What is RFID Ear Tag

An ear tag is a plastic or metal object used for identification of domestic livestock and other animals. If the ear tag contains an RFID module conforming to ISO 11784 & 11785, then it is called an Electronic Ear Tag.

An ear tag usually carries an individual identification number or code for the animal, or for its herd or flock. This identification number (ID) may be assigned by some national organisations (usually in the form of Property Identification Code, or PIC), or they may be handwritten for the convenience of the farmer ("management tags"). The National Livestock Identification System (NLIS) of Australia regulations require that all cattle be fitted with a RFID device in the form of an ear tag or rumen bolus before movement from the property and that the movement be reported to the NLIS. However, if animals are tagged for internal purposes in a herd or farm, IDs need not be unique in larger scales. The NLIS now also requires sheep and goats to use an ear tag that has the Property Identification Code inscribed on it. These ear tags and boluses are complemented by transport documents supplied by vendors that are used for identification and tracking. A similar system is used for cattle in the European Union, each bovine animal having a passport document and tag in each ear carrying the same number. Sheep and goats in the EU have one or two tags carying the official number of their flock (however, individual numbers are to be introduced from the end of 2009).

An ear tag can be applied with an ear tag applicator (also called pliers), however there are also specially-designed tags that can be applied by hand. Depending on the purpose of the tagging, an animal may be tagged on one ear or both. If there exists a national animal identification programme in a country, animals may be tagged on both ears for the sake of increased security and effectiveness, or as a legal requirement. If animals are tagged for internal purposes, usually one ear is tagged. Australian sheep and goats are required to have visually readable ear tags printed with a Property Identification Code (PIC). They are complemented by movement documents supplied by consignors that are used for identification and tracking.

Very small ear tags are available for laboratory animals such as mice and rats. They are usually sold with a device that pierces the animal's ear and installs the tag at the same time. Lab animals can also be identified by other methods such as ear punching or notching (also used for livestock; see below), implanted RFID tags (mice are too small to wear an ear tag containing an RFID chip), and dye.

Long Lifespan of a Microchip

The microchip itself contains no internal battery but is powered by energy it receives from the scanner or reader. As such they enjoy an exceptionally long lifespan that far exceeds the life of the animal.

Universal Pet Microchip Scanner Needed

Using microchips to recover lost pets is a great idea. However, the Coalition for Reuniting Pets and Families reports that many pet microchips can only be read by a scanner from the same company that created the chip. This is because the companies have used encryption technology on the implanted chips. Therefore, a universal scanner is needed that can read all kinds of pet chips. John Snyder, senior director of companion animals and equine protection with The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) said, "If the United States does not adopt a global scanner, pet owners run the risk of losing the beloved pet that the microchip is supposed to protect." The Coalition reports that the United States is one of the few countries that does not have universal scanning of pet chips in place:

In Europe and Canada, the animal welfare community already employs a scanner that can read all chips. And, consequently, the rate of pets returned to their owners is dramatically greater. For example, in the United Kingdom, where a scanner that can read all chips is in place, 47 percent of lost dogs are returned to their families -- that's more than twice the current rate of return in the United States!

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How to Implant Animals Microchip

A microchip implant for animals is an identifying integrated circuit placed under the skin of a dog, cat, or other animal. The chips are about the size of a large grain of rice and are based on a passive RFID technology..

Tattooing is another, older method for identifying animals.

Uses and benefits

Microchips have been particularly useful in the return of lost pets. They can also assist where the ownership of an animal is in dispute.

Animal shelters and animal control centers benefit from microchipping by more quickly and efficiently returning pets to their owners. When a pet can be quickly matched to its owner, the shelter avoids the expense of housing, feeding, providing medical care, and outplacing or destroying the pet. Microchipping is becoming increasingly standard at shelters: many require all outplaced animals to receive a microchip, and provide the service as part of the adoption package.

In addition to shelters and veterinarians, microchips are used by kennels, breeders, brokers, trainers, registries, rescue groups, humane societies, clinics, farms, stables, animal clubs and associations, researchers and pet stores. Animal control officers are also trained and equipped to scan animals.

System of recovery

Effective pet identification and recovery depends on the following:

• A pet owner either adopts a pet at a shelter that microchips some or all adoptee animals, or the owner with an existing pet brings it to a veterinarian (or a shelter) that provides the service.
  
• The shelter or vet selects a microchip from their stock, makes a note of that chip's unique ID, and then inserts the chip into the animal.
  
