Firms are turning to tech - both old and new - to catch outbreaks early, which is vital to stopping the spread.
"A fortnight ago we had a detection of a bedbug and it's frightening," says Max Malka, owner of the Montlhery Paris Sud Hotel, 15km south of Paris.
He is so proud of his system that he has stickers in his hotel telling customers it is in place for their reassurance. A combination of artificial intelligence software and the human eye confirms whether a bedbug has indeed been caught. If so, a mobile phone alert warning is sent to relevant managers."It's a bit like a Covid test for bedbugs," says Mr Fryers.
Bugs crawling up the bed to bite humans are caught in a cavity and the traps then send a signal over the internet to alert hotel owners. The dogs don't require any maintenance and they don't risk any technical faults or going offline. However, they can't be onsite every day and it takes them a long time to check a large hotel, room by room.Rentokil is using sniffer dogs in the fight against bedbugs. Using a backpack vacuum, trained technicians collect an air sample from, for example, a hotel room.
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