This page showcases the climate monitoring and control systems we've developed specifically for wildlife
enclosures in zoological park exhibits and other applications such as "breed for release" conservation programs. The ZooCADA
application software is designed from the ground up by Adena Scientific. The hardware platform our software runs on, and the sensors
we recommend for use with it, are carefully selected products from leading manufacturers. Using this combination of technologies, we are
able to offer a range of solutions from a single stand-alone stations to park-wide systems comprising of numerous network connected stations,
each with their respective sensors. Stations in networked systems are able to communicate with each other to share data, for example,
one station with sensors measuring the outside climate can provide the reference external temperature and humidity values for the HVAC
control systems of every enclosure on the network. Stations can be accessed by staff, via the network, to view the status of any
enclosure and stations are able to send Email based alarm messages.
Animal welfare is paramount so all our enclosure control systems are designed to reliably provide a natural enclosure environment, complete
with automatic seasonal variation of lighting and climate, that's optimised for the animals living in it. Well designed, correctly lit,
enclosures also help zoos provide the best experience for visitors viewing the animals.
Following is a brief overview of each of our sysems. For more information, please contact us.
ZooCADA-Log is a sophisticated climate monitoring system suitable for any wildlife enclosure. The base system monitors air temperature and relative humidity along with soil temperature and soil moisture. The soil moisture measurement is an average over the top 300mm of soil depth. Data is recorded and can be downloaded to a computer. Standard data files include 10 Minute Temperature and RH, 60 Minute Soil Temperature and Moisture, and daily Maximum, Minimum, and Average summaries.
ZooCADA-HVAC builds on the features of the ZooCADA-Log system by adding sophisticated HVAC control functions to maintain healthy, natural, climate conditions in the enclosure. The enclosure temperature is automatically maintained within predetermined seasonal setpoints using a combination of fan forced ventilation from external air and air conditioning. This improves energy efficiency by prioritising ventilation and only running the air conditioning when necessary. The hourly and daily run hours for the HVAC equipment are also logged.
ZooCADA-Lab is a highly configurable system designed for breeding lab installations and animal care facilities. This system includes all the features of our ZooCADA-HVAC system, with its data acquisition and sophisticated HVAC control, and adds automatic switched lighting control that's selectable for nocturnal or diurnal operation. Natural seasonal variation of the enclosure lighting and climate is provided to maintain a healthy, more natural environment, for the animals being cared for. A daily summary of the lighting times and durations is logged.
ZooCADA-Life is our flagship wildlife enclosure environment control system that's purpose designed specifically to meet the needs of nocturnal and diurnal indoor wildlife exhibits in zoological parks. This system builds on our ZooCADA-Lab system by adding fully automated lighting dimmers to control the enclosure's moonlight, sunrise and sunset transitions, and plant growing light, in addition to controlling the enclosure HVAC to keep the enclosure climate within a keeper defined range. The lighting and climate controls all feature fully automated natural seasonal variation.
ZooCADA-Met is a compact, low maintenance, weather station that measures temperature and relative humidity, barometric pressure, wind speed and direction, solar radiation and rainfall. Optional sensors provide for grass minimum temperature, and soil water content measurement. The station can operate standalone from solar power or be PoE powered when installed as part of a ZooCADA network. When networked, the station can provide climate measurements to other ZooCADA stations as well as wind, rain, and temperature alarms to alert staff of severe weather events.
ZooCADA-Store is designed to monitor up to three refrigerated and/or non-refrigerated food storage rooms, such as walk in fridges, freezers and pantrys in animal food preparation kitchens at zoological facilities. The temperature of each room is logged to support research and management tasks, a piezo alert warns staff if a door is open too long, and alarms can be raised if temperatures deviate from normal. In the event that someone becomes trapped in a refrigerated space, a safety panic alarm button is provided in each room to enable them to summon help.
ZooCADA-Mod enables any of our ZooCADA station programs to be customised. Customisation code is contained in its own file that's linked to the station program, making it possible to add extra sensors, data processing, control, and data logging without changing the station program itself. Customisations can be readily programmed by anyone familiar with programming the dataloggers. This structure ensures we can maintain standardised, updateable, station programs while enabling customisations, built by end users or Adena Scientific, to deployed on sites where needed.
Optional Sensors are provided for in some station programs so they can easily be added at any time and enabled in the station constants file. Other sensors can be added to most ZooCADA stations and programmed with the ZooCADA-Mod customisation module. A wide range of sensors are available covering such things as solar radiation, wind speed and direction, rainfall, soil moisture, soil temperature, water level, etc. Digital sensors with SDI-12 connections are the easiest to add as they can share the same terminals as other SDI-12 sensors already on the station.
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