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RFID Solution Of Animal Identification:
Injectable RFID tags are now available.They are injected to remain under the skin of the animal while delivered through a special syringe, their advantage is that they are less painful also there is no outside identification mark for a malicious person to know where the tag is embedded in order to remove it or modify it.The RFID chip inside the tag is generally ‘Read-Only” so that data once recorded cannot be modified.
The concept of animal tagging is nothing new. In early days, the various cattle farms and ranches used methods like branding irons, to label the name or symbol of the ranch to which an animal belonged.A red hot branding iron, having the proprietary mark of the farmer or rancher, was used on the poor animal to etch out a mark on its hide.(This is the origin of the term “brand” for an item. Surprising, isn’t it?).
As with any other technology, the same technology was used to prevent shoplifting in a grocery mall as well as a jewelry shop. As expected, the grocery mall’s investment did not pay off much (as the cost of the goods shoplifted was less than the cost of installing and maintaining the expensive security systems). The only place where this system gave a good ROI (Return on Investment) was in the jewelry shops, where each small item (say a diamond ring), is much more expensive than a grocery item.
Present Situation
Branding gave way to physical plastic tags mounted on the animals in holes made in their ears specifically for this purpose, Though! identification was still done manually.This was the situation for cattle and other commercially raised animals and there was no system however for pets too.Therefore pet owners always had problems when it came to identifying lost pets.
Usually they had to rely on some birth mark or the animal’s response to a name when called out, or the animals affectionate reaction to the owner—a very subjective way of identification indeed.With the advent of RFID technology, the plastic dumb tags began to be replaced with RFID tags. They were still mounted in the same fashion, but now there were several more advantages. The first was that the tags were read easily from a distance, with a hand held reader. The tags themselves were just a number, but this number pointed to a large amount of data in a remote database which contained other information about the animal like age, vaccination and medication record.This made record keeping easy and efficient without becoming a pain for the ranch owner. It also satisfied emerging requirements about traceability and food safety, especially after the mad cow disease and similar scares.
GECOLEN RFID ANTI-THEFT SYSTEMS:
Each item to be protected is tagged with an RFID anti-theft tag, so those tags can be reused in many cases. The tag is typically attached by a strong string or a plastic band or by other means (similar to a price tag, sometimes it is the price tag), to the item (say for example an umbrella).
Now once a shoplifter takes this umbrella and walks to the exit then a large RFID door antenna placed near the exit detects the presence of the tag and sounds an alarm. In the case of a genuine shopper, if he/she takes the umbrella to the checkout counter, the clerk, after receiving the payment for the item, cuts the plastic band and removes the tag. The umbrella can now be carried by the shopper outside bypassing the door antennas without triggering any alarm. The store staff will then typically attach the same tag again to a new umbrella that would be now kept on the store shelf. Alternatively, in the case of a disposable tag, the checkout clerk will hold the item near a “tag killer” machine which kills (destroys) the tag by subjecting it to strong electromagnetic radiation and The tag, then though physically present on the item, will not trigger the alarm while passing through the door antenna field.
Advantages Over The Earlier System:
Likely Future Scenarios:
