New Zealand UHF Animal Tagging

The Dominion Post has a report about using UHF RFID to tag sheep, cattle and deer.

The report says

"The Government approved $23.3 million in the Budget to help pay for the cost of electronically tagging all cattle and deer by 2011. The funding will also cover the cost of Farms OnLine, an electronic database mapping out all farms, with records of their herds."

"But a study published by the RFID Pathfinder Group - a non-profit standards body - says an opportunity may be missed if "tried and tested" low-frequency RFID technology is used for tagging, as currently proposed."

The UHF RFID bands favoured by the RFID Group are 860 MHz and 960 MHz in preference to the 125 to 134 kHz system supported by the National Animal Identification and Tracing (NAIT) project.

Read the full story at http://www.stuff.co.nz/4633186a3600.html

RFID Pathfinder Group
http://www.rfid-pathfinder.org.nz