Applying RFID to the pet´s information management to realize collaboration

The pet´s management involves several government departments and breeders, sellers, feeders, animal clinics, animal protection associations, which form a complex network that can be partitioned into thousands of pet-centric networks. By abstracting social roles from these networks´ participating actors, we generalize a structural model of the pet-centric network. This model is divided into three levels: the pet supply network, the epidemic-prevention network and pet care products supply chain. We propose that in the pet supply network the coordinating and steering mechanism is track and trace of pets, and in the epidemic-prevention network is collection and transfer of immunization records. Using Design Structure Matrix (DSM), we analyze and optimize information flows in these two networks and explain how coordinating and steering mechanisms work. In our solution to the pet´s management, RFID tags, pet pedigrees and the website based on SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) is the core.