Inventory management system and method using smart tags

1 . An inventory management system to manage inventory related to agriculture and farm animals and to automatically place orders to vendors to replenish the inventory, comprising:

at least one smart tag container to contain the inventory;

at least one smart tag configured to be respectively associated with the at least one smart tag container, wherein the at least one smart tag is an ultra-high frequency (UHF) type radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag;

at least one smart tag label configured to be respectively associated with the at least one smart tag container and configured to include information relating to the at least one smart tag container, wherein the at least one smart tag is configured to be embedded in the at least one smart tag label;

a smart tag reader which is configured to wirelessly read a unique identifier from the at least one smart tag; and

a computing device configured to communicatively and operably couple with the smart tag reader and with a smart phone application configured to execute on a smart phone, the computing device further configured to perform operations that comprise:

receive, from the smart phone application, information for one or more preferred vendors input to the smart phone by a user;

receive, from the smart phone application, a predefined level of animals to smart tag containers input to the smart phone by the user;

receive, from the smart tag reader, at least one unique identifier respectively associated with the at least one smart tag container that retains current inventory;

determine whether a current level of animals to smart tag containers reached the predefined level of animals to smart tag containers, based, at least in part, on the at least one unique identifier received from the smart tag reader, a herd size obtained at least in part from a robotic device configured to monitor trends in a robotic farm environment, and the predefined level of animals to smart tag containers; and

in response to a determination the current level of animals to smart tag containers reached the predefined level of animals to smart tag containers, automatically order one or more smart tag containers from the one or more preferred vendors.

2 . An inventory management system to manage inventory related to agriculture and farm animals and to automatically place orders to vendors to replenish the inventory as in claim 1 , wherein the at least one smart tag container retains a pharmaceutical product related to agriculture and farm animals.

3 . An inventory management system to manage inventory related to agriculture and farm animals and to automatically place orders to vendors to replenish the inventory as in claim 1 , wherein the inventory management system is configured to operate at least in part at a farm.

4 . An inventory management system to manage inventory related to agriculture and farm animals and to automatically place orders to vendors to replenish the inventory as in claim 1 , wherein the smart tag reader is positioned proximal to the at least one smart tag container.

5 . An inventory management system to manage inventory related to agriculture and farm animals and to automatically place orders to vendors to replenish the inventory as in claim 1 , wherein the inventory management system further comprises a database to store information related to the inventory.

6 . An inventory management system to manage inventory related to agriculture and farm animals and to automatically place orders to vendors to replenish the inventory as in claim 5 , wherein the database is further configured to be integral with the computing device.

7 . An inventory management system to manage inventory related to agriculture and farm animals and to automatically place orders to vendors to replenish the inventory as in claim 1 , wherein the computing device is configured to perform further operations to determine whether the current level of animals to smart tag containers reached the predefined level of animals to smart tag containers, wherein the further operations comprise:

calculate a current level of animals to smart tag containers based on the herd size divided by a current quantity of the at least one smart tag container detected based on the at least one unique identifier;

compare the current level of animals to smart tag containers to the predefined level of animals to smart tag containers; and

in response to a determination the current level of animals to smart tag containers is less than or equal to the predefined level of animals to smart tag containers, automatically order one or more smart tag containers from the one or more preferred vendors.

8 . An inventory management system to manage inventory related to agriculture and farm animals and to automatically place orders to vendors to replenish the inventory as in claim 1 , wherein the computing device is further configured to be integrated with a pharmaceutical herd management system.

9 . An inventory management system to manage inventory related to agriculture and farm animals and to automatically place orders to vendors to replenish the inventory as in claim 8 , wherein the computing device includes a smart relay or a programmable logic controller.