TY - JOUR
T1 - Setting the stage to tag "n" track
T2 - a guideline for implementing, validating and reporting a radio frequency identification system for monitoring resource visit behavior in poultry
AU - Alindekon, Serge
AU - Rodenburg, T. Bas
AU - Langbein, Jan
AU - Puppe, Birger
AU - Wilmsmeier, Olaf
AU - Louton, Helen
N1 - Funding Information:
We are grateful to the library of Rostock University for facilitating access to the documentation used for this paper. We are also grateful to Wiebke Knoblauch, Arndt Schröder, Jolien Hacker, Lisa Quirin, Theresa Ludwig, and Yukari Togami for commenting and proofreading an earlier version of the manuscript. All these acknowledged persons are affiliated with the University of Rostock at the time of the manuscript's submission. Last, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to the reviewers for their valuable comments on the manuscript; their comments greatly contributed to the quality of our final manuscript. Funding: Serge Alindekon is a PhD student (since 2021/2022) whose research is cosponsored by the German Academic Exchange Service (grant No. 57552340) and the Professorship of Animal Health and Welfare of Rostock University. We acknowledge the financial support provided by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and Universität Rostock through the Open Access Publishing funding program. The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in the present study.
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PY - 2023/8
Y1 - 2023/8
N2 - Passive radio frequency identification (RFID) can advance poultry behavior research by enabling automated, individualized, longitudinal, in situ, and noninvasive monitoring; these features can usefully extend traditional approaches to animal behavior monitoring. Furthermore, since the technol-ogy can provide insight into the visiting patterns of tagged animals at functional resources (e.g., feeders), it can be used to investigate individuals' welfare, social position, and decision-making. However, the lack of guidelines that would facilitate implementing an RFID system for such investigations, describing it, and estab-lishing its validity undermines this technology's poten-tial for advancing poultry science. This paper aims to fill this gap by 1) providing a nontechnical overview of how RFID functions; 2) providing an overview of the practical applications of RFID technology in poultry sciences; 3) suggesting a roadmap for implementing an RFID system in poultry behavior research; 4) reviewing how validation studies of RFID systems have been done in farm animal behavior research, with a focus on terminologies and procedures for quantifying reliability and validity; and 5) suggesting a way to report on an RFID system deployed for animal behavior monitoring. This guideline is aimed mainly at animal scientists, RFID component manufacturers, and system integrators who wish to deploy RFID system as an automated tool for monitoring poultry behavior for research purposes. For such a particular application, it can complement indications in classic general standards (e.g., ISO/IEC 18000-63) and provide ideas for setting up, testing, and validating an RFID system and a standard for reporting on its adequacy and technical aspects.
AB - Passive radio frequency identification (RFID) can advance poultry behavior research by enabling automated, individualized, longitudinal, in situ, and noninvasive monitoring; these features can usefully extend traditional approaches to animal behavior monitoring. Furthermore, since the technol-ogy can provide insight into the visiting patterns of tagged animals at functional resources (e.g., feeders), it can be used to investigate individuals' welfare, social position, and decision-making. However, the lack of guidelines that would facilitate implementing an RFID system for such investigations, describing it, and estab-lishing its validity undermines this technology's poten-tial for advancing poultry science. This paper aims to fill this gap by 1) providing a nontechnical overview of how RFID functions; 2) providing an overview of the practical applications of RFID technology in poultry sciences; 3) suggesting a roadmap for implementing an RFID system in poultry behavior research; 4) reviewing how validation studies of RFID systems have been done in farm animal behavior research, with a focus on terminologies and procedures for quantifying reliability and validity; and 5) suggesting a way to report on an RFID system deployed for animal behavior monitoring. This guideline is aimed mainly at animal scientists, RFID component manufacturers, and system integrators who wish to deploy RFID system as an automated tool for monitoring poultry behavior for research purposes. For such a particular application, it can complement indications in classic general standards (e.g., ISO/IEC 18000-63) and provide ideas for setting up, testing, and validating an RFID system and a standard for reporting on its adequacy and technical aspects.
KW - RFID installation
KW - automated tracking
KW - poultry behavior
KW - validation
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U2 - 10.1016/j.psj.2023.102799
DO - 10.1016/j.psj.2023.102799
M3 - Article
C2 - 37315427
SN - 0032-5791
VL - 102
JO - Poultry Science
JF - Poultry Science
IS - 8
M1 - 102799
ER -