Animal Census

barcodeCensus collects, reconciles and reports census data using bar code and RFID data capture

  • Increases staff efficiency, reduces errors, saves time and costs
  • Improve accuracy of per diem calculations
  • Reduces the number of steps required to perform daily activities such as activation/deactivation, weaning animals, cage relocations, and cage splits
  • Run on demand queries of census activities and cage locations

Role Based Features:

Researcher

  • Researchers use eSirius3GRequest breeding colony cage cards from new or memorized templates
  • Receive notifications when requests are completed
  • View historical and period to date per diem costs


Animal Care Provider

  • Print cage cards locally on any printer or cage type
  • Process transfer requests(protocol, account, per diem, room) via alerts and automatic notifications
  • Split over crowded cages and print new cards
  • Perform daily activities such as activation/deactivation, weaning animals, and cage relocations


Facility Supervisor/Census Coordinator

  • Distribute workload to staff by facility
  • Manage daily activities such as activation/deactivation, weaning animals, cage relocations, and cage splits
  • Perform partial or complete facility census collection
  • Identify cages missing from inventory
  • Find active cages on expired protocols
  • Determine deactivated and/or never activated cages
  • Run on demand queries of current and historical census activities
  • Interface with other lab systems to import/export cage and animal information

Business Office

  • View current and historical account activity
  • Complete account transfer requests easily
  • Notify Researcher when accounts expire
  • Calculate per diem charges from inventory reconciliations
  • Run on demand queries of current and historical charges
  • Interface with institutional financial system