Center of Identification Systems
Center of Identification Systems, http://www.ids.by was established by the
Government of Republic of Belarus in 2006 as a specialized organization in the
field of automatic identification technologies and e-business. It is a dynamically
growing company which actively collaborates with leading academic and industrial
organizations in Belarus.
Competences of the Centre:
• Development and implementation of automated information-analytical
systems in the field of article numbering, bar and radio frequency identification, as
well as in e-business;
• Provision of article numbering and automatic identification services;
• Maintaining of a national depository for identification codes of goods (in the
481 segment) marked by bar and RFID codes in accordance with international
rules and standards;
• R&D in the area of numbering and automatic identification systems, and
coordination of these activities carried out by scientific organizations and
companies, both private and public, in the country;
• Standardization in the field of automatic identification and e-business.
Infrastructure and cooperation with other organizations:
The Center is a co-founder and principal partner of the Association of Automatic
Identification GS1 Belarus.
Together with the Belarusian State University it has created a Laboratory for
implementing the key projects in RFID technologies and carrying out R&D.
Jointly with the State Committee on Standardization of Belarus, the National
Technical Committee for the Identification has been established in the Centre,
operating since 2008, whose main task is the development of guidelines and state
standards in the field of automatic identification of services and goods in alignment
with international standards in force.
The Center has a unique Testing Laboratory for verification of bar codes certified
by State Standard (accreditation certificate №BY/112 02.1.0509 to 09.07.2007).
This laboratory tests the quality of bar codes. It also covers up and records
violations producers may do while labeling and delivering goods with bar codes at
the points of sale as well as controls the legality of identification numbers (bar
codes) usage on the territory of the republic.
For the R&D purposes the Centre has been granted with the State Commission’s
on Radio Frequencies permit to use RFID devices operating in the range 865.6 867.6 MHz ID ISC.LRU2000-EU.
In 2010, the RFID-Lab of the Center of Identification Systems was equipped with
a set of RFID-equipment of the leading European manufacturers for R&D in the
area of RFID-systems.
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The Center provides services in the field of automatic identification for more than
3000 legal entities in Belarus.
The major national customers of the Centre’s projects:
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus and its representative
offices in other countries,
• Ministry of Trade of Belarus,
• Ministry of Agriculture and Food of Belarus,
• Department of State Signs, Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Belarus,
• National Academy of Sciences of Belarus,
• Association for Automatic Identification GS1 Belarus, etc.
Areas of R&D activities:
• Developing of automated information systems for automatic identification of
article numbering and automatic identification systems, including systems
for Internet of things;
• Establishment of e-commerce and electronic workflow.
The Centre is currently implementing a national project which is aimed at
developing of a data bank of electronic passports of goods. Content and testing
mechanism used by the project, as well as its approaches were discussed and
approved by the 15th session of Committee on Trade Facilitation and Electronic
Business Economic Commission for Europe (UN / CEFACT, Geneva, November,
2009), and also at the Regional Preparatory Meeting of CIS for the World
Telecommunication Development Conference (Minsk, November, 2009),
organized by the International Telecommunication Union.
Research potential and international cooperation:
Actually, the Center has founded in Belarus a new R&D area - automatic
identification technologies. Currently, its staff is 67 empl., incl. 47 researchers of
which 21 are under the age of 35.
There are published scientific articles and reports at international conferences on
topics related to the Centre’s works.
Within the framework of European initiative ISTOK-SOYUZ in 2009, the Centre
has won the competition and received logistical support from the Organizing
Committee (until 2012) in searching for partners and preparing participation in
FP7 projects.
The Centre is actively working on self-promotion for establishing international
cooperation with the leading European companies in the area of RFID.
