Ovitrap IoT with Automatic Mosquito Egg Counter Based-on Digital Image Processing

Abstract

Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) has spread rapidly to all regions of the world in recent years and now, based on the 2023 WHO report, has become endemic in more than 100 countries in the WHO Region in Africa, the Eastern Mediterranean, the Americas, the Western Pacific and Southeast Asia. One way to anticipate further spread is to prevent and control the reproduction cycle of dengue vectors such as Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus. For this purpose, a prototype was designed of a mosquito egg trap, known as an ovitrap, which can automatically count the number of eggs trapped in it and can be monitored remotely using current technology called Internet of Things (IoT). The prototype was successfully constructed along with a proposed new digital image processing algorithm and an automatic egg counting system. In a real experimental environment, the IoT-ovitrap was used to count the number of eggs in a sample and achieved the best MAPE score using the proposed fusion method at 2.21% with a standard deviation of 3.93.