Japan Race Horse Registry which registers thoroughbred horses has started using ucodes to construct the information infrastructure useful for various services, including pedigree management, breeding and transfer management of thoroughbred horses. The electronic tags for animals called microchip are widely used nowadays for pets such as dogs and cats. Implanting a microchip in race horses, which have been born after 2007, has become one of the prerequisites for registering race horses, so microchips are now implanted in thoroughbred horses. Using microchips conforming to ISO11784/ISO11785 is required. Ubiquitous ID Center has defined the ucode domain for ISO11784 so that the microchip identifier can be used as ucodes.
At the horse auction held in July 2008, the feasibility study experiment was conducted. In the experiment, the UC read the microchip and then referred to the Japan Race Horse Registry database based on the obtained ucode of the microchip. This immediately displayed the basic information of the horse on the UC, and verified the horse against the available list. In addition, ucodeQR was printed on identification certificate issued by Japan Race Horse Registry, and it is scheduled to provide the service of physical characteristic drawing of the horses using this.
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Reading microchips implanted thoroughbred horses.
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Identification Certificate
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