Possible areas of cooperation within the ERA-WIDE project:
• Preparation of analytical reports and scientific studies, market assessment of
automatic identification technologies in Belarus, Russia, Kazakhstan,
Ukraine and Baltic region with participation of the leading international
experts;
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• Working out a strategy for development of the Centre of Identification
Systems based on the best European practices in the field of automatic
identification technologies;
• Development of registries and databases synchronized with the European
registers (products depository registered in GS1, synchronization with
international classifiers and so on) as well as the development of national
guidelines for the simplification of trade procedures in accordance with
international requirements and standards;
• Joining European network of laboratories and EPC-RFID-labs for
collaborative researches;
• Share-knowledge and training facilities at the leading European research
organizations;
• Supporting research in the Internet of things area, and other areas relevant to
the Centre’s competence with the participation of the leading European
research institutions;
• Training of young researchers in Belarusian universities with the involvement
of European experts, as well as organization of training of young
researchers in European universities and leading scientific organizations;
• Promotion of RFID-technology in the territory of Belarus, Russia,
Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Baltic countries, as well as the promotion of
competences of the Center itself;
• Organization of conferences in Belarus as well as participation in the
European conferences, seminars and international exhibitions together with
the European institutions interested;
• Preparation of joint proposals for FP7 and other EU/EU MS-funded
international programs in the areas mentioned below.
Areas of interest within ICT Work Programme 2011-2012:
Challenge 1– Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Objective 1.3 focuses on architectures and systems for the interconnection of sensors, actuators
and embedded computational and intelligent elements connected to the Internet and other
relevant networks. These architectures provide a consistent integration and interoperability
framework for the massively heterogeneous environments that have appeared so far through
developments framed by vertical sectors. They will offer the identification, self-configuration,
self-healing and autonomic properties needed for appropriate reliability, privacy, security, realtime response and governance of these 'smart environments, whilst making possible business
scenarios based on dynamic access to "smart" resources.
Objective 1.2 - software, services and cloud computing technologies will focus on technologies
specific to the networked distributed dimension of software and the distributed access to services
and data. This includes support for mobility, massive scalability, verification and validation of
software-based services, self-management etc. Cloud computing technologies such as virtualized
infrastructures and energy efficiency issues, platform management aspects like data consistency
and protection, and inter-cloud-operability are included as well. As such, this objective is
complemented by work on service-oriented architectures, service discovery and composition that
is now addressed under the Future Internet PPP.
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Challenge 7 – ICT for enterprises and production/PPP Factories of Future
Objective 7.1 Smart Factories: Agile manufacturing and customisation covers novel process
automation, systems and tools for an integrated control and optimisation of factory assets. It also
addresses intelligent cooperative robotic systems and their programming to support flexible,
small batch and craft manufacturing as well as novel lasers and laser-based material processing
systems. It finally covers new metrology tools and methods for managing large-scale
manufacturing information in real-time.
Objective 7.2 Manufacturing solutions for new ICT products will contribute to establish the
bases for, and demonstrate the feasibility of, low-cost, high volume and high throughput
manufacturing processes for Organic Large Area Electronics (OLAEs) and Organic Photonics.
Research will focus on the main manufacturing roadblocks such as patterning technologies,
improvement of material parameters, process stability and control, and architectures to cut
production costs, and will include quality control, testing and validation elements.
Standardisation issues will also be addressed.
Objective 7.3 Virtual factories and enterprises will support collaborative and adaptive virtual
enterprise environments based on increased business intelligence and enriched knowledge and
asset management tools. They should allow for distributed and global supply chains, production,
logistics, product lifecycle management as well as sales and after sales operations. These tools
should support innovation across the value chain and enable new business models leveraging
integrated product/service systems.
Objective 7.4 Digital factories: Manufacturing design & product lifecycle management will
address the development of interoperable solutions for complex systems manufacturing by
bringing together under a common objective disparate European competence in digital
manufacturing (modelling, simulation, visualisation, etc). Research work will address the early
stages of manufacturing through computer-assisted prototyping and testing to reduce the need for
physical prototyping and testing. The focus will be on advanced engineering platforms that
enable information sharing of product-relevant knowledge across different players of the value
chain, on simulation tools and programming tools for massive parallelisation of industrial codes
and on interoperable models and virtual prototyping and testing environments enabling the use of
various aspects of design and engineering.
Contacts:
Victor Dravitsa,
Director
Phone: +375 17 2949080
e-mail: info@ids.by
Alexander Reshetnyak,
Head of International Projects Department
e-mail: rav@ids.by
15/2 Akademicheskaya str.,
220072 Minsk
http://www.ids.by