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Queensland Tests RFID to Track Kangaroo Meat
According to Magellan's Roger Webber, the harvesting program will utilize passive 13.56 MHz high-frequency (HF) tags using Phase Jitter Modulation (PJM) technology that complies with the ISO 18000 Part 3 Mode 2 standard, and have 8 kilobits of memory.
"PJM technology provides very fast read and write capabilities—about 20 times faster than other HF tags," Webber says. "They also provide reliable read rates, even when tags are stacked close together."
The project will also use Magellan's Multiple Antenna Reader System (MARS) to read the tags. Two field depot operator workers will carry handheld interrogators out in the field, in order to encode a time stamp, the GPS location and other harvest details to the tag attached to a slaughtered kangaroo. Two handheld readers will also be utilized to record the movements of carcasses at a temporary storage facility, and again at the meat-processing center.
BCDS will host a central SQL database for the trial. At the field depots, a rugged mobile handheld computer running Windows Mobile 6.1 will upload information to the database in batch mode. If the project goes beyond the trial stage, BCDS plans to use a wireless wide area network (WWAN) radio to send transactional data back to the central database in real time.
In the main meat-processing plant, fixed Magellan RFID interrogators will read the animals' tags and update the database in real time.
The tags, Minister Mulherin says, will improve traceability, reduce the amount of paperwork and improve harvesting practices.
"We want to develop a cost-effective tag that will suit the requirements of all agencies and restore access to overseas markets," Mulherin states. "Industry stakeholders, including harvesters, processors and regulators, are supporting the trials because of the possibilities tags offer for opening market access and lowering costs."
"PJM technology provides very fast read and write capabilities—about 20 times faster than other HF tags," Webber says. "They also provide reliable read rates, even when tags are stacked close together."
The project will also use Magellan's Multiple Antenna Reader System (MARS) to read the tags. Two field depot operator workers will carry handheld interrogators out in the field, in order to encode a time stamp, the GPS location and other harvest details to the tag attached to a slaughtered kangaroo. Two handheld readers will also be utilized to record the movements of carcasses at a temporary storage facility, and again at the meat-processing center.
BCDS will host a central SQL database for the trial. At the field depots, a rugged mobile handheld computer running Windows Mobile 6.1 will upload information to the database in batch mode. If the project goes beyond the trial stage, BCDS plans to use a wireless wide area network (WWAN) radio to send transactional data back to the central database in real time.
In the main meat-processing plant, fixed Magellan RFID interrogators will read the animals' tags and update the database in real time.
"We want to develop a cost-effective tag that will suit the requirements of all agencies and restore access to overseas markets," Mulherin states. "Industry stakeholders, including harvesters, processors and regulators, are supporting the trials because of the possibilities tags offer for opening market access and lowering costs."
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