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Evidence Needed On Electronic Tagging

To meet EU Regulations coming into force on January 2010 we need evidence, based on field working conditions, on costs, losses, accuracy, speed and other practical issues of introducing electronic identification for sheep

Markets and Abattoirs throughout Scotland are working to deal with these issues.
We need partner farms to work with them to be one step ahead. Partner farms will receive EID tags, non-EID tags and applicators for free. Read more here

Becoming a partner farm
Applying online (preferred option)
Register with this website (how to). Login to the website then click this link and follow the instructions
Paper Application
If at all possible we would prefer an online application. However, if this is not possible a paper copy can either be downloaded here or requested by contacting Susan Brown: Tel: 07787 141940 (9am-5pm) or Email: susan@scoteid.com

Fixed Reader Installations

Wed, 13/05/2009 - 6:24pm — administrator

We are very pleased to report that several fixed readers have now been installed in marts and abattoirs. Many thanks to all involved for their hard work. Click any of the pictures for a bigger view.

United Auctions Stirling

The image below shows a sheep lot, with mixed eartags, passing through the reader installed by Livestock EID Solutions at United Auctions Stirling.
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The reader consists of a double race allowing sheep to pass through either side. The reader is linked via Bluetooth to a laptop running software developed by Newline which uploads data automatically to the website.

St Boswells Livestock Centre

The image below shows a sheep lot, with mixed eartags, passing through the reader installed by Tagmaster at Newton St Boswells Auction mart
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The reader consists of a table structure holding several flat horizontal antennas followed by three arched antennas. A pc with touchscreen together with the ScotEID software has been used to upload data in real-time.

Scotbeef (abattoir)

Shown below is the EDiT iD reader which has been installed by Newgate Technology at Scotbeef (Bridge of Allan).
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RFID reader antenna panel suspended above the elevator in the lairage
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The RFID reader control unit (red), power supply and all-in-one pc & touchscreen display
The touch panel pc is mounted on a swivelling arm so it can be moved out of the way when not in use. The PC is using the ScotEID Java Software to upload data to the website in real time using a custom config file (settings.yml which is located in the .scoteid folder.

McIntosh Donald (abattoir)

Shown below is the Agrident reader installed by Cox Agri at McIntosh Donald
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RFID reader antenna panel mounted on concrete on the left side of the race just before the elevator
The reader is connected to a computer in the office several hundred feet away using rs232 to ethernet adapters. The ScotEID software has been used to automatically upload the data in realtime.

Aberdeen & Northern Marts

Nedap Agri have installed a race reader in Aberdeen & Northern Marts (Thainstone).
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The race reader uses Nedap's own bespoke software to upload data to the website in real time. The reader has been in continuous use since the end of January and allows all of the sheep leaving the auction ring to pass through without slowing throughput.

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