Insect GateEstimator
What does routine inspection cost you?
Put in your own figures. The estimate is only as good as your assumptions, so every input is editable, including how much routine inspection you think continuous monitoring would remove.
Current annual inspection hours h
Current annual routine inspection cost£
Estimated Insect Gate subscription per year£
Labour capacity released, on your estimate h
Value of that capacity£
Illustrative estimate based on your assumptions. Subscription at £12 per monitor per month; hardware and lures are quoted separately. Physical inspection remains appropriate wherever activity is reported.
The number is only half of it
Routine inspection reads every location on a schedule whether or not anything happened. Continuous monitoring reports on the night something moves. The labour figure is real, but the larger change is that visits go to the locations that changed, not to the list.