Phenovance

Japanese preclinical-technology company (Kashiwa/Chiba, Japan) building automated behavioural-monitoring systems for group-housed animals. Best known for eeeHive, the high-frequency RFID tracking platform with custom multiplexed-antenna hardware (automated-cognitive-testing-devices).

Key facts

• eeeHive — HF-RFID animal tracking: high-speed multiplexed antenna polling (5.9 ms per antenna) and concurrent multi-tag reads (8.2 ms per tag) overcome the two limits of conventional low-frequency RFID (poor spatiotemporal resolution; single-tag reads). Validated with 24 mice (1 week), six common marmosets (7 weeks) and aquatic species (newts, tilapia); resolves individuals even in dense clusters and extracts spatial utilisation, temporal dynamics, behavioural regularity and inter-individual relationships.
• Personnel in the eeeHive consortium: Toshihiro Endo and Suzuka Shiono (Phenovance), with collaborators at NIES Tsukuba, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, CRIEPI, Tokyo Denki University and the University of Zurich (Hans-Peter Lipp — the IntelliCage lineage, tse-systems).
• The eeeHive 2D array is referenced as a supported platform by the IntelliProfiler 2.0 home-cage analysis pipeline (J Neurosci Methods, 2026).

Related pages

automated-cognitive-testing-devices | tse-systems

References

• Benner S, et al. (2026). eeeHive: a new HF RFID-based automated behavioral monitoring system for group-housed animals with high spatiotemporal resolution. bioRxiv 10.64898/2026.04.30.720993.
• Lipp HP, et al. (2024). IntelliCage: the development and perspectives… Front Behav Neurosci 17:1270538 (lists Phenovance affiliation).
• IntelliProfiler 2.0. J Neurosci Methods (2026). https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165027026001469