Mice animal research cage DVC®

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The Digital Ventilated Cage (DVC®) is a unique and revolutionary home-cage monitoring system, designed for standard Tecniplast IVC cage system for mice, composed of a mix of electronics and software components to collect a set of information directly from the home cage (i.e. Tecniplast IVC cage) in the home rack. The DVC® system has been designed to be used in any animal Facility and lab since its main component, the DVC® Rack, can be easily washed and autoclaved without affecting current SOPs. The DVC® system is the unique worldwide system fully scalable to cover and digitalize your entire Vivarium, offering unlimited benefits for Facility Managers and Researchers. Other common technologies, such as video camera monitoring systems or RFID-based systems, have to struggle with different matters, namely affordability, power budget management, data management, and SOP's changes as common issues, therefore, resulting in poor scalability. The overall development was driven by three main targets: Streamline facility management Improve research quality Enhance animal welfare management These goals were even more ambitious since we wanted to collect information and data directly from the home-cage without stressing the animals to effectively promote a culture of care. DVC® - Digital Ventilated Cage is the powerful result of our efforts and commitment.