Animal Cage Camera


Figure: Two Animal Cage Cameras, Version A3034C2-A. The A3034C2-A's wide-angle DSL227 lens and IMX219 image sensor provide a full-color, 148-degree diagonal field of view.

The Animal Cage Camera (ACC) operates with our Videoarchiver to provide video that is synchronous with telemetry data to within ±100 ms. We know of no other camera capable of sustaining such close synchronization continuously for months at a time. The ACC's wide-angle lense can view an entire animal cage when pressed up against the cage wall. The camera is easy to deploy because it requires only one network cable for power and communcation: it runs entirely off industry-standard Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) device. The ACC provides white and infra-read illumination, and the Videoarchiver's scheduler allows us to brighten and dim the white and infra-read lights on a twenty-four hour cycle. Commercial webcams provide synchronization of no better than ±60 s per day, are equipped with lenses far inferior to those deployed in the ACC, and produce video files that are either excessively large or degraded by inferior compression. The great advantage of commercial webcams is that they are inexpensive. If you prefer to use a commercial webcam, we recommend the M7D77-PoE, which we have tested for compatibility with our telemetry system.

Product Fundamentals

ACC Manual: Use and performance of our animal cage cameras.
Animal Cage Camera (A3034): A black-anodized, cuboid, wide-angle camera.
Price List: A list of products and their prices.

Related Products

Animal Location Tracker (A3038): Message receiver and location tracker with PoE interface (active).
Subcutaneous Transmitter (SCT): Miniature, implantable, battery-powered, telemetry sensor.
Faraday Enclosures (FE): Isolation from microwave interference, can include built-in ACCs.
Telemetry Compatible Webcam: Consumer webcam compatible with our telemetry system..

Software Tools

LWDAQ Software: Network-based data acquisition and analysis program.
Videoarchiver Tool: Program that controls and reads out multible ACCs simultaneously.
Videoarchiver Libraries: Archive of libraries for necessary to run the Videoarchiver.
Startup Manager: Software component that starts video recording with one click.

System Details

Real-Time System Setup: Watch us put together a telemetry and video recording system.
Mock Interview: Mock interview between a potential telemetry customer and our president.
Telemetry and Video: Video introduction to synchronous telemetry, stimulus, and video.
Video Blob Tracking (VBT): Our open-source blob-tracking software repository with installation manual.
Ethovision Video Tracking: A proprietary blob-tracking propram that many of our customers use for animal tracking.
Test_21AUG20.zip: Video (55 × 20-s segments) with telemetry from two transmitters on mouse toys.
Test_13JUN19.zip: Video (4 × 600-s segments) with telemetry from live animal with implantable stimulator.
Test_05JUN18.zip: Video (10 × 60-s segments) with telemetry from four transmitters in Faraday enclosure.

Modified: This page was last modified on 18-Mar-25 14:26:56