Sustainable Embedded Technology for Mouse Trap

Abstract

The mouse trap with sustainable embedded technology (MoTrap) is designed to help people in reducing and solving mouse problem at home. Currently, most people use hazardous rat poison and traditional mouse trap which is not really effective and safe to overcome this problem. The objectives of this study are to identify the required internet of things (IoT) components for the MoTrap, to develop a sustainable mouse trap with embedded technology that is suitable for both smartphone and personal computer, and to evaluate the functionality and user acceptance of the MoTrap. There are multiple functions provided such as the user can get notification after the mouse has been trapped through smartphone, view the live image from the mouse trap and also view the videos that were recorded in cloud storage. The development consists of six phases which are analysis, design, development, testing, implementation and maintenance. Two types of testing were conducted to evaluate this technology, including functionality test and technology acceptance test. There were 30 respondents participated during the technology acceptance test. From this test, the mean score values for all items are more than 3.5 (using 5-point Likert scale), and therefore, it can be concluded that most of the respondents agreed that mouse trap with embedded technology is useful and effective as an alternative tool to control mouse problem at home.