Patent ID: 7059275

Claim:
A system for surveillance of animals, the system comprising identification and measuring elements having a short-range transmitter-receiver ( 100 ) attached to the animals for identification checking and animal-specific measuring, at least one local level information system ( 115 ) which is wirelessly connectable to the identification and measuring elements attached to a certain group of the animals in a certain local level and which is adapted to save results of the animal-specific measuring, a terminal unit ( 200 ) of a communications network situated in the certain local level information system, wherein the terminal unit ( 200 ) includes a locating function that is built into a locating module ( 600 ) or a radio network module ( 601 ), at the minimum, one higher level information system ( 130 , 135 ) adapted to be in connection with a certain local level information system through the terminal unit ( 200 ) for receiving animal-specific data based on said results, at least one software application adapted to process the animal-specific data at a higher level information system, said processing resulting in animal information which is sent to at least one other higher level system, and authentication elements ( 211 , 226 ) arranged in the certain local information system for authenticating the identification and measuring elements, wherein each higher level information system, which has received the sent animal information, is able to verify the location of the terminal unit ( 200 ) by means of the locating function, to authenticate the identification and measuring elements, and after that to identify the animals, and to control the animals and/or their environment on the basis of the animal information with which the animals have been identified.