Recently, the US Government Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) started a nationwide UHF RFID pilot project for tracking pastures, feedlots, cattle slaughterhouse on. Last month, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) launched a pilot project. The purpose of the pilot is to APHIS UHF RFID feasibility confirmation when the movement of livestock (including feasibility when the truck is loaded or animal veterinary observation read multiple tags). If the effect is good, UHF technology will be used instead of the low frequency RFID read visually and are printed animal ear tag ID number.
USDA start UHF RFID livestock tracking pilot project
USDA is responsible for procurement and distributed UHF ear tag manufacturers, slaughterhouses and livestock feedlots as members of the industry. Currently, the agency is buying UHF ear tags from both the supply room: HANA and Y-Tex. But two companies did not share their views.
Neil Hammerschmidt APHIS animal disease traceability project manager, said the future they will make purchases from other RFID supply room. So far, Florida, Tennessee, Colorado, California, Hawaii, Montana, Michigan and Ekelama states have began to use the UHF RFID ear tags. APHIS will be responsible for up to 18 months to observe the pilot project and share the results of the pilot.
Hammerschmidt said: APHIS purpose is to test the label livestock management in real durability and reliability of the label read. APHIS expects at least 15 manufacturers, some 150,000 cattle slaughterhouses and will participate in the pilot project tracking.
2009, as part of the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) of, USDA first UHF RFID tags will be used livestock traceability. February 2010, USDA terminate this project and enabled the existing animal disease traceability framework. Hammerschmidt explained:. "The new framework is more flexible and can meet the needs of local participation in the multi-party" in 2012, USDA launched the animal disease traceability regulations that require formal boundaries to determine the movement of livestock. Therefore, USDA requires or printed using passive RFID ear tag ID numbers to manage livestock.
For the state animal health officials and cattle producers, they are most concerned about UHF tag reading distance. Users and technology providers hope these tags read range can greatly exceed LF tags.
For those who participated in the pilot, to ensure correctness in the case dating back from the past time is another big challenge. For example, the need to use a handheld veterinary reader reads the label when the animal inoculation, they need to ensure that reading the vaccinated animals but not in the region of the tag label other animals.
Hammerschmidt said: "If you mark the 1000 sheep, then you should look for one of them how to read the accuracy of the reader exactly how much??" He also said: "The pilot is a UHF technology in an exploration of animal tracks . "
RFID animal ear tag HANA provides built its own production of UHF RFID inlays. In addition, HANA will provide a complete set of livestock tracking and management solutions AniTrace, the program includes a cloud-based software AniTrace, gate reader (read fast moving animal tags) and slide the reader (for reading write animal tag). In addition, the company also offers a 1128 Bluetooth RFID reader and an Android application AniTrace. Thus, the user can receive the information read using the smart phone.
Recently, the US Government Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) started a nationwide UHF RFID pilot project for tracking pastures, feedlots, cattle slaughterhouse on. Last month, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) launched a pilot project. The purpose of the pilot is to APHIS UHF RFID feasibility confirmation when the movement of livestock (including feasibility when the truck is loaded or animal veterinary observation read multiple tags). If the effect is good, UHF technology will be used instead of the low frequency RFID read visually and are printed animal ear tag ID number.
USDA start UHF RFID livestock tracking pilot project
USDA is responsible for procurement and distributed UHF ear tag manufacturers, slaughterhouses and livestock feedlots as members of the industry. Currently, the agency is buying UHF ear tags from both the supply room: HANA and Y-Tex. But two companies did not share their views.
Neil Hammerschmidt APHIS animal disease traceability project manager, said the future they will make purchases from other RFID supply room. So far, Florida, Tennessee, Colorado, California, Hawaii, Montana, Michigan and Ekelama states have began to use the UHF RFID ear tags. APHIS will be responsible for up to 18 months to observe the pilot project and share the results of the pilot.
Hammerschmidt said: APHIS purpose is to test the label livestock management in real durability and reliability of the label read. APHIS expects at least 15 manufacturers, some 150,000 cattle slaughterhouses and will participate in the pilot project tracking.
2009, as part of the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) of, USDA first UHF RFID tags will be used livestock traceability. February 2010, USDA terminate this project and enabled the existing animal disease traceability framework. Hammerschmidt explained:. "The new framework is more flexible and can meet the needs of local participation in the multi-party" in 2012, USDA launched the animal disease traceability regulations that require formal boundaries to determine the movement of livestock. Therefore, USDA requires or printed using passive RFID ear tag ID numbers to manage livestock.
For the state animal health officials and cattle producers, they are most concerned about UHF tag reading distance. Users and technology providers hope these tags read range can greatly exceed LF tags.
For those who participated in the pilot, to ensure correctness in the case dating back from the past time is another big challenge. For example, the need to use a handheld veterinary reader reads the label when the animal inoculation, they need to ensure that reading the vaccinated animals but not in the region of the tag label other animals.
Hammerschmidt said: "If you mark the 1000 sheep, then you should look for one of them how to read the accuracy of the reader exactly how much??" He also said: "The pilot is a UHF technology in an exploration of animal tracks . "
RFID animal ear tag HANA provides built its own production of UHF RFID inlays. In addition, HANA will provide a complete set of livestock tracking and management solutions AniTrace, the program includes a cloud-based software AniTrace, gate reader (read fast moving animal tags) and slide the reader (for reading write animal tag). In addition, the company also offers a 1128 Bluetooth RFID reader and an Android application AniTrace. Thus, the user can receive the information read using the smart phone.
