WO2019053313A1 - Anti-theft security device for agricultural use - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention relates to a decoy (1) made of silicone, rubber, resin, plastic or similar, having the shape, appearance and size of the agricultural product to be protected, preferably olive crops, the decoy containing a radio-frequency identification tag (3) with information concerning the identity of the owner, estate and plot of the product with which the decoy is to be mixed, and, optionally, information relating to the characteristics of the product. Thus, if the product is stolen, same can be identified using radio-frequency identification means.

Description

 ANTI-THEFT SECURITY DEVICE FOR AGRICULTURAL USE

D E S C R I P C I O N

OBJECT OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to an anti-theft security device for agricultural use, based on a decoy incorporating a radio-frequency identification element therein so that, through a corresponding detector / reader, the data are identified both of the product as the owner thereof. The device is valid for its application in certain agricultural products, specifically fruits and the like, and very especially in the olive sector, so that the lure will be constituted by an artificial olive materialized in silicone, rubber, resin, plastic or Another appropriate material inside which, and during the decoy molding process, a radio frequency identification tag is incorporated, so that the decoy is mixed with the rest of the olives or products that are carried and deposited in, for example, a cooperative, so that by means of the opportune reader the ownership of said product is verified, thus getting to know if the product is of the owner whose data are associated with the lure identifier or it is a stolen product and that another person tries to sell as if outside yours.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

In the agricultural sector, and specifically in certain products that are transported and deposited in, for example, a cooperative, there is the picaresque that there are people who steal the product and offer it as if it were theirs, with the consequent damage to the owner or owner of such product.

Although certain forces and security forces of the state constantly patrol the fields to try to prevent the theft of agricultural products, this surveillance is not always It is effective, given the vast extensions that must be monitored.

Although it is usual to use labels or bar codes and similar identifiers of the origin of certain products, this type of systems can easily be circumvented or replaced by others, so their effectiveness is also questionable.

These and other problems that will be discussed throughout the present description occur relatively frequently in the agricultural sector.

DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

The anti-theft security device for agricultural use that is recommended resolves in a fully satisfactory manner the problems previously exposed, based on a simple but effective solution. For this, the invention is based on the manufacture of a lure that in the case that the product is for example, olives, then the lure would consist of an olive made with the weight, size, color and texture similar to that of an olive real, in such a way that it is practically undetectable by touch or sight. The lure in question can be hung on the tree or plant or deposited on the floor / blanket / carrycot / linen / shawl, so that when carrying out the weighing of the crop in the cooperative an antenna or electronic reader is included able to automatically and remotely identify said lure, including the same information about the owner, polygon and parcel of origin.

In case of duplicity of decoy it will have to attend to the factors of, yield, size and color of the product, which is like the own DNA of each plot of each farm, with the particularity that in the case of reasonable doubt with the performance factor a second chemical analysis may be made where the use of herbicides or other fertilizers or substances that make confusion of the origin of the merchandise impossible.

Obviously, the lure can be applied to many types of fruit and vegetable varieties, adapting only the appropriate plastic resin mold to the size, shape and color of each variety, including the RFID tag inside the lure during the manufacture of the lure. . The device is applicable to a multitude of products such as olives, grapes, pine nuts, almonds, pistachios, cherries, oranges, plums, cucumbers, tomatoes, etc., favoring both the farmer and the cooperative.

Regarding the decoy from which the device of the invention is achieved, it will be manufactured in a centralized place with the material and the relevant environmental quality and safety controls. The distribution of decoys must be done by a national security company and the sale can be made in the cooperatives from vending machines, to avoid the manipulation of decoys by parties not close to the cooperatives, where Owner partners of the farm may acquire a box with "X" lures, according to the size of their farm.

The decoys will be identified by boxes with a unique identification code, so that an owner when buying a box of decoys in the vending machine of the cooperative that identification code will be automatically associated with the data of the owner's plot, In this way, when purchasing the box, you must enter your cooperative's member number in the vending machine, where you are making the purchase, as well as the number of the polygon, plot and PIN code provided by the security company, which will make it impossible for Another owner buys lures with a different name. Finally say that once acquired the box of decoys, the same vending machine will issue a purchase ticket so that if the buyer loses the box of decoys can go to the same machine where he has purchased and with the ticket number, the number of partner and the PIN, you can cancel the purchase made, thus preventing other owners from improperly using those lures.

In short, it is that the element of identification by radiofrequency incorporated in the decoy allows to obtain in an automated way and without the need for direct vision, the data of the origin of the merchandise, as well as the owner of it. With the device of the invention the obtained advantages are remarkable, avoiding or evidencing the theft of certain agricultural products.

More specifically, the lure of the invention favors the farmer, the cooperative and the State, according to the following:

