Title :
Towards RFID traceability systems of farmed fish supply chain
Author :
Trebar, Mira ; Grah, Andrej ; Melcon, Alejandro Alvarez ; Parreno, Alfredo
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., Univ. of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Abstract :
In the project “RFID from Farm to Fork” an implementation of RFID technologies will be used along the food supply chain: from farm to the consumer. The paper is intended to highlight two examples of how to define farmed fish traceability system suitable for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). The first one presents a change from a manual collection of data to an electronic RFID implementation in a small company that performs a complete supply chain from fish farm to retail and private customers. In the second one, a part of already automated process of packing fish using barcode labeling will be upgraded by RFID technology, and traceability will be extended back to breeding and on-growing fish farms, which currently use manual collection of data. The proposed design and selection of fixed and mobile RFID readers in different steps of pilot implementation are defined as modules which could be used as a general approach to apply an automated business process.
Keywords :
aquaculture; bar codes; radiofrequency identification; supply chains; RFID technology; RFID traceability systems; automated business process; barcode labeling; farmed fish supply chain; farmed fish traceability system; fish packing automated process; mobile RFID readers; on-growing fish farms; small and medium sized enterprises; Boats; Hardware; Marine animals; Radiofrequency identification; Software; Supply chains;
Conference_Titel :
Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM), 2011 19th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Split
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1439-9