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Routine health assessment of laboratory rodents can be improved using automated home cage monitoring.
(automated health assessment). developed an automated feeder that tracks feed intake, body weight,
and physical appearance of individual RFID-tagged mice in social home cages (same study).
RFID reader arrays have been used to track location and activity of individual mice in large enriched
Fluid intake can be regulated and monitored using RFID-based systems. Deployment for large-scale
routine health surveillance will require adjustments to minimize cost and space requirements, and/or
large-scale modifications to conventional caging systems

Recommended. Measuring Locomotor Activity and Behavioral Aspects of Rodents living in the
Home-cage) It covers electrical capacitance technology and radio-frequency identification
(RFID), which focus mainly on voluntary locomotor activity in both single and multiple rodents,
respectively.

RFID = The technology consists of four elements: tags, readers, antennas, and a computer network for
data handling

Automated recording of home cage activity and temperature of individual rats housed in social
groups: The Rodent Big Brother project
We have used a subcutaneous radiofrequency identification (RFID) transponder to measure
ambulatory activity and temperature of individual rats when group-housed in conventional, rack-
mounted home cages
- Assessing RFID transponder efficiency in different spatial orientations
- RFID transponder to allow continuous measurement of ambulatory activity and
temperature in individual rats in group-housed situations

*Results of the study using RFID and how it affects mice and their recommendations

RFID is for individual rats not grouped

Low-cost solution for rodent home-cage behaviour monitoring | PLOS ONE

Peleh, T., Xue-Sheng, B., Kas, M., & Hengerer, B. (2019). RFID-supported video tracking for

automated analysis of social behaviour in groups of mice. Journal of Neuroscience

Methods, 325, 108323. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneumeth.2019.108323

Reduction in Cold Stress in an Innovative Metabolic Cage Housing System Increases Animal

Welfare in Laboratory Mice (europepmc.org)