SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY DETECTING THE PRESENCE OF CAGES IN THE SHELF OF A FACILITY

摘要

The present invention relates to a system for automatically detecting the presence of a cage or tray for containing laboratory animals in a specific position of a facility shelf and to a method for managing the data relating to the cage, implemented by means of said system, particularly advantageous for the laboratory technician. In particular, the present invention relates to a system (1) composed of a shelf (20) comprising a plurality of devices (23) designed to detect the position in the facility and the ID of a cage (30), a central control unit (73) designed to process, through software, the information received in order to offer the operator the possibility of tracking and managing, by means of a database, the whole facility. Numerous other functions of the system are included in the present invention, such as the function designed to detect and notify, visually or through the software, the correct positioning of a cage in the shelf.

主权项

1. A system for inventory, position tracking, and management of information relating to animal housing cages for housing laboratory animals, comprising:
a shelf defining a plurality of cage seats for receiving the animal housing cages, each of said cage seats comprising an RFiD reader; one or more animal housing cages, each of said one or more animal housing cages having a cover; an RFiD TAG associated to said cover of said one or more animal housing cages; a data collection and management computing device for managing data collected by said RFiD reader; wherein the data collection and management computing device is configured to automatically detect the information associated to the RFiD TAG of a cage of the one or more animal housing cages when the cage is inserted in one of said cage seats of said shelf.