How to identify the cow?

Farmers never had any problem in identifying their cattle, many were even give names like pet dogs. The problem is different with bureaucrats, bankers, insurance companies- to them all cows look the same. 

One the tourist attraction for foreigners in Delhi is sight of stray cattle and they do not miss an opportunity to take photo. Obviously governments think it is a bad publicity for the nation and regularly introduced schemes to control population of stray cattle on streets. Delhi government hired about 150 stray cows’ catchers who are supposed to bring 10 cows per day. These people know that of all the cows are removed they will eventually they will lose their job. Due to the corruption, these stray cattle often make their way back on street and are often caught multiple times.

Under PATSER we supported one project for tagging the cows with RFID, even after 15 years it is still a major issue- in 2019 under smart city project Ahmadabad had taken a project to insert RFID tags in 70 bovines per week.

Now comes Facial Recognition technology from startup Moofaram, Mantra.  Egyptian scientists have developed a computer-based technique to identify cattle using nose prints.