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RFID News Roundup
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04/24/2008
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Motorola offers new reader with antenna port options; Ekahau releases Wi-Fi RTLS personnel badge; PowerID ships battery-assisted EPC Gen 2 RFID tag; Secura Shield announces RFID-enabled e-seals for tracking containers; Thin Battery Technologies unveils two new printed batteries; USDA providing 1.5 million RFID tags to track cattle.
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USDA Pushes Plan to Move NAIS Forward
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04/03/2008
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture's seven-point plan is aimed at getting 70 percent of all cattle in the country enrolled in the National Animal Identification System by 2010.
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ZigBeef Offers Ranchers a Long-Distance Cattle Head Count
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02/21/2008
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The long-range RFID system promises to provide ranchers, their commercial interests and rodeos an easier method for tracking their animals, through ZigBee technology.
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New Ear Tags for Animals
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02/14/2008
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Low-cost HF and UHF identification tags for cattle, pigs and chickens could speed up RFID adoption in the livestock industry.
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Uruguay's RFID-Based Beef-Tracking Program Tags 2 Million
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01/25/2008
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The nation, one of the world's leading beef exporters, hopes to have all 12 million of its cattle tagged by 2012, though the initiative faces some challenges.
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Intelleflex Demos Long-Distance Cattle Tags
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11/26/2007
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At the Calgary Stockyards, the systems provider showed that its battery-assisted passive RFID ear tags could be read on roaming animals inside a 30-by-15-foot auction ring.
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Wisconsin Ups RFID-Adoption Incentives for Cattle Growers
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01/31/2007
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In an attempt to encourage the use of RFID tags for the vast majority of the state's livestock, Wisconsin is covering 50 percent of the tags' cost.
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Beef Tracking, the RFID Way
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11/22/2006
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Canadian beef producer uses an RFID-based system to monitor the processing of cattle carcasses at its plant, as well as the location of each animal's meat throughout the supply chain.
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TekVet-IBM Cattle Tracker Uses Active RFID Tags, Satellite Communication
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08/24/2006
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With temperature sensors linked to battery-powered RFID tags, the system can record not only an animal's location, but also its health.
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Researchers Study Factors Degrading Cattle-Tag Performance
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07/12/2006
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Academics at Kansas State University will work with Tyson and other meat processors to understand better the environmental variables affecting RFID technology for beef-tracking.
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