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Posted: Wed, November 5, 2008
New Funding for the National AIDC Centre for WalesThe National AIDC Centre for Wales has been re-launched in a "bigger and better" format as part of the Academic Expertise for Business (A4B) scheme recently announced.Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC) encompasses a wide range of efficiency enhancing technologies concerned with identifying items in such a way that the identity can be automatically captured by IT systems. These include bar codes, radio frequency identification (RFID), smart cards, biometrics, and vision systems amongst others. The AIDC Centre was set up 18 months ago at the University of Glamorgan. Its aim was to act as the Welsh regional centre of excellence for all AIDC technologies, and by working in collaboration with the European Centre of Excellence based in Halifax, to heighten awareness of these technologies amongst Welsh organisations. Its initial funding came to an end due to the re-organisation of business assistance funding by the Welsh Assembly Government. It is the first centre to be established under the A4B scheme and will be based in the University of Glamorgan working in collaboration with other Welsh universities including Swansea, Aberystwyth, and Glyndwr. |
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