Public Research and Development Enterprise “Centre for Identification Systems” is an accredited scientific organization, which has long been involved in development and promotion of paperless technologies in commerce and industries.
The Centre has developed a national system for article numbering, automatic identification and electronic commerce as part of the international system of GS1 global standards. The Centre creates, develops and maintains government, industry and corporate information resources for production, logistics and trade.
The Centre is a vendor of ready-to-deploy automated information systems and technologies based on international standards for automatic identification and e-business.
We have created and keep up to date the national register (depository) of goods, which are marked with the international identification codes (bar codes and RF codes) containing the country prefix 481 assigned to the Republic of Belarus.
The Centre maintains a Databank of Electronic Passports of Goods (www.epass.by) – a republican information system for basic information (master-data) about products that are manufactured or sold in Belarus. The Databank is used for automated accounting and logistics in the commodity distribution networks and for management of e-commerce processes (more than 8500 participating companies and more than 9,5 mln. Items).
The Centre has developped and now maintains an RFID-based automated system “Control of legality of goods”.
The Centre has an advanced material and technical basis, as well as scientific basis, and a sufficient number of qualified staff.
The Centre is an independent expert organization, which set up a radio frequency identification laboratory and a verification laboratory for bar codes, which was accredited by the National Standardization Committee. The Centre currently promotes implementation of international standards in the field of automatic identification technologies in Belarus, performs research and develops automated systems, actively participates in the national-level standardization efforts.
The laboratories cooperate with a number of leading Belarusian universities that carry out research and provide training for highly skilled specialists.
In 2012, supported by GS1 Belarus, the Centre’s RFID Laboratory became a RFID/EPC Laboratory and was incorporated in the European GS1 EPC/RFID Lab Network.
Besides that, the National Standardization Committee has established the National Technical Committee for Standardization TC BY 24 “Identification” within the Centre.
Centre for Identification Systems was founded by a Government Resolution in 2006 as a specialist R&D company in the field of automatic identification technologies and e-commerce.
The Centre is an accredited scientific organization, which develops a national system for article numbering, automatic identification and electronic commerce as part of the international system of GS1 Global Standards. It creates, develops and maintains government, industry and corporate information resources for production, logistics and trade.
The Centre is an authorized body that issues certificates for operators of the electronic document management dealing with electronic waybills (EDI providers).
The Centre’s team consists of highly skilled business analysts, designers, programmers and managers whose skills are confirmed by international certificates.
Total number of our staff is 60 employees, including 2 PhD in Engineering sciences, 2 Grand PhD in Engineering Sciences, 6 junior researchers, 5 senior researchers, 2 leading researchers.
Our specialists have developed and implemented more than 40 national, industrial and corporate projects and systems, which are based on modern technologies of automatic identification and e-business; as well as more than 20 specialized technical normative legal acts. They have also been involved in the works carried out within the World Bank projects: Y2K, E-Readiness.
