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    Implementation of RFID technology in live stock management
    (University of Management and Technology, 2016) Azeem, Muhammad
    Since past few year Dairy Industry in Pakistan dramatically grown, Major investors are investing in Dairy Farming and in result Many Corporate Dairy Farms developed since 2009 with capacity of minimum 2,000 Animals to 10,000 Animals, Data Belonging to Animals is backbone for any Dairy Farm It’s essential for any Dairy Farm to have up-to-date and correct data specially which can help evaluations of Animals Health, Milk Production, Reproduction, Animals are livestock and their identification has major role to keep them tracking specially 2,000 to 10,000 animals it’s very difficult to recognize animals without their ID. Normally Animals have Visual Ear Tags which shows Identification Number and it helps to track that Animal by viewing Identification number by Human eye, but when there is Large groups of Animals e.g. 5,000 Animals, it’s very difficult to check each Animal by visual Tags, record their Health Issues, Treatments, Calving, Reproduction, Milk, Feeding, Animals Sales, specially 4 Times Milking per day which mean 5,000 X 4 = 20,000 Animals Record per day only to record Milking. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) System is one which can solve this problem, RFID tags applies to each Animal’s ear, RFID Tag has unique Identification, by which we can track Animals Lifecycle. The reason of using RFID in Animals is that Animals are moving objects we can’t bound animals to be scan like Barcodes, to overcome this problem RFID is the best solution by using RFID as animal is free to move and when it comes at narrow path where RFID scanner is installed, Scanner interact with tag, electronically activates RFID Tag, hence RFID Tag send back its information carrying Identification number to scanner, scanner then send Identification to Database to extract, update Animals Record. This project is about RFID Implementation and Applications in a Live Stock Dairy Farm, which will present importance of RFID, need of RFID, its Different Applications, Environmental issues which effects read orientation, resolutions of issues, its draw backs. This project will mainly focus on RFID Implementation, different operations issues and applications in Dairy Farming.