| Abstract: |
First, there was the “connected cow,” a term used by Fujitsu to describe its cattle breeding support service that leverages the Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data and the cloud to monitor female cow behavior. The goal is to understand when the animal is ready to breed, thereby increasing the cow population for meat and dairy farmers. Now, there’s the “secure swine,” a term that I just made up to describe a new use of microtags to authenticate livestock during meat packaging. As Automation World reported late last year in the feature story Taking a Bite Out of Crime, TruTag Technologies offers “edible memory” in the form of tiny microscopic particles made of silicon dioxide, also called silica. Silica is a compound that is edible and resistant to high temperatures. |
