Smart technology for mosquito control: Recent developments, challenges, and future prospects.

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Smart Technology coupled with digital sensors and deep learning networks have emerging scopes in various fields, including surveillance of mosquitoes carrying pathogens. Several studies have been conducted to examine the efficacy of such technologies in the differential identification of mosquitoes with high accuracy. Some smart trap uses computer vision technology and deep learning networks to identify live Aedes aegypti and Culex quinquefasciatus features in real time. Implementing such a tool paired with a reliable capture mechanism can be beneficial in identifying live mosquitoes without destroying their morphological features. Such smart traps can correctly differentiates between Cx. quinquefasciatus and Ae. aegypti mosquitoes, and may also help control mosquito-borne diseases and predict their possible outbreak. Smart devices embedded with YOLO V4 Deep Neural Network algorithm has been designed with a differential drive mechanism and a mosquito trapping module to attract mosquitoes in the environment. The use of acoustic and optical sensors in combination with machine learning techniques is accelerating the automatic classification of mosquitoes based on their flight characteristics, including wing-beat frequency. Thus, such AI-based tools have potential scopes for surveillance of mosquitoes to control vector-borne diseases. However working efficiency of such technologies requires further evaluation for implementation on a global scale.Copyright © 2024. Published by Elsevier B.V.