Pest Identification

Field technicians upload pest photos to identify the pest and receive suggested treatment plans.

Business impact

• Identification speed — The app is intended to help technicians identify a pest quickly from a photo, though no numeric improvement is reported.
• Treatment decision support — The system immediately provides remediation solutions and pre-populated recommendations to support treatment planning.

Data requirements

• Uploaded pest photographs (image) — Smartphone images of pests are the input used for identification.
• Rentokil pest imagery corpus (image) — The model was trained on a large corpus of Rentokil's existing pest imagery.

AI methods and techniques

• Image classification — Used to compare uploaded pest photos against known pest images and suggest matches.
• Machine learning — Used in the model trained on Rentokil pest imagery that supports identification and match suggestions.

Industries

Real-world evidence

1 documented case study on record.

Companies using this: Rentokil.