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RFID Livestock Tracking System

Agriculture · LF/UHF RFID

Every Animal. Every Record.

Modern dairy farms, cattle ranches, poultry operations, and aquaculture facilities rely on individual-animal identification. Identium’s RFID Livestock Tracking issues durable ear tags, logs breeding & health records, tracks dairy yields, and supports regulatory traceability.

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Powerful Features

Built for Scale, Precision & Speed

Modern dairy farms, cattle ranches, poultry operations, and aquaculture facilities rely on individual-animal identification. Here are the capabilities you get with Identium.

Durable Ear Tags

LF or UHF ear tags designed for years of field life — sunlight, rain, rubbing.

Breeding & Parentage

Full lineage tracking — dam, sire, offspring — with breeding-cycle management.

Vaccination Records

Per-animal vaccination history, booster reminders, disease-outbreak tracing.

Milk Yield Tracking

RFID reader at milking parlour logs yield per animal per cycle.

Weight & Growth

Handheld reads at weigh-bridge correlate weight to genetics and feed program.

Health Monitoring

Flag animals with abnormal patterns — reduced feed, missed milkings, unusual movement.

Regulatory Compliance

electronic ID traceability built to ISO 11784/11785, the standard export programmes are written around.

Farm-to-table Traceability

Per-animal record from birth through processing — premium for organic/traceable markets.

Mobile Farm App

Farm hands log observations and treatments via a phone app tied to the animal’s RFID.

How It Works

Three-Layer RFID Architecture

A clean flow from tagging to real-time dashboards — built for operational scale.

1

Ear-tag at birth

RFID ear tags attached to every animal — registered in the herd master.

2

Read in pens & parlour

Handheld reads during health checks; fixed readers at milking parlour and weigh-bridge.

3

Farm intelligence

Breeding, health, yield, and compliance records in one platform.

Hardware & Tags

Enterprise-grade UHF/HF RFID hardware, sourced from our sister store IndiaRFIDStore.com.

RFID livestock ear tag

RFID Livestock Ear Tag

Durable LF/UHF ear tags for cattle, sheep, goat — individual animal identification and records.

 RFID handheld reader

RFID Handheld Reader

Portable UHF scanners with Wi-Fi/BT connectivity for on-the-go asset verification and mobile audits.

 UHF RFID gate reader

UHF RFID Gate Reader

Fixed UHF gate reader for automated entry/exit tracking at warehouse doors and checkpoints.

 UHF RFID antenna

UHF RFID Antenna

Circular-polarised 9dBi/12dBi UHF antennas — extend reader range and multi-port coverage.

Use Cases

Deployed Across These Industries

Identium is trusted by organisations in manufacturing, retail, healthcare, logistics, events, and the public sector.

Dairy Farms · Cattle Ranches · Sheep Farming · Goat Farming · Poultry · Swine · Aquaculture · Govt. Livestock Dept.

Smart farming starts here.

Pilot RFID on one herd — scale across every pen and parlour.

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Picking the frequency and the read points before you tag a herd

The animal is the hardest part of the RF environment. Cattle are largely water, and water absorbs and detunes UHF energy, so a UHF ear tag on a wet ear behaves nothing like the same tag on a carton. Low frequency (125/134 kHz) works by magnetic near-field coupling at short range and is far less affected by mud, dung or a wet hide, which is why LF remains the long-established choice for identifying one animal at close quarters. UHF at 865-868 MHz — India’s licence-exempt band under WPC as of 2026 — reaches further and can log several animals in one pass. Neither is better in the abstract; the read point decides.

LF ear tag (125/134 kHz)UHF ear tag (865-868 MHz)
Standard wordingISO 11784/11785, FDX-B at 134.2 kHzEPC Gen2 (ISO/IEC 18000-63), marketed as RAIN RFID — passive UHF only
Typical readCentimetres at a time, one animalTypically a few metres, falling off with tag orientation and a wet hide
Group or gateway readsNot practical — one animal at a timeA small group per pass, if the antennas are placed well
Mud, dung, wet coatVery little effectNoticeable loss; plan for it
SuitsParlour stall, crush, weigh crate, handheld checksRace exits, loading gates, pen entrances

Treat those ranges as indicative rather than specified: what you actually get depends on the reader, the antenna, tag orientation, where the animal is standing and how much metal surrounds it, so prove it with a trial at your own race or parlour before you commit to a layout.

Read points deserve as much thought as the tag. A cattle race and headlock gates are often galvanised steel, and metal that close detunes a UHF antenna bolted flat to the frame; stand the antenna off the metal, aim it across the animal’s path rather than straight down the race, and commission it with animals actually in position instead of an empty pen. Wet, muddy animals in a crowded race are the worst case, so test then, not on a dry morning. At the parlour the short range of LF is an advantage, because it will not pick up the cow in the next stall.

