Five Star ID Microchips
Five Star ID – Animal Identification Solutions for the Modern Game Farmer
The holding Company of Five Star ID has been helping pet owners, game farmers and conservationists with their research projects for over 15 years. Our Radio Frequency Animal Identification System has been used to identify a wide variety of animals. Although the system originally took off amongst domestic animals and pet owners, it quickly became apparent that our product offers endless possibilities in the wildlife sector. We are currently growing at an enormous pace in the industry as Game farmers become more technologically advanced and realise the tremendous benefits of our easy, paperless solutions. One of the main uses of our system today, is the identification of many animals sold privately or on auctions. It provides prospective buyers with ease of mind – giving them the history of each animal and knowing that they’re getting exactly what they pay for. Our system is also crucial for the professional breeder, who needs to clearly identify each animal in order to keep a clear record of parental lines. The application of our RFID system is endless and with our ISO-compliant products, our RFID microchips can be read with any ISO-approved scanner.
Identify and Monitor Wildlife with the Five Star ID Animal Identification System
In today’s Game farming environment, there are huge amounts of money involved and many risks to consider. At Five Star ID, we can help you to protect your investment by offering accurate identification with a unique 15 digit number. Biologists, ecologists and conservationists around the world use the Five Star ID Animal Identification System to identify wildlife species in their captive or natural habitats. Our highly experienced team will assist you in every possible way to help improve your research or breeding programs with the Five Star ID Animal Identification System. Although the instruments are perfect, the responsibility of using these instruments with all results are on the user.
Five Star ID Animal Identification Solutions for Wildlife
Five Star ID offers a range of ISO-compliant products for providing rapid, error-free individual animal identification. The holding Company of Five Star ID is a world leader in animal identification that develops, manufactures, and distributes specialty microchip products for Game farmers, domestic pet owners, research institutions, zoological parks and aquariums. When you purchase from Five Star ID; you get World class products that are proven safe and effective at identifying animals for research and breeding programs.
Five Star ID Animal Identification
Solutions for Wildlife
Five Star ID offers a range of ISO-compliant products
for providing rapid, error-free individual animal
identification. The holding Company of Five Star ID
is a world leader in animal identification that develops,
manufactures, and distributes specialty microchip
products for Game farmers, domestic pet owners,
research institutions, zoological parks and aquariums. When you purchase from Five Star ID; you get World class products that are proven safe and effective at identifying animals for research and breeding programs.
What is RFID?
Radio frequency identification, or RFID, is a generic term for technologies that use radio waves to automatically identify people or objects. There are several methods of identification, but the most common is to store a serial number that identifies a person or object, and perhaps other information, on a microchip that is attached to an antenna (the chip and the antenna together are called an RFID transponder or an RFID tag). The antenna enables the chip to transmit the identification information to a reader. The reader converts the radio waves reflected back from the RFID tag into digital information that can then be passed on to computers that can make use of it.
How does an RFID system work?
An RFID system consists of a tag, which is made up of a microchip with an antenna, and an interrogator or reader with an antenna. The reader sends out electromagnetic waves. The tag antenna is tuned to receive these waves. A passive RFID tag draws power from the magnetic field created by the reader and uses it to power the microchip’s circuits. The chip then modulates the waves that the tag sends back to the reader and the reader converts the new waves into digital data.
Are there any health risks associated with RFID and radio waves?
RFID uses the low-end of the electromagnetic spectrum. The waves coming from readers are no more dangerous than the waves coming to your car radio.
Five Star ID RFID Microchips
Marking wildlife with our RFID microchips is the safest way to permanently identify animals for research, breeding and the prevention of fraudulent activities. The transponder is about the size of a grain of rice (12mm length) and is injected into animals with a 12-gauge needle. Each RFID microchip has a unique individual identification number for positive animal identification. With our ISO compliant RFID microchips, animal species can be studied in their natural habitats with minimal interference.
Five Star ID Scanners
Five Star ID Scanners combine portability, versatility and performance in a rugged, lightweight functional design. Our handheld portable scanners vary from light duty minireaders to handheld units with rugged features useful for field applications. Due to the fact that Five Star ID Scanners are ISO compliant, they are practical for use in both field and clinic environments and provide the user with the ideal solution when portability and cost is important.
The Importance of ISO-Compliance
The RFID transponder also called “microchip” contains a radio sender unit and a radio receiver unit.
The transponder does not have a battery that can go faulty or flat with time but rather a battery that receives its charge when the scanner / reader is brought in close contact +/- 7cm from the transponder that activates the transponder.Once the transponder received its charge it responds by sending out its worldwide unique internal number (300 billion possibilities).
ISO, the International Organization for Standardization
http://www.iso.org/iso/home.html
ISO (International Organization for Standardization) is the world’s largest developer of voluntary International Standards.International Standards give state of the art specifications for products, services and good practice, helping to make industry more efficient and effective. Developed through global consensus, they help to break down barriers to international trade.
What is a standard?
A standard is a document that provides requirements, specifications, guidelines or characteristics that can be used consistently to ensure that materials, products, processes and services are fit for their purpose.
What are the benefits of ISO International Standards?
ISO International Standards ensure that products and services are safe, reliable and of good quality. They help companies to access new markets, level the playing field for developing countries and facilitate free and fair global trade.ISO also has standards for transponders / microchips (ISO 11784 / 11785). Its technical committee (with members worldwide) approves these standards and its members comply with these standards, by producing ISO compliant products.In this way they prevent monopolization of products by a specific supplier and help to make industry more efficient and effective. In the case of RFID for animals it ensures that ISO compliant readers can read ISO compliant transponders / chips.If a transponder complies with ISO 11784 / 11785 then it will have a 15 digit unique number that cannot be cloned or decoded.