User's Manual

Reading a cSense™ or eSense™ Flex Tags

What is an cSense™ or eSense™ Flex Tag?

The SCR cSense™ or eSense™ Flex Tag are RF tags worn by cows. They

combine rumination, heat detection and cow identification functionality to give

dairy farmers a revolutionary tool to monitor their cows in real-time, 24 hours a

day.

Each Flex Tag collects information and transmits it to the SCR system a few times

per hour via RF technology, so the information in the system is up-to-date at all

times, no matter where the cow is located.

To combine each tag with the EID tag carried on each animal, an NFC tag is

included inside the Flex Tags and can be read by the device.

(refer to SCR’s website for complementary information (www.scrdairy.com))

Scanning animals and assign Flex Tag

Before to read, select in the menu (see Menu 17 - Menu “SCR by Allflex”), the assignment

operation, then place the device close to the animal identification ear tag to be read, then press

the green button in order to activate the reading mode. The screen backlight switches on and

the red light will be flashing. Once the EID ear tag is read, the orange light will be flashing

and message will be displaying, place the device parallel to the Flex Tag to assign it to the EID

number (see Figure 3to list all use cases).

The following picture shows the result of a successful reading session:

Item

Feature

Description of use

Tag type

ISO standard 11784/5 has approved 2 technologies for animal identification: FDX-

B and HDX. When the reader displays the word “IND” as tag type, it means that

its tag is not coded for animals.

Country code /

Manufacturer code

The country code is according the ISO 3166 and ISO 11784/5 (numeric format).

Manufacturer code is according to ICAR assignment.

First digits of ID code

First digits of the identification code according the ISO 11784/5.

Last digits of ID code

Last digits of the identification code according the ISO 11784/5. The user can

select the number of last bold digits (between 0 and 12 digits).

SCR’s icon

Indicate the SCR feature is enabled and can operate.

SCR’s number

Number of the HR LD tag