Spotta has already proven extremely effective in the UK and Europe and we have successfully introduced it to select customers in the US. Starting today, we are opening our services to the entire US market.
CAMBRIDGE, UK (PRWEB)
May 06, 2022
Spotta, an IoT pest control solution based in Cambridge, UK, launched its US market presence targeting the hotel sector. Spotta emerged from the world-renowned tech cluster around the University of Cambridge in Great Britain. Their solutions use intelligent IoT monitoring devices called pods to detect pest outbreaks before they start.
In the hotel sector, Spotta focuses on bed bugs. Spotta’s smart devices are placed in each hotel room and the software alerts hotel management in real time when there is a bed bug in a room. This allows hotels to spot outbreaks before they start, saving thousands of dollars in pest control costs, protecting their reputation, and ensuring the safety of their guests.
“Spotta allows hotels to identify bed bug outbreaks before they even start,” said Robert Fryers, CEO and co-founder of Spotta. “The hotel industry has had a difficult time in recent years. The combination of hygiene-conscious guests and labor shortages for housekeeping means they need new ways to control pests like bed bugs. Spotta has already proven extremely effective in the UK and Europe and we have successfully introduced it to select customers in the US. Starting today, we are opening our services to the entire US market.”
The traditional approach to getting rid of bed bugs is to ask the cleaning crew to look out for them, while also hiring a pest control company on advance. The problem with this is that, at the best of times, it can be difficult to spot bed bugs before a guest finds them. This situation is exacerbated by the national labor shortage. Housekeeping teams are expected to clean more rooms than ever, meet stricter guidelines (due to COVID) than ever before, and do it all with fewer people.
“It’s an impossible situation for housekeeping in the hotel sector in general,” Fryers said. “Housekeeping just can’t be your first line of defense against bed bugs anymore.”
Bed bugs spread easily because they can take travelers or their luggage with them. Bed bugs are a constant nuisance for hotels, costing thousands of dollars and damaging reputations because guests don’t understand the spread of bed bugs and mistakenly assume that only inferior hotels suffer from them. According to a study conducted by Orkin, 98% of hotels have implemented bed bug prevention measures such as: B. household inspections or even the use of dogs to detect bed bugs. The problem with these approaches is that they don’t reliably catch breakouts before guests find them. There is also a high risk that the bugs will have spread to other rooms before they are detected.
Spotta’s smart devices are discreetly placed under the hotel’s mattress so guests cannot see them. The Bed Pod, as it’s called, releases a pheromone only recognized by bed bugs, drawing them in and trapping them. Once inside, Spotta’s intelligent sensors determine whether the insect caught is a bed bug or not. If it’s a bed bug, hotel management is automatically notified so they can call their pest controller and fix the problem before guests are affected. Since Spotta operates 24/7 in every room, hotel management can keep an eye on bed bugs without taking up staff time.
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