The Digital Ventilated Cage (DVC®) is a unique and revolutionary home-cage monitoring system designed for a standard Tecniplast IVC cage system for mice. DVC® is composed of electronics and software components to collect information directly from the home cage in the home rack.
Thanks to its innovative features, the DVC® system benefits the Animal Facility's operations, especially saving on running costs and maximising Operators' workload efficiency. Return on investment, better known as ROI, is a key performance indicator (KPI) often used to determine the profitability of an expenditure.
Below you find a simplified version of the official DVC® ROI TOOL*. This has been designed to quickly calculate overall results by comparing your preferred Tecniplast standard IVC cage (GM500 or Emerald) to the corresponding DVC® one.
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*Disclaimer: This ROI tool is intended to provide you with a quick initial evaluation of the potential savings generated by implementing the DVC® system in your facility. Moreover, this ROI focuses ONLY on quantitative aspects while the several qualitative ones (especially the ones affecting animal welfare, for instance) are left apart for a deeper face to face discussion. Finally, like any other automatic web tool, the cost evaluation is driven by your inputs. If you want to know more about the DVC® ROI TOOL, how it is calculated, or to discuss with us more, please use our format to contact us.
