The RFID-enabled dairy farm: Towards total farm management

Proceedings - 7th International Conference on Mobile Business, ICMB 2008, Creativity and Convergence

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 241-250

  Trevarthen, Adam ^a   Michael, Katina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; AUXILIARY TECHNOLOGY; BASIC FUNCTIONS; CASE STUDIES; DAIRY FARMS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FARM MANAGEMENT; IDENTIFICATION SCHEMES; IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; MOBILE BUSINESS; MOBILE NETWORKS; NEW SOUTH WALES; RADIO-FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION;

AGRICULTURE; FOOD PRODUCTS PLANTS; HEALTH; MANAGEMENT; MOBILE COMPUTING;

FARMS;

EID: 52149120922     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICMB.2008.39     Document Type: Conference Paper

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