August 24, 2006
Milk Cow-Tracking Blues
A new RFID cattle-tracking system is being offered by agri-tech company TekVet. The system monitors livestock temperature individually and uses an IBM-hosted Internet server for access to tagged livestock's health records. TekVet's system is different from other catttle trackers because it uses active tags and has a temperature sensor. The read range of the tags 300-500 feet. [via RFID Journal]
A system known as NAIS (National Animal Identification System) has been devised in the US, the result of a partnership between the NIAA (National Institute for Animal Agriculture) and the NPPC (National Pork Producers Council). The intent is to RFID-tag all livestock animals in the US, then later tracks tags using a GPS (Global Positioning System).
While most people probably consider animal tagging relatively innocuous, some people feel differentlly, as detailed in the award-winning book The Cattle.
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