Precision Humidificatrion and Dehumidification Airflow system
Elevate your research with HumidiFlex – your solution for overcoming reproducibility challenges and improving laboratory animal welfare. HumidiFlex precisely humidifies or dehumidifies the air within each cage, giving you unparalleled control over the microenvironment in your vivarium. This enhances the quality of your research and prioritizes the well-being of your laboratory animals, especially in breeding programs and facilities where humidity is an ongoing challenge.
Prioritizing Laboratory Animal Well-Being
- Meets and exceeds the humidity requirements outlined in animal welfare legislation, relevant regulations, and the “Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals” (Eighth Edition).
- Provides consistent in-cage environmental conditions, crucial for preventing health issues such as ringtail in rats.
- Tailors humidity to species-specific needs, including those of nude mice, helping to avoid issues such as increased food and water consumption due to low-humidity environments.
Source: Study on humidity and animal welfare
Enhancing Data Validity and Research Reproducibility
- Controls humidity as a confounding factor through constant, precise regulation. This helps ensure accurate, repeatable data by maintaining stable environmental conditions throughout the study.
- Proven by collaborative studies with institutions such as King's College London and the University of Turku, which demonstrated improved breeding performance and pup survival rates under consistent humidity conditions.
Source: SCANBUR White Paper on Humidity, Breeding Performance, and Validity
Improved Energy Efficiency
- Reduces energy consumption by up to 80% compared to traditional room-level humidification systems, which often overhumidify large areas.
- HumidiFlex targets local or cage-level humidification, reducing the volume of air that requires high humidity levels.
Advanced Humidification Control
- Features patented technology that uses a hot plate to generate vapor, enabling humidification and optional dehumidification.
- Maintains humidity within ±3% of the user-defined target, a level of precision unmatched by any other system.
- Operates effectively within a room humidity range of 2%–80%.
Cloud-Based Reporting
- Offers real-time data logging and access via a cloud-based portal with multiple user access levels.
- Provides email and SMS alerts, alarm notifications, and data retrieval and download capabilities.
Airflow Capacity
- Connects to most IVC brands, supporting up to 4 single-sided or 2 double-sided mouse IVC racks, or 2 single-sided or 1 double-sided rat IVC rack.
Accurate Relative Humidity, All Year Round
HumidiFlex, a patented* and unrivaled technology, guarantees stable relative humidity that varies by less than ±3% from the set point throughout the year, even during cold, dry winters or humid summer days, regardless of the building's central heating and ventilation systems.
Full Flexibility, Everywhere and for Everyone
HumidiFlex adjusts the relative humidity of the air in individually ventilated cage (IVC) systems.
