The decision support solution for urban rat management
SECU-RAT CONNECT revolutionizes ethical rodent population management.
Designed to go beyond reactive approaches, the solution aims to anticipate rather than react, providing communities and managers with specific and objective levers for action. Objective: to intervene earlier, act more effectively, reduce environmental impacts, and make rodent management part of an ethical, measurable, and controlled approach.
How? By transforming trash cans into smart urban sensors capable of detecting the presence of rodents from the very first individual and taking targeted, proportionate action before colonization occurs.
Why change the approach? Data-driven management enables ethical, measurable, and compliant actions to be taken, while reducing the use of rodenticides and increasing their social acceptability.
How? A scientifically validated device, a multi-sensor system, and a real-time AI-IoT platform ensure continuous monitoring, targeted interventions, and clear reporting in support of a sustainable and responsible cleanliness policy.
Rethinking rodent management
using data
Traditional pest control approaches often produce temporary effects that are difficult to maintain over time. They struggle to anticipate recolonization dynamics and take sufficient action early on, where populations are actually forming.
What if the solution lay in implementing an integrated, secure predictive tool capable of intervening precisely where rats access food, well before a colony settles in? SECU-RAT CONNECT enables a proactive, data-driven strategy: real-time monitoring, intelligent intervention planning, predictive analysis, and detailed reporting for decision-makers.
• Extension of cleanliness basket
• Specific multi-sensor system
• AI IoT platform: detection & predictive modeling
A unique device: discreet, scientifically validated, and secure
Installed in the right place: under the trash can
Trash cans are major attractions due to persistent food odors. Turning them into monitoring sites is a strategic lever:
- Installation in less than 30 minutes.
- Compatible with most trash cans on the market.
- No need for additional furniture (reduced environmental impact).
- Attractive to rodents but inaccessible to children, dogs, and non-target species.
Scientific validation
The prototypes were tested in several types of urban environments, in cities of all sizes. The results show:
- Significantly higher attendance than traditional bait boxes.
- Higher consumption of placebo bait.
- Highly accurate presence detection.
- Scientifically proven effectiveness (ICUP 2022, EVMC 2025).
- Reproducible results in cities of very different sizes.
Safety
- Child/dog safety has been rigorously tested: 100% effective in all protocols conducted under real-life conditions.
- Children: 100% inability to reach bait or traps (tests on children aged 3 to 10).
- Dogs: 100% non-access even under conditions of maximum appetite.
- ISO standard protocols conducted under real-world conditions (ICUP 2022).
Institutional validation
- Scientific presentation at ICUP 2022 and EVMC 2025.
- Winner of TANGO&SCAN Créaccro (Strasbourg Eurometropolis).
- Used in university research programs, notably in Zurich, on zoonotic risks.
- Financial support from BPI France and the Regional Innovation Fund.
- Selected for the France Design Impact Award 2026.
DEVICE WITH A DIGITAL LAYER
AI & IoT for predictive control
In SECU-RAT CONNECT, AI analyzes data from IoT sensors to enable predictive control: early detection, sensitive area mapping, automatic alerts, and action recommendations.
analysis
SECU-RAT CONNECT combines multiple sensor types
Data is transmitted to a centralized platform enabling:
Real-time monitoring
of detections, triggers, traps and baits
Digitalized field surveys
for the management and consolidation of intervention reports
Clear and concise statistical reports
for elected officials and managers
Advanced GIS mapping
integrating favorable habitats, food resources, human density and risk activities, for informed urban biodiversity management
A solution designed for urban strategy, moving towards predictive management
SECU-RAT CONNECT is part of a One Health approach and addresses the following challenges:
- Sanitation (zoonoses, hygiene),
- Environmental (reduction in rodenticides),
- Ethical (intervening before reproduction, reducing the use of lethal solutions),
- Cost-effective (fewer trips, fewer reactive interventions).
There are multiple benefits: ethical, environmental, economic, while greatly increasing the effectiveness of the fight.
For which environments?
The solution is fully integrated into the smart city ecosystem:
Our key advantages
- Quick installation on existing furniture
- Patented sensors for precise detection
- Robust, vandal-proof materials
- Secure access with a specific key
- Designed and manufactured in France
- Territorial management at all levels: from urban parks to municipalities
- Anticipating recolonization
- Clear link between resources used and results
- Support for urban development
Documented reduction in populations: from the initial population to no individuals remaining at the end of the intervention (automated reports)
Optimization of technical choices: mechanical trapping, placebo baits, or rodenticides depending on the level of infestation
- Intervention as soon as the first individual is detected
- Significant reduction in the use of rodenticides
- Decrease in the use of lethal solutions
- Low exposure of non-target species
The comprehensive and innovative solution for managers and communities
SECU-RAT is not just a device: it is a complete support ecosystem.
It transforms a structural constraint of cities (the trash bin) into a strategic decision-making tool capable of detecting, controlling, monitoring, and predicting. A truly integrated, data-driven, scientifically validated solution aligned with modern challenges: public health, the environment, animal ethics, and operational efficiency.
Comprehensive analysis by our experts
4 hours of training + unlimited hotline support
Appetence and calibration of methods
Real-time data and clear monthly reports
For elected officials and managers
Identification of factors contributing to rodent infestation