Animal identification and data association
AssigneeScale Tec, Ltd.
InventorNicholas VON MUENSTER
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Abstract
A scale controller is in communication with a weighing scale for receiving a weight signal, translating the weight signal into a weight for the animal, receiving a wireless identification signal from a transmitter on the animal, translating the wireless identification signal into an animal identification value, associating the weight of the animal with the animal identification value, and transmitting to a data storage unit a data packet containing the weight of the animal and the animal identification value.
Claims16
An animal weighing system comprising:
- a weighing scale for translating a weight of the animal into a weight signal;
- and
- a scale controller in communication with the weighing scale configured for:
- receiving the weight signal,
- translating the weight signal into a weight for the animal,
- receiving a wireless identification signal from a transmitter on the animal,
- translating the wireless identification signal into an animal identification value,
- associating the weight of the animal with the animal identification value, and
- transmitting to a data storage unit a data packet containing the weight of the animal and the animal identification value.
A method for animal management, the method comprising:
- receiving a weight signal from a weighing scale;
- translating the weight signal into a weight for an animal;
- receiving a wireless identification signal from a transmitter on an animal,
- translating the wireless identification signal into an animal identification value;
- associating the weight of the animal with an animal identification value;
- and
- transmitting to a data storage unit a data packet containing the weight of the animal and the animal identification value.
The method of claim 13, and further comprising receiving the wireless identification signal from the animal with an antenna.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.