Jan/Feb 2006

If you live in Cardiff and you're tempted to overfill your dustbin or put material in a recycling bin that shouldn't be there, watch out! You could be reported by your bin men by means of a new mobile solution that is being rolled out to the workforce there.

Cardiff City Council has chosen Application Developments, a support services company, to provide the solution, which includes a barcode reading application from its subsidiary Inventris. It is the first contract placed with Application Developments since it was listed on the Ofex exchange in December.

The company is issuing barcode readers to waste collection operatives, who will use them for a range of tasks such as reporting overfilled or contaminated recycling bins. The information will be fed into a central database, which will then generate warning letters to the offending citizens.

The full Inventris barcoding system includes a range of solutions such as order picking, sample control, inventory management. The Cardiff implementation will incorporate barcode software, readers and labels.

Inventris is one of three core divisions of the Applications Development group, which offers a range of stock control and storage applications for logistics as well as field service. Other parts of the group produce labelling machinery and label supply.