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Abstract

There is disclosed a method for early detection of termite activity within a suspect zone of a building that contains environmental noise maskable of the termite activity. An environmental knowledge base may be collected to represent identified termite activity plus background noises present in the suspect zone. A termite pattern library may represent a variety of termite sound patterns discoverable during a termite inspection without noise. A deep learning model may be trained on the sound patterns and the environmental knowledge for learning to discern the presence of termite activity and for producing an intelligent algorithm installable in the sampling device. A primary audio transducer may be configured to the sampling device and directed toward a sample location in the suspect zone to collect an audio sample. By operation of the intelligent algorithm, the device may indicate the presence of at least one sound pattern of the termite activity.

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