Comparison Of The Cost Efficiency Of Electronic Bed Bug Monitors With Passive Bed Bug Monitors In Apartments

Proactive monitoring is consistently being recommended as a method of rapid bed bug detection in multi-unit housing. The purpose of this study was to compare the cost and maintenance time required to implement either a passive or electronic bed bug monitoring system in multi-unit facilities. While the material costs of implementing a passive system was found to be more affordable than those of an electronic system, the maintenance time needed to check passive monitors (on a regular basis) greatly exceeded that of the electronic system. Overall, it was determined that although the electronic system implementation would
require some technological advances before they could be widely used in apartment complexes, their efficiency for use in large multi-unit facilities would greatly exceed that of the passive monitoring systems, simply because they did not require regular (monthly) visual inspections.