage Visualizations |
| Real Time Alerts | Yes and Configurable |
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How Does DVC Work?
Advanced Scalable Technology
The DVC system utilizes a washable, autoclavable, capacitive sensor array that can detect animal locomotion and cage conditions. The sensor array is non-invasive and rests just below the cage. The system does not require chipping or tagging of animals and can interpret data at the cage level. Cages are RFID tracked so that data stays with the cage enhancing research and improving animal welfare and operational efficiency.
