BOS: RFID Solution for swine disease management

28-04-2009 | Home | News

Better Online Solutions have announced the availability of BOSwine™ 1.0, an advanced RFID platform for monitoring the lifecycle of pigs, enabling preventative treatment for disease management.

Empowered by RFID tags, BOSwine 1.0 provides a computerised solution to track, monitor and control pigs’ lifecycle, including breeding, insemination, pregnant, vaccine, transportation, weight and whelping.

“Healthy mothers with healthy pregnancies equal healthy newborn pigs,” said Shalom Daskal, CEO of BOS, “by using the BOSwine™ real-time monitoring solution for swine farms can assure© a “healthy” life cycle .

Swine farm in Israel
BOSwine 1.0 was developed in cooperation with the largest swine farm in Israel, enabling the farmer to track and monitor the mother during her pregnancy and ensuring that© she receives the required vaccines. The solution offers real-time visibility and full traceability of the mother and the piglet, enabling automated track and control of health genealogy.

“BOSwine RFID Monitoring System can immediately identify symptoms that are associated with many common illnesses, including swine flu, allowing the BOSwine user to perform early, and more successful, treatment,” According to Yuval Viner, managing director of BOS RFID and Mobile© Solutions. “The earlier an illness is treated, the more effective treatment will be, thereby preventing the identified disease.”

Best of breed tags
BOS provides turnkey RFID solutions for the livestock industry, through which it supplies best-of-breed RFID tags for each animal, along with mobile and handheld readers, static wide-range readers, a BOS RFID process server, and software applications that manage the information and can be integrated with any ERP system. BOS also offers each of these elements – the RFID hardware components, the RFID BOServer, and the software – as stand-alone products.

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