Tag build decides whether you are still reading the whole herd several seasons in. Our livestock ear tags are moulded from thermoplastic polyurethane as a two-piece male-female lock that goes in with a standard applicator, and the visual number is laser-marked rather than ink-printed, so it does not fade the way ink can under sun, mud and rubbing — and the number on the tag keeps matching the ID encoded in the chip. Tags can be encoded and numbered to your own herd or scheme numbering. Identium is BIS certified and our UHF readers and antennas are WPC-approved for India’s licence-exempt UHF RFID band (our position as of 2026; WPC and BIS remain the authorities to verify against). Customised tag orders typically ship in 5-10 days, after the units are tested in-house.

Frequently asked questions

Can one ear tag be read at both the milking parlour and the exit gate?

Only if both read points work on the same band. An LF ear tag built to ISO 11784/11785 (FDX-B at 134.2 kHz) is invisible to a UHF reader, and a passive UHF tag — EPC Gen2, ISO/IEC 18000-63, marketed as RAIN RFID — is invisible to an LF reader. Different physics and different standards, not a setting you change in a menu. So decide before you start tagging. Standardise on LF and accept close-range, one-animal reads at every point. Standardise on UHF and put the work into antenna placement, including stopping a stall reader from picking up the cow next door. Or fit two tags where both jobs genuinely matter. Retro-fitting a second tag across an already-tagged herd is the expensive outcome, so trial both read points before the applicator comes out.

What reader and antenna hardware do I need at each read point on the farm?

It depends on the band and on the read point. At a race exit or loading gate on UHF you want a fixed or portal reader with external antennas — our HLR200 gate portal is specified up to around 4 m across the opening, and expect less with animals, wet hides and steelwork in the path — with circular-polarised 9 dBi or 12 dBi antennas stood off the frame rather than bolted flat to it. For pen walks, health checks and weigh-crate work, an Android handheld such as the CX1500N puts the herd record in the handler's hand. LF ear tags are a separate build: they need a reader made for ISO 11784/11785 FDX-B at 134.2 kHz, because a UHF reader will not see them whatever its range. Every reader we supply ships with an SDK, demo application and source code, so reads can be pushed into your own herd software.

What drives the cost of an RFID livestock tracking system in India?

Three lines, and they scale differently. Tags are a per-animal cost, driven by frequency, chip, tag material and whether you need laser-marked numbering to a herd or government scheme. Read points are a fixed cost per location — reader, antennas, mounting, enclosure, cabling and power at the parlour, weigh crate or race exit — so a large herd with one read point can work out lighter than a small herd wanting four. Integration into your existing herd or dairy records is the third, and it varies the most: pushing reads into a spreadsheet is not the same job as writing into an established dairy package. We quote against a written specification rather than publish a rate, because herd size, read points and the records you need change the answer completely.

Ear tag or injectable transponder — which suits insured or financed animals?

Ear tags for day-to-day herd work; an injectable glass transponder where the identity has to be hard to move between animals. An ear tag goes in quickly with a standard applicator and is easy to read and easy to replace, but it can be lost, torn out or cut off — which is the reason usually given when an insurer or a lender financing livestock asks for an identity that stays inside the animal. Identium manufactures the ear-tag side: two-piece TPU tags that lock with a standard applicator, laser-marked rather than ink-printed so the number survives sun and rubbing, and encoded to your own herd or scheme numbering. The injectable route is an LF glass transponder to ISO 11784/11785 at 134.2 kHz, placed by a veterinarian. Either way, confirm with the insurer or scheme which number is the animal's identity of record — the rules vary — and keep the marked number matched to the encoded ID.

Do I need a licence or approval to run RFID readers on a farm in India?

You do not take out a spectrum licence of your own to run a reader, but the equipment does need approval. As of 2026, India's licence-exempt UHF allocation is 865-868 MHz under WPC's Short Range Devices (Exemption from Licence) Rules, 2021, so a farm running compliant readers in that band is not applying for a radio licence for the shed; what matters is that the reader and antenna you buy carry WPC equipment approval for that allocation. Watch the band figures on any imported datasheet — India and Europe both use 865-868 MHz, but hardware built for the US plan at roughly 902-928 MHz is not usable here until it is reconfigured for the Indian band, and some of it is region-locked. Identium holds BIS certification, and our UHF readers and antennas are WPC-approved for India's licence-exempt UHF RFID band. That is our position as of 2026; WPC and BIS remain the authorities to verify against, and state animal husbandry rules on tagging, plus any scheme numbering, are a separate matter.

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