Currently animal tracking and recognition systems require a great amount of devices and sensors which need to undergo continuous maintenance. Some of them are also invasive for animals, putting them in stressful life long conditions. This applies to both livestock and pet animals.
R&D PROJECT
Photo Artificial intelligence Identification
PHAID is a contactless biometric AI (Artificial Intelligence) recognition tool used for livestock identification and easy traceability. Its main goal is to improve animal health and welfare and to guarantee the safety of animal derived products. This innovative technology is able to recognize bovines with a extremely high accuracy and it is currently being adapted to domestic pets and other livestock species.
WHY PhAID
The need to identify and track cattle instantly and cost effectively is a daily necessity for all the entity involved in the entire supply chain and is crucial for health, safety and efficiency.
Major advantages of Biometric Animal Recognition
The PHAID system surpasses traditional traceability systems (ear tags, boluses and RFID chips)
in a number of groundbreaking ways:
in a number of groundbreaking ways:
Features
PhAID is the first animal recognition system, capable of using images of cattle faces, by exploiting AI and Computer vision based technologies through the use of convolutive neural networks (CNN).
PARTNERS
AIMAGE LAB
AImageLab is the main technological partner of Farm4Trade for the development of contactless biometric identification systems of the animals.
IZSAM
The IZSAM has financed the PhAID project in order to integrate the biometric technologies with the national cattle registry and allow an improvement of the animal identification and traceability systems.
