Sabah Forestry going rfid

The Sabah Forestry Department is going high tech to keep track on the of movements of logs from the forest where they are felled right to the point where they are sold.

The department will start tracking logs harvested from 11,000ha of Yayasan Sabah forest concession areas this year, its director Datuk Sam Mannan said.

He said the use of radio frequency identification (RFID) log tracking system would also complement the department’s implementation of reduced impact logging (RIL) from this year.

“The use of RFID technology will ensure accountability and prevent so-called leakages in the production and disposal of our logs,” he said.

He said the use of the RFID technology would also spell more efficiency in tracking logs harvested from Sabah’s forests.

The RFID system would see barcode tags being placed on each log with details such as their size and species being recorded using hand-held devices that would transmit the details to a database.