IBM Tracks Chickens from Farm to Market Shelves with RFID Chips

RFID tracking of food production is on the rise, but IBM and is partners have developed technology that will take it to the next level, making item-level tagging of chickens possible from farms to retail shelves in Norway.

The RFID-tagged packaging will monitor the conditions of the poultry through the supply chain. The Electronic Product Code Information Services (EPCIS) standard will be used for the tracking, and the software suppliers and retailers use must also run EPCIS-compliant software to access the information.

According to an article on ComputerWeekly.com, The developers are looking into how to provide information to consumers on where animals have lived and what their diets consisted of. The information could then be accessed by mobile phone cameras, which could scan the barcode on the packaging.

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