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 2015 International Conference on Innovation Information in Computing Technologies(ICIICT),Chennai,India

ANIMAL IDENTIFICATION AND DATA MANAGEMENT

USING RFID TECHNOLOGY

Mrs.V.Maria Anu.M.E Deepika.M.I Mrs. L.Mary Gladance

Asst. Professor, Student, Asst. Professor,
Faculty of Computing, Faculty of Computing, Faculty of Computing,
Sathyabama University. Sathyabama University. Sathyabama University.

ABSTRACT
Efficient identification of tags has been an essential operation for Radio Frequency
IDentification (RFID) systems. In this paper, we consider the basic problem of collecting all
tags in a large-scale system through a handheld RFID reader. A sensor network which uses
wireless technology is proposed for monitoring of farm animals. The major parts of the farm
environmental system are monitoring centre, monitoring nodes and base station. Intricate
farm animal monitoring is done across intensive area. This paper is contributes and illustrates
a new farm environment monitoring system design. Animals in specified range are connected
by sending the continuous information to the readers. This system provides the potential
support from threats against missing animals from the farm and database security.

1. INTRODUCTION The most flexible auto-identification

Radio frequency identification (RFID)
uses radio waves for identification and to
trail objects. RFID is a wireless
communication which uses the bar coding
mechanism.
x Items can be indentified uniquely.
x Items can be identified with the
help of frequency without
unobstructed transmission.
x Numerous items are identified.
x Items can be identified for more
than few meters.
x Tags and readers are used for
communication in RFID systems.
x Tags are small and little power is
only required to store and to swap
data.
x Low power consumption and the
small size makes it straight forward
to apply to all the things.
technology, tracking and monitoring of
objects can be automatically done with
accuracy using RFID. It tells about the
object, where it is, and even its condition,
so that it is integrated to the development
of the Internet of Things—a globally
interconnected web of objects allowing the
physical world itself to become an
information system. Low price to tag all
the items hurriedly mounts the RFID
technology. RFID is used in many real
time applications like tracking of assets,
management of supply chain and many
other applications.
Communication is done with the frequency
which is between the RFID system and the
object. Low Frequency (LF), High
Frequency (HF), Ultra High Frequency
(UHF) are the three modes in which RFID
operates. Each mode has its own
advantages and disadvantages related to
the frequency used in the RFID.

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In active RFID systems, tags have their
own transmitter and power source that is
battery. In active tags to transmit
information from microchips they
broadcast their own signal.
Commonly active RFID systems work in
ultra-high frequency (UHF) band and
ranges up to 100 m. Generally, active tags
are used on huge objects, and assets that
need to be tracked over long distances.
2. RELATED WORK
Recent works tells about a single animal
and stores data about the single animal. [1]
It tells about the phantom mouse which is
been examined in the laboratory and then
it has been stored in the database [1] [5],
the mouse is examined within a small area
and the common uncomplicated cell of the
system. [2] [3] tells about the mobile
networks which are used in RFID
technology for monitoring animals.
RFID is a wireless technology as mobile
technology so that it can be used in all
places to monitor the movement of animals
[2] in this paper they tell about the mobile
app which is used to store data about the
animals and to know about them when
needed. [1] [4] tells about the single
animal and stores data about that animal
and it has all the medical and physical
information only about that animal. [5] [7]
tells about the dairy farm that has cows
and only deals with the cow and products
of them. It tells about the temperature raise
and the changes happening when
temperature raises. In this it also tells
about the manual work which is difficult to
maintain and a lot of human resource is
needed to maintain the details of animals.
Technological development is under
progress in a wide range of fields for
improved efficiency of the livestock
management systems. [3] Especially, IT-
based systems applied with the RFID
technology operates to automatically
control the environment which is used for
animals present in the farm and for the
management of animals through the
integrated network which is interrelated
with the farm community management [4].
Supply chain management also uses RFID
technology to know the movement of
goods from one place to another.
3. PROPOSED
METHODOLOGY
In this paper, we use active RFID
technology. It helps to detect the animals
which are lost with the help of the RFID
tags inserted in the animals and readers
which are used to detect the tags.
Active RFID is used to detect the animals
and it also shows the location where the
animals are currently located. The location
of the animals are sent as message to the
authority immediately when they cross the
border or lost from their native
environment.
Five modules through which the lost
animals are detected using RFID and then
the alert is sent to the authority using
GSM.
3.1 RF IMPLEMENTATION
High performance active RFID: Active
tags are read only, they contain a unique
ID which distinguishes the animals in the
farm. They have a small size so that they
can fit in smaller surface area and hence
they can be affected into even smaller
animals. The lifetime of active tags is
broadly large, up to 30 years, some could
last indefinitely.
These tags have a lower overall cost, both
in maintenance and installation, they
respond when they are induced by the RF
electromagnetic waves sent by the reader.
The tag reflects the transmitted signal and
modulates it back to the reader thanks to
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the integrated circuit attached to an Database inflects the following:

