Zoometrics - Smart Metrics for Smart Cities

Zoometrics suite

Zoometrics starts from a simple idea: in a municipality, people, animals and plants share the same territory, yet they are almost always managed separately, each department with its own spreadsheet. The suite brings together on one platform the tools a local government can use for each part (feline colonies, companion animals, urban wildlife, citizen participation and green spaces), with geolocated data and the One Health approach as the common thread.

What each tool offers on its own is useful; what the suite adds is what they have in common: accounts and permissions for each person and each department, maps and records built on the same logic, a shared language layer and, where the tools provide for it, data that is cross-referenced instead of duplicated. Behind it lies a way of working that shows in our science section: deciding with evidence and keeping a record of what is done.

Below, each tool is described from the viewpoint of the company that brings them together. Each one has its own website, which its name links to, with the detail of its functions.

  • Meow Metrics

    Meow Metrics is the suite tool that puts the management of community cat colonies into municipal practice. Each colony has its place on the map, its animals, its interventions (trapping, neutering, veterinary care) and a person in charge, and the work is shared between local government technical staff, associations and volunteers. From Zoometrics' point of view, it is the piece that organises coexistence between people and community animals with the TNR method, and gives a single record to work that is usually spread across many hands.

    How it works with Zoometrics

    Meow Metrics shares data and identity with Ark Metrics, so a colony, its cats and the people who take part are never recorded twice. It is the clearest example of Zoometrics' idea of a suite: different tools, a common base and several departments of the same municipality deciding with the same information.

  • Census Metrics

    Census Metrics brings citizens a procedure that is usually done in person: owners register their animal from a phone, the veterinary clinic completes its health record and the local government validates and consults a georeferenced census that is always up to date. For Zoometrics it stands for the bond between people and their companion animals: identification and registration are the basis of responsible ownership, and clinics, by contributing health information, show the One Health approach in practice, one that links people, animals and the environment.

    How it works with Zoometrics

    Census Metrics shares with the rest of the suite its language layer and the network of local partners: shops and clinics offering perks to registered animals belong to a network that is reused across tools. A local government that knows which companion animals live in its area, and where, starts with better information for its other departments.

  • Wild Metrics

    Wild Metrics rests on an idea of its own: what a city manages is not a census of animals but a flow of encounters with people. It joins neighbours' reports, sensor and camera detections and municipal service interventions on a single map and turns them into alerts and forecasts by area and moment of the day, to decide where and when to step in. It begins with the wild boar and accepts other species without a new tool being built; it also publishes its data in the standard formats of city platforms.

    How it works with Zoometrics

    Wild Metrics is the suite tool that opens up to city platforms through open standards (NGSI-LD and Smart Data Models) and works in tandem with Silva Metrics. For Zoometrics it completes the wild side of the One Health approach, alongside the feline colonies and companion animals covered by Meow and Census.

  • Ark Metrics

    Ark Metrics is the part of the suite built for participation: residents, associations and local government meet there around animals that need help. A trapping request, a temporary home, an adoption or a donation are steps in one journey that stays in a single system, and every organisation or contributor can have a public page to explain their cause. Meow Metrics, for its part, handles the technical management of the colonies, and the two rely on the same data. For Zoometrics it shows that neighbourhood involvement can be organised and measured like any other service.

    How it works with Zoometrics

    Ark and Meow are two applications on one platform: the account is single, though it can hold a different role in each, and the colony cats shown in Ark are the ones Meow manages. A municipality can add or drop tools without opening new accounts or moving data, and that is what Zoometrics calls a suite.

  • Silva Metrics

    Silva Metrics catalogues a municipality's greenery and keeps it up to date: every green area with its vegetation (tree by tree or in stands), furniture, play equipment, irrigation and other elements, all with condition, history and position. One single QR code shows an explanatory sheet to people out for a walk and the full record to whoever works on the spot, while crews note from their phones what they are doing. For Zoometrics it is the tool that turns green space into data, the setting shared by people and the rest of urban life, and it serves both planning and accountability.

    How it works with Zoometrics

    Silva Metrics pairs up with Wild Metrics: the data that crosses between the two is shared, so the municipality sees what is alive in each place side by side without duplicating records, as when a nest turns up in a tree about to be pruned. With the rest of the suite the link is one of use: a single local government spreads those areas across different departments, and Silva supplies knowledge of the green space where they overlap.

Zoometrics - Smart Metrics for Smart Cities
Meowmetrics - Zoometrics

Comprehensive management of community cat colonies.

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Isotype of Census Metrics

Municipal census of companion animals, with registration and identification.

Isotype of Wild Metrics

Map of encounters with urban wildlife with automatic or assisted impact assessment, to prioritise areas and actions; it starts with the wild boar.

Isotype of Ark Metrics

Citizen participation tool with full traceability from the street to adoption (captures, fostering, adoptions, donations, volunteering) that shares data and identity with Meow.

Isotype of Silva Metrics

Inventory of parks and gardens for towns and cities, with everything inside them, living and non-living: plants, furniture, play areas and irrigation.

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