• Before sending the animal home, the vet or shelter performs a test scan on the animal. This helps ensure that the chip will be picked up by a scanner, and that its unique identifying number will be read correctly.
  
• An enrollment form is completed with the chip number, the pet owner's contact information, the name and description of the pet, the shelter's and/or veterinarian's contact information, and an alternate emergency contact designated by the pet owner. (Some shelters or vets, however, choose to designate themselves as the primary contact, and take the responsibility of contacting the owner directly. This allows them to be kept informed about possible problems with the animals they place.) The form is then sent to the manufacturer of the chip to be entered into its database. This company typically provides not only the microchips, but a 24-hour, toll-free telephone service for pet recovery, good for the life of the pet.
  
• The pet owner is also provided the chip ID and the contact information of the recovery service. This is often in the form of a collar tag imprinted with the chip ID and the recovery service's toll-free number, to be worn by the animal.
  
• If the pet is lost or stolen, and is found by local authorities or taken to a shelter, it is scanned during intake to see if a chip exists. If one is detected, authorities call the recovery service and provide them the ID number, the pet's description, and the location of the animal. If the pet is wearing the collar tag, anyone who finds the pet can call the toll-free number, making it unnecessary to involve the authorities. (The owner can also preemptively notify the recovery service directly if a pet disappears. This is useful if the pet is stolen, and is taken to a vet who scans it and checks with the recovery service.)
  
• The recovery service notifies the owner that the pet has been found, and where to go to recover the animal.

Many veterinarians perform test scans on microchipped animals every time the animal is brought in for care. This ensures the chip still performs properly. Vets sometimes use the chip ID as the pet's ID in their databases, and print this number on all outgoing paperwork associated with its services, such as receipts, test results, vaccination certifications, and descriptions of medical or surgical procedures

Components of a microchip
Microchips are passive, or inert, RFID devices and contain no internal power source. They are designed so that they do not act until acted upon.

Three basic elements comprise most microchips: A silicon chip (integrated circuit); a core of ferrite wrapped in copper wire; and a small capacitor. The silicon chip contains the identification number, plus electronic circuits to relay that information to the scanner. The ferrite -- or iron -- core acts as a radio antenna, ready to receive a signal from the scanner. The capacitor acts as a tuner, forming a LC circuit with the antenna coil.

These components are encased in special biocompatible glass made from soda lime, and hermetically sealed to prevent any moisture or fluid entering the unit. Animals are not affected physically or behaviorally by the presence of a chip in their bodies.

Implant location
In dogs and cats, chips are usually inserted below the skin at the back of the neck, between the shoulder blades on the dorsal midline. The chip can often be manually detected by the owner by gently feeling the skin in that area. It stays in place as thin layers of connective tissue form around the biocompatible glass which encases it.

Horses are microchipped on the left side of the neck, half the distance between the poll and withers, and approximately one inch below the midline of the mane, into the nuchal ligament.

Birds' microchips are injected into their breast muscles. Because proper restraint is necessary, the operation requires two people -- an avian veterinarian and a trained assistant.

RFID For Pet Management System

1. Functions

* Pet Identification
Every pet chip has a Unique Identification Code, the Code in the chip can be used as a life-long electronic identification for the pet because the chip can work more than 30 years. The officers of the Pet Regulatory Departments or veterinarians of the pet hospital can obtain the information about the pet’s identification or annual inspection immediately through scanning the part where the chip is implanted with a hand-hold reader. The officer or veterinarian can call out the electronic record of pet from central database by inputting identification code of pet to acquire the basic information, such as its name, category, sex, birth date, physical feature as well as its owner’s name and contact.
* Quarantine Information searching
Information that the pet is injected vaccine can be searched.
* Pet tracking searching
If the pet is missing, the owner can release information about the lost pet on the web . In this way the owner can look for his pet via Internet. Staff from shelter for stray pet can also use the pet chip to inquire the information about pet’s owner and post information if they have found and kept the pet.

2. System structure
RFID pet identification management system is composed of software system and hardware system. The former system is composed of central database management software and terminal management software, which is used to perform the management, entry and transmission of pet information. The latter system is composed of pet chip, reader, reading and writing equipment, data sever, performing pet data collection, identification and transmission.

3. Terminal operation mode
A. Implant the chip underneath the skin of the animal
B. Read data by a reader
C. Build an electronic record and submit it to the central database

To learn more on how DOOWA RFID can help you manage your animals for greater profit and less risk; please contact us at info@doowa-rfid.com.

