Welcome to the website of the New Zealand RFID Pathfinder Group


The New Zealand RFID Pathfinder Group is a non-profit, membership based incorporated society. Our vision is for New Zealand to achieve superior economic and competitive performance through the adoption of RFID and EPC technologies. Our mission is to make the process of evolution (or revolution) faster and make the result optimal. We will work with industry and individuals to educate, research, pilot and implement RFID to provide valuable leanings for our members.

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After Fives Report available
A report and slides from the August After Fives are now available! Time to revisit Mark Roberti's interesting talk or catch up if you missed it.
Read the report here
 
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UHF discussion forum for livestock industry
A UHF Discussion forum has been set up together with the Scottish Government Livestock web site to share knowledge and experience.

The use of Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) has the potential to offer substantial benefits to the livestock industry. However, RFID technology itself can take a number of forms and continues to evolve, highlighting the importance of retaining openness to different technical options and of the need for independent, empirical field-testing of particular applications.

Theoretically Ultra High Frequency has much to recommend it, however the current state of practical knowledge needs improvement. Whilst a tremendous amount of research is presently being conducted worldwide there is no central hub for the collation and distribution of this information by the various interested parties.

This forum is therefore an attempt to rectify this. Therefore please feel free to use this forum to help collate knowledge, exchange ideas and share experiences in the field of UHF Animal RFID.

Register and participate at http://uhf-forum.scoteid.com/
 
New version of regulatory status RFID in UHF spectrum
A new version of the regulatory status for using RFID in the UHF spectrum dated 25 November 2011 is available at http://www.gs1.org/epcglobal/implementation following an update of the information related to Brunei Darussalam and Russian Federation.
 
Report on UHF livestock tracking trials available
Rural IT specialist Rezare Systems ran trials with UHF ear tags for the RFID of livstock during October-November last year. These on-farm trials were carried out withbacking from Deer Industry New Zealand, the Meat Industry Association, New Zealand Trade and Enterprise, ANZCO, Landcorp Farming, GS1 and the New Zealand RFID Pathfinder Group.
The trials have provided further demonstration of how suitable this technology can be, especially for use with deer and sheep. The full report is now available for you.

 Download the Rezare report.
 
USDA Approves First UHF Tag for Animal Identification System
From RFID Journal, january 2010 - The agricultural department says an EPC Gen 2 RFID tag from Eriginate can serve as an alternative to low-frequency RFID tags for use with its National Animal Identification System.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has approved a passive ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) RFID tag for cattle tracking that will be used in conjunction with the agency's Animal Identification Number (AIN) system.
Read the full RFID Journal article here.

Read relevant articles on Pathfinder research concerning animal tagging:
New Zealand Study Finds UHF Superior for Livestock Tracking
On farm trials with UHF ear tags for NAIT


 
On-farm trials with UHF ear tags for NAIT
tagged deer On-farm trials in the use of UHF (ultra-high frequency) ear tags for the RFID (radio frequency identification) of livestock have provided further demonstration of how suitable this technology can be, especially for use with deer and sheep.
Rural IT specialist Rezare Systems ran the trials during October-November, with backing from Deer Industry New Zealand, the Meat Industry Association, New Zealand Trade and Enterprise, ANZCO, Landcorp Farming, GS1 and the New Zealand RFID Pathfinder Group.
You can read the full report here.
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