August 28, 2006
Cattle producers embracing wireless
Agricultural technology company TekVet is using IBM services to power its wireless radio frequency identification technology that monitors the health of livestock to help ensure the safety of beef and dairy products. [via News.com]
"The live tracking technology in which an RFID sensor inserted into an animal's ear relays its body temperature, location and more to a series of wireless receiving stations from a range of 300 feet to 500 feet away. The collected data of millions of cows at a time are then transmitted to TekVet's data center of IBM servers via a private satellite network.
TekVet customers can access the temperature and animal identification information online to evaluate the health of their cattle for a wide range of infections and medical conditions."
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