RFID Solutions for Parking Control Systems

It is a jungle out there. An asphalt jungle. Parking lot operators, whether public or private, face a number of challenges such as:

* accurately identify and authorize vehicle movement

* collect and record vehicle movement data

* analyze traffic patterns to maximize facility utilization

* increase security within the parking facility

* manage staffing for peak traffic periods

* relieve congestion

* improve customer service

Function description:
This system has the following detailed functions:
1. Easily used
2. Flexible
3. Long life
4. Exact identification of internal car, external car an special car
5. Real time charging of parking fee and other relevant fees to increase profit
6. Charging customer of long parking period in advance
7. Prevent the event of charging rejection
8. Prevent event of non legal charge
9. Automatic design, fast entry and exit of car
10. Save expense of management of the parking area, improving working efficiency and economical benefit

Basic function and characteristic:

1. Water proof, anti-static, anti-magnetic,no scrape,large data volume, high encryption and multi-function

2. Free of contact, convenient operation

3. Optimize the management of budget, automatically generate various report

4. Automatically distribute card for temporary car, decrease human operation

5. Special car ID recording and displaying system, greatly increase the function of anti-theft

6. Automatically indicate while the card is not enough

To learn more on how DOOWA RFID can help you manage your animals for greater profit and less risk; please contact us at info@doowa-rfid.com.

RFID For Livestock and Poultry management Solutions

With the global economy is booming it is becoming increasingly apparent that this boom can also cause serious problems by spreading disease from one country to another by accident.
This growing number of countries exporting animals to other countries has led to the establishment of record keeping standards that use RFID as the main identification.
While some countries have not yet adopted the ISO (International Standards Organization) 11784, 11785 and 14223-1 for animal tracking, countries such as Canada, the United States, Australia, Europe and others have. As a direct result of this adoption any country wishing to export animals to these countries must have proper tracking and tracing records which mandate the use of RFID.
Using a unique numbered RFID tag provides a very efficient method of identifying animals and collecting data far more quickly. Each unique RFID tag can be linked to a database that includes that animal’s specific information such as date of birth, inoculations, breeding specifics such as blood relation, and more.

1. Functions
* Identity identification for livestock and poultry
Every electronic tag or foot ring has a Unique Identification Code, and the chip has a lifespan of over thirty years, therefore, the code stored in the chip can be used as a life-long electronic identification for the livestock or poultry. Just by scanning the tag with a hand-hold reader or a fixed reader, the manager can acquire identity information of the livestock or poultry, and call out its electronic records from the central database by entering this identification code.
* Livestock and Poultry quarantine and health information search
Information on vaccination, epidemic disease and health can be inquired through this system.
* Scientific rearing and species optimization
The system can supervise the living situation of the livestock or poultry. Therefore, real-time examination of the body condition and feeding condition of the livestock or poultry can be conducted, which paves the way for scientific rearing as well as strengthening lineage management, controlling close breeding and promoting species optimization.
* Epidemic situation control and food sanitation supervision
Electronic ear tag or foot ring tracking system is a key measure for supervision source of harmful food. It can detect epidemic situation, epidemic-stricken area and epidemic individual timely and effectively, and provide animal supervision department with basis for controlling the epidemic situation effectively.

2. System structure
The system is composed of hardware system and software system. The former system is composed of electronic tag, reader, and computer, performing data collection and information transmission. The latter system is mainly composed of terminal software, and database software, performing information entry, management and analysis.

3. Terminal operation mode
* Fix the electronic ear tag or foot ring to the livestock or poultry with specialized tool
* Read information with hand-hold reader
* Build electronic records and submit it to the central database

For livestock and other large animals we recommend our external FDX-B Ear Tag which provides read rates that are twice as fast as the HDXS tags. These cost effective external Ear Tags can be read by either our Compact Flash HDX-B reader that is easily inserted into any portable computer or PDA that has a compact flash slot. While this is a very useful reader for occasional reading our HDX-B paddle or HDX-B wand readers are hardier and provide additional features and functions that are not available on the CF HDX-B reader.
The Ear Tags require the Ear Tag Tagger to correctly pierce and insert the Ear Tags.
For smaller animals we recommend the bio-glass injectable tag. This injectable tag is available in both 125 kHz. and 134.2 kHz frequencies.
To learn more on how DOOWA RFID can help you manage your animals for greater profit and less risk; please contact us at info@doowa-rfid.com.