Patent ID: 10188048

Abstract:
A method for monitoring movement of disease across agricultural areas of interest including providing, using one or more processors and one or more data storage devices, a virtual zone generator and disease movement monitor, defining, using the virtual zone generator, a plurality a virtual zones, each virtual zone corresponding to an agricultural geographic area of interest and identifying a location for the agricultural geographic area of interest, receiving a plurality of raw-data sets from a plurality of tracking devices, each tracking device corresponding to a vector or fomite that has the potential to carry a disease detrimental to agriculture, each raw data set corresponding to a tracking device and comprising an identification code identifying the tracking device, a timestamp corresponding to the time the raw data was generated by the tracking device, and location information for the tracking device, and generating disease movement data, using the disease movement monitor, by correlating the raw data sets to the virtual zones to detect movement of the tracking devices within, between and across the virtual zones.