Animal Cage Camera


Figure: Two Animal Cage Cameras, Version A3034B1-A. The A3034B1-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 component allows us to brighten and dim the white and infra-read lights independently on a twenty-four hours cycle of our own choosing. The ACC is roughly $1000, compared to commercial PoE webscams that can be bought for as little as $100. But commercial webcams provide synchronization of no better than ±60 s per day, are equipped with lenses far inferior to that of the ACC, and produce video that is either excessively large or degraded by inferior compression.

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): Provide isolation from microwave interference.
Telemetry Compatible Webcam (TCW): Inexpensive 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 22-Feb-25 04:31:34