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The other tools in the Zoometrics suite seen from park and garden management: what each one does and how it complements Silva Metrics.

Silva Metrics is the Zoometrics suite tool for inventorying parks and gardens, with everything inside them, living and non-living. But a park is never just a park: residents walk their dogs through it, volunteers help in it, and cat colonies and wild animals cross it, while several departments of the same local government work on the same ground.

This page describes each of the other tools from the point of view of the people who look after green space: what it does, why it matters to a parks and gardens service and when, in day-to-day work, it complements Silva Metrics. Each card leads to that tool’s website and, at the end, to Zoometrics, which brings them together.

  • Meow Metrics

    Meow Metrics organises the work with the municipality's cat colonies following the TNR method set out in Spanish Law 7/2023: each colony has its own record, its place on the map, a census of its cats and a history of trapping, neutering and veterinary care. It brings municipal technical staff, associations and volunteers into one system. For a parks and gardens service, it offers a view of something that almost never appears in an inventory of plants and furniture: where the cats live, who looks after them and who has to authorise each action, because every colony states whether the ground it occupies is public, private or mixed.

    How it works with Silva Metrics

    Meow and Silva share the same municipality and technical team: the people who look after the parks and the people who look after the colonies work on the same ground. With both at hand, pruning, building work or a replaced bench can be planned knowing which colonies are nearby and who tends them, and the crew can warn that person before stepping in. It is a day-to-day complementarity: each tool keeps its own records and helps people decide better in the other.

  • Census Metrics

    Census Metrics keeps the municipal census of companion animals, mostly dogs and cats, up to date. Owners register their animal from their phone using the microchip number, veterinary clinics complete the health record and the local government validates and consults a living, georeferenced census. From the point of view of green space management it matters because of who walks through the places being looked after every day: residents with their dog in the park, the neighbourhood dog area or the sign at the entrance. Registration can start with a QR code, including one on a dog park sign, so the green space and the census meet in the same place.

    How it works with Silva Metrics

    Silva Metrics records the dog areas and the rest of a park's furniture; Census Metrics records the animals and the people who walk them. One council, with different departments, can thus look at both sides of the same space: the equipment that has to be maintained and the everyday coexistence that uses it. They complement each other through use, each with its own data and its own responsible team.

  • Wild Metrics

    Wild Metrics follows the wild animals that cross paths with city life, starting with the wild boar, and it does so by recording encounters instead of counting individuals: where they happen, at what hour and with what consequences. It joins on one map what residents report, what cameras and sensors pick up and what the wildlife service does, and from that come alerts, response protocols and a risk forecast by area and time of day. The parks and gardens team sees it from its own ground: parks are among the delicate spots that get prioritised, and the species being watched include cases such as the pine processionary moth or the Asian hornet, which meet trees and people out for a walk.

    How it works with Silva Metrics

    Silva and Wild work in tandem and what crosses between them is shared, without duplicating records: for example, pollinators seen on a planting or a nest spotted in a tree before pruning. Whoever schedules pruning and planting decides with what the other side of the same space has already recorded in view, and whoever handles a report in a park knows what is planted there and what furniture surrounds it.

  • Ark Metrics

    Ark Metrics is where help for a municipality's homeless animals gets coordinated: people who report a case, whoever goes to pick the animal up, whoever houses it for a while, whoever adopts it and whoever gives money or supplies. Each step is noted, residents browse the animals up for adoption on an open site that needs no account, and the local government has a directory of friendly organisations and businesses plus statistics on the reports it receives. It shares data and user accounts with Meow Metrics, so nothing is typed twice. For people who look after parks and gardens it is a practical support: a park is often where someone runs into an animal that needs help, and this network lets the case be passed on without improvising.

    How it works with Silva Metrics

    Silva and Ark open two different doors for residents onto the same public space: with Silva they report a diseased tree or a broken fountain, and with Ark they report an incident with an animal, offer to foster or become a volunteer. They serve different municipal departments, but both give the council an orderly channel for participation instead of scattered calls to different offices.

The company and the full suite

Zoometrics

Zoometrics is the platform and the company behind the suite: it brings together tools designed so that a municipality can look after the people, animals and plants that share its streets and parks at the same time, with data on the map and a One Health approach. Each tool covers one part, from cat colonies and urban wild animals to the companion animal census, citizen participation and the greenery of parks and gardens, and all of them share a common language layer. Silva Metrics is the piece devoted to parks and gardens. The Zoometrics website also holds the science behind the approach, the team and the impact of the suite.

How it works with Silva Metrics

For a parks and gardens service, Zoometrics means its green inventory does not stand alone: it belongs to a family of tools designed so that the different departments of a council work with the same approach and with geolocated data.