antenna.
¾ Farm data management with
Radio Frequency readers: Movable security.
devices that could be carried out by
farmers while walking through the farm. ¾ RFID management.
They should be designed to transmit radio
energy to the tag and therefore power ¾ Updating batch information.
source the circuit in the tag. The reader
then reads the identifier of the tag and the ¾ Parturition and similar breed
geo-location of the animal and animals are tracked.
communicates the information to the main
workstation or the server (back office ¾ Tracking of animal vaccination .
where the database and the user interface
are located). ¾ Tracking of medication.

Circular polarization antenna: It can ¾ Tracking of diseases.

read tags in different orientations,
decreases the possibility of signal loss to
its shape, receives and spread signals in all
directions, horizontal, vertical and between
them completing a 360 degree revolution
and provides a coverage area of at least 30
meters.
3.2 FARM INFORMATION
Enormous data can be managed and stored
which is used for identification. Identity of
the animal and the inflections are stored in
the database.
Database holds the progress of animal
data. It is divided into ingress and egress
functions. Ingress is the birth of new
animals and egress is death of the animals
in the farm.
3.3 DATABASE SUBSYSTEM
¾ Tracking of animal’s diet.
¾ General animal’s log.
¾ Deleting the records of dead or
transferred animals from the
database.
3.4 USER INTERFACE
The user interface assures the basic needs
like:
(i) Local database should ensure input
of all the information regarding the
farm.
(ii) Users who are not well versed
with technology also should be
able to use the application for
updation (user friendly).

The database holds information about the
animals and spots the light in tracking and
history of their data. It manages data about
stockbreeders, vaccination and other
functionalities.
Database is confidential and used only by
the authorized users with the username and
password.
The user interface consists of form which
are submitted by farmer, veterinarian for
retrieval and updation of the database.
Farmer menu:
¾ Birth
¾ Tagging for born animals
¾ Training of animals
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¾ Quantity of milk and wool the server holds all the information for
produced communication through RFID and GSM.
¾ Animal weight and nutrition
¾ Ethnology observation
¾ Egress functionality

Veterinarian menu:

¾ Birth
¾ Tagging for born animals
¾ Fertility and reproductive
capability are examined.
¾ Vaccination and hormones
¾ Analysis and outcome of the
disease.
¾ Castration
¾ Dead animals

3.5 SMS ALERT

This module is used to alert the authority
about the animals, sends details of the
animals to the authority when they cross
the border through SMS for security.
When, the RFID gets alert about the
animals it in turn sends alert to the GSM
which sends the message to the needed
authority about the animals. The SMS is
sent via GSM which has the number and
details of the authority. When the animals
cross the border the message is sent to the
farmers or the authority of the farm,
messages about medication is sent to the
veterinarian.
4. ARCHITECTURE
The Veterinarian updates the database
about the animals, when it has to be
vaccinated, breed, reproductivity, etc.
Farmer updates about the productivity of
milk, wool, meat, birth, weight, etc.
According to ingress and egress characters
the animals are tagged and these
functionalities are read by RFID and alerts
are sent when and where they have to be
improved. Farm Database is updated and
5. FUTURE ENHANCEMENTS
In this paper we identify and examine the
characteristics of animals with the help of
the data present in the database and store
the examined content again in the database
to alert, when they have to be vaccinated.
High productivity animals can be cross
breeded so that we get a high quality
product and can increase the production.
Filtering of these datas can be done using
some threshold value in the production
field so that we can identify the animals
easily. Sorting algorithms can be used to
find the productivity of animals from the
database.
6. CONCLUSION
RFID is used for alerting the authority
about the animals when they are cross the
border of the farm and they have to be
vaccinated. Database management is the
main aim of this paper that is done by
veterinarian and the farmer by storing
animal based datas in it, which will be
helpful for future works. The other work in
this paper is sending SMS to the authority
using GSM which is alerted by the RFID.
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Acknowledgements
We would like to express our thanks to our
Department of Information Technology,
and Sathyabama University for
encouraging our work. We would like to
thank the anonymous commentators for
their valuable comments.
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