P.PSH.1311 - Cost-efficient Livestock Smart tags for value chain and livestock management

Summary

Origo will develop cost effective smart tag tracking systems with sheep and cattle producers to capture individual animal location, movement and health data to enable productivity-driven improvement in livestock & pasture management and provide individual animal traceability (both on and off farm).

Objectives

This project's key objective is to develop a tag tracking and sensor system that utilises a meshing network technology with long-term per tag unit prices that are feasible for producers in high volume.

Key findings

MLA has decided to terminate the Agreement due to project outcomes to date elucidating limitations and technical challenges to the successful development of the proposed tagging system requiring additional research and evaluation that is beyond the scope of the current project.

Benefits to industry

The key benefit of the proposed tags over alternatives such as GPS enabled tags is a significant reduction in cost due to the other technologies reliance on subscription services to network providers for data transmission, be it satellite or mobile-based, whereas using Digimesh is their own private network.

Secondly, receivers for animal tag data will be Tank Stations, Weather Stations and any other Digimesh devices that are already there or simple Repeaters, so Producers do not have to invest in extra antennas and infrastructure. With the Value Chain Tag, the reader devices can also be in a Producers vehicle, weigh bridge or at a yard and provide an instant tally of animals without any costly infrastructure or having the livestock go through a crush or shute.

MLA action

MLA has decided to terminate the Agreement due to project outcomes to date elucidating limitations and technical challenges to the successful development of the proposed tagging system requiring additional research and evaluation that is beyond the scope of the current project.

Future research

MLA has decided to terminate the Agreement due to project outcomes to date elucidating limitations and technical challenges to the successful development of the proposed tagging system requiring additional research and evaluation that is beyond the scope of the current project.