Android Question Pet Microship reader and scanner

[Nuno Durães]

Hello everybody.
I thought about making an animal identity microchip reading app. I don't know what kind of connectivity these devices use. Will it be NFC? Will it be Bluetooth? Would it be possible to implement some kind of scanner (like GPS) for this type of device?
Is there any way through wifi (or any network means) to communicate with other connectivity (Bluetooth for example)?
Does anyone have any idea how to do this?
All help is most welcome.
Thank you all in advance

 

[Johan Schoeman]

"......Unfortunately, no. A smart phone can not and will not ever be able to read a pet's microchip. There are no apps for iphone or android that do this and there never will be. There will never be an iphone, android- google, samsung or otherwise that will ever have that capability......"


".....The coil and capacitor are designed (sized) to be sensitive to a particular radio frequency for the application. Then the RF signal must match the tuned frequency of the internal antenna coil, capacitor and chip, otherwise RF signals will not produce a response or an output. In theory the RF source frequency must match the RFID required frequency exactly, although in practice it is not necessary. The unregulated 120 to 150kHz frequency band is designated as the band for animal ID, so all pet RFID tags operate within this frequency range...."

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[Nuno Durães]

Thanks for your explanation

 

[Heinz]

Hello,
i have this scanner. it works over bluetooth and it is an 134.2 khz RFID animal reader.
but you must be carefull, if you buy this product. the scanner exists in two versions : only USB (ca. 32 €) and with
bluetooth and an bluetooth (virtual keyboard) stick for PC (ca 49 €).
the scanner can be connect over bluetooth with the smartphone and the data can be easy read in a simple edit field or editor.
for the smartphone you don't need the USB- dongle.

example :
the number : 276095610564880 -> 15 digits
the first 3 digits : 276 -> Country indentification
the second 3 digits : 095 -> producer number
the last 9 digits : 610564880 -> the real Chip number of the animal
see the attachment for looking for countries and producers.
it is also easy to separate the numbers and find the countries and producers
in the both lists.

 

[John Naylor]

If you fancy a more DIY approach you can pick up a UART TTL 134.2 reader & antenna for cheap, pair it with an ESP-32, a battery, a box, and away you go. A great excuse to get in to B4R.

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