Continuous cage environment monitoring: Improve reproducibility, detect disruptive facility activities

One contributing factor to the study reproducibility crisis may be variability of environmental factors in animal facilities. This session examines technology that enables the measurement and documenting of environmental variables and events that humans might otherwise miss – ultrasonic noise, vibration, temperature, humidity, light, as well as impacts from staff activity and construction and renovation projects. Jeremy Turner illustrates the use of Sensory Sentinel cages for both ongoing daily and project-specific scopes to detect and mitigate study disruptions and improve animal welfare. He provides case studies, implementation strategies and technical requirements, and examines the results being achieved.