The farmer favors this because, for example in the olive oil field, the farmer avoids the theft of his olive, because if someone picks up his product and then takes it to the cooperative, with the decoy detector it will be verified that this product is not his property but belongs to another farmer. Also in transport, it would save the transport of the olive soil and could give priority to the flight olives for the benefit that implies, being able to leave the olives in the soil for 1 -2 days in the land of their plot without fear of robberies, since in all the mantillas, carry-ons, trees or in the same ground decoys will have been deposited that will make that the friends of the others do not opt for the theft of their product since it will be detected in the weighing in the cooperative and would bring fines from the competent Administrations. In this way, the farmer has a cost saving in diesel, personnel and time. Of diesel oil: let's give the example that the farmer has 2 plots, and in both olives of flight and soil. The farmer should give on the same day 1 flight trip and another ground trip (total 2 trips). This is because the soil olive can not leave it on its plot for possible night robberies, this is the meaning of the 2 trips. The next day in the second plot, you must make the same 2 trips to avoid thefts, but if you had this security system implemented you could do in 1 day the transport of the olive of the 2 plots and the next day 1 transport of the olive soil, without fear of having your crop stolen, because if it is stolen and taken to the cooperative they will detect the origin of the farm. Personnel: following the same example above, suppose that the workers were milling the olive trees, if the tractor was loaded for example at 5 o'clock in the afternoon, and there was more time to continue to wander, this is not done for fear that the Harvesting is left in the ground and they suffer robberies, therefore the cuadrillas must stop doing their work without taking advantage of that hour of surplus productivity. With the implementation of this anti-theft system, operators can complete their workday without fear of stealing the harvest, which would imply a saving to the owner of the farm in days at the end of the season. Time: following the example shown, the time savings we have seen in the 2 previous sections, since the tractor vehicles save time in trips to the cooperative with the load, going from 4 to 2 trips in a small farm of 2 parcels, and with respect to the day laborers, they could complete their work days. On the other hand, using this system may be calculate better the average of production by olive tree and farm since there will be no deception in the passage. Currently, when an owner brings more olive than planned for that farm, the administration requests that a private agronomist make a detailed report of the meters that the farm has, the number of plants and the size of these approving that The farm in particular is capable of producing that harvest and that has not been stolen, but with our decoy system this type of situation will have no option.

As for the cooperatives, in the case of a weighing of a load, following the previous example, which does not have a decoy, the merchandise will be the property of the cooperative and its partners, since it could not have proven the origin of the owner of the olive , since the deposit of at least one lure in each weighing must be mandatory regardless of the amount to be weighed. In this way all crops will be properly identified with their owner, farm, plot and yield. Regarding the Rural Civil Guard and other state security forces, it would not be necessary for them to be patrolling the fields, since it would be sufficient if the days of collection of the product were in the cooperatives, before the possible controversy of a weighing of a Load with 2 lures belonging to 2 different owners. In order to immediately verify the ownership of the merchandise through the yield, size and color that is unique to each plot, and under administrative sanctions before alleged theft / theft or duplicity of the lure. In case of duplicity of decoy, and subsequent verification that the merchandise, according to its performance, belongs to another owner, the sanction / fine must be twice as much as if the weighing detected a decoy that did not correspond to the owner that appears in the documentation which is delivered to the cooperative when weighing the merchandise. Regarding the detection of the decoys by the security forces, it would be carried out with a radiofrequency detection gun. This process could be carried out anywhere on the roads or in the countryside thanks to the GPRS connection integrated in the RF Portable Detector. In this way, the owner and the origin of the merchandise can be verified immediately, and this can be contrasted with the documentation (guides) that the transporter must carry.

Specifically, in the event that the device is applicable as an anti-theft means for olives, the decoy detection would be carried out as follows: Once the merchandise arrives (olive, for example) to the cooperative, it will be necessary to perform a manual detection with a reader or radiofrequency gun, in order to avoid that once the merchandise has been deposited in the hopper the owner has forgotten to introduce the decoy or alleges a fault in the detection system. This is why the need to manually perform the detection and then the automatic detection in the weighing hopper.

Once the merchandise is unloaded in the hopper, following the example of the olive, the load is transported by a belt to be blown and cleaned, then deposited in a second hopper where the final weighing is carried out and then dropped through a hole of small dimensions, being here where it will be necessary to install a decoy detection system so that no manipulation option can be given.

Just at that moment a sample of the product or merchandise is collected to obtain its subsequent yield, thus generating the DNA of the product or merchandise without the option to make mistakes between shipments of different owners, so that in case of doubt, and as already stated. has said before, a second chemical analysis may be made where the use of herbicides and other fertilizers or substances that make confusion of the origin of the merchandise or product impossible. DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

To complement the description that will be made below and in order to help a better understanding of the characteristics of the invention, according to a preferred embodiment of the same, a set of drawings is included as an integral part of said description. where, with illustrative and non-limiting character, the following has been represented:

Figure 1 .- Shows a perspective view of a bunch of olives in which an anti-theft security device for agricultural use is integrated according to the object of the present invention.

Figure 2 shows a view of the RFID tag that would be embedded in the bait of the previous figure. Figure 3 shows, finally, a schematic representation of the way of detection of decoys by the security bodies.

PREFERRED EMBODIMENT OF THE INVENTION

In view of the figures shown, it can be seen how the anti-theft security device for agricultural use of the invention is constituted from a lure (1), with shape, dimensions and appearance of the product to be collected, being obtained in rubber or resin of plastic and duly painted to resemble as much as possible a natural olive (2), being practically undetectable to the eye and / or to the touch.

Well, in the heart of said lure (1), during its manufacturing process a radio frequency identification (RFID) label (3) is integrated into it, which can be inside a capsule (7) at the time of introduce it into the resin mold or material in which the lure is obtained.

In this way, when a farmer or owner of a load transports said load to the corresponding cooperative, in the first place a decoy detection will be carried out by the cooperative's personnel or the security bodies (4), with a gun. or RFID reader (5), on the olives (2) loaded in the trailer (6), as shown in figure 3 ^a , all in such a way that the detection by the RFID reader will determine if the data provided by the decoy correspond to the owner of the cargo and that it is not stolen according to the guides.

Claims

REVIVAL DICTION EN 1 .- theft security device for agricultural use, characterized in that is materialized in a lure (1) silicone, rubber, resin, plastic or the like, shape, appearance and size of the agricultural product to be protected; decoy in which it includes a radio-frequency identification tag (3) with information about the identity of the owner, polygon and plot of the product with which the decoy is intended to be mixed, as well as optional information regarding the characteristics of said product. 2 .- theft security device for agricultural use, according to claim 1, wherein the radio frequency identification tag is disposed within a capsule (7), embedded in the bait.