TABLE 5.
Available RFID-assisted video tracking technology.
| Company/Institute | Product name | Environment | Characteristics | Website | References |
| Actual Analytics | Home Cage Analyser | Home Cage | Side-view camera (prone to occlusion), all-in-one apparatus, mice and rats, individual and social parameters, relatively small footprint1 | https://www.actualanalytics.com/products | Bains et al., 2016; Redfern et al., 2017; Hobson et al., 2020 |
| Clever Sys Inc. | RFID-Assisted SocialScan | Social arena | Top-view camera, all-in-one apparatus, mice and rats, rodents need to be distinguishable by color/size, Focus on social behavior parameters, small footprint1 | http://cleversysinc.com/CleverSysInc/rfid-assisted-socialscan/ | Peleh et al., 2019; Peleh et al., 2020 |
| Institute Pasteur | Live Mouse Tracker | Social arena | Top-view camera, DIY, mice only, individual and rich social behavioral parameters, small footprint1, end user can add new behavioral parameters of interest | https://livemousetracker.org/ | Ey et al., 2018; de Chaumont et al., 2019 |
1Footprint refers to how much space the system occupies in addition to the home-cage/social arena.
Small: Marginal impact on overall space; large: Significant increase of footprint relative to cage environment.