AIDC · Automation · AI
Building Africa's AIDC, automation and AI capability
Africa's AIDC, Automation and Intelligent Systems Capability Platform
We build the people, architectures and institutional capability behind the systems that identify, track, connect and automate Africa.
Automate
Identify & capture
Build skills
AI that knows where its answer came from
- Grounded in your approved procedure
- Source and effective date shown
- A person approves the action
- Vendor-neutral
- Standards-aligned
- Publicly verifiable
- Built for African operating environments
The AIDC intelligence stack
From physical world to intelligent decision
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StartPhysical
Goods · people · assets
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01Identify
Barcode · RFID · vision
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02Capture
Mobile · scanner · sensor
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03Connect
Network · IoT · APIs
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04Integrate
Enterprise: ERP · WMS · MES · EHR
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05–06Intelligence
Analytics · automation
Six layers from a physical thing to a decision. Each inherits the errors below it.
01
Identify
Barcode · RFID · Biometrics · Vision
What it does
Gives a physical thing an identity every system reads the same way.
In an operation
A pallet arrives with an identifier the customer's system already knows.
What we teach
Identification keys, symbology and print quality, tag selection against materials.
02
Capture
Scanners · Mobile computers · Sensors · Printers
What it does
Reads that identity reliably where the work happens: a dock, a ward, a field site.
In an operation
A dock door reads every case at the speed the operation moves.
What we teach
Device selection and lifecycle, read-zone planning, print and verification.
03
Connect
Wi-Fi · Private 5G · IoT · Edge · APIs
What it does
Moves captured events into the network, even when the network drops.
In an operation
A handheld works through a coverage gap and reconciles when it returns.
What we teach
Network and edge design for intermittent connectivity, interface patterns.
04
Integrate
ERP · WMS · MES · TMS · EHR
What it does
Lands events in the systems that run the business, and routes the exceptions.
In an operation
A receiving discrepancy raises a task with the evidence attached.
What we teach
Event models, integration patterns, error and exception handling.
05
Automate
Workflow · Robotics · Event orchestration
What it does
Lets the system act on what it captured, within limits set in advance.
In an operation
Replenishment triggers on an observed count, at a threshold an operations lead owns.
What we teach
Workflow design, the automation boundary, and who stays accountable.
06
Intelligence
Analytics · AI · Decision support
What it does
Turns the record into decisions, and inherits every weakness below it.
In an operation
A recall answered in minutes because the event history is queryable.
What we teach
Data quality prerequisites, assurance, and governing automated decisions.
Two professional paths and a separate track
AIDC, automation and AI. One standard.
Certified AIDC Professional is the shared foundation of the Technical and Commercial paths. AI Automation is a separate, planned track.
- Professional
- Technical Specialist Enrolment not open
- Technical Expert Planned
- Professional
- Sales Specialist Planned
- Commercial Expert Planned
- Certified AI Automation Practitioner Planned
- Certified AI Automation Lead Planned
Four places capability is built
Choose your path
Four ways in, by whose capability you are building.
Professionals
For professionals and students
Learn and certify
A verifiable credential at the level your work actually sits.
Explore certifications →
Universities & TVETs
For universities and TVETs
Build institutional capability
An accreditation-ready four-year programme you can adopt and teach.
Explore institutional programs →
Enterprise
For enterprise
Transform operations
Capability your operation can run on, and the architecture beneath it.
Explore enterprise solutions →
Government
For government and development programmes
Build national capability
Capability specified as a bill of quantities and evidenced by credentials anyone can verify.
Discuss a national programme →
Also: student and academic partner rates · team and private cohorts · AIDC strategy and advisory
- IdentifyPeople · products · assets
- CaptureData · events · movement
- ConnectSystems · workflows · people
- TransformIndustries · communities · lives
- Two paths and a separate track Technical and Commercial, and AI Automation planned
- 7 credentials 5 AIDC across two paths, and 2 AI Automation
- 8 industries Where the capability is applied
- Independently verifiable Every credential, on a public register
What Auto DigitID builds
Education
University and TVET curriculum, built to be taught rather than adapted.
Go →Certification
Professional, Technical Specialist and Technical Expert - a ladder where each rung assumes the one below.
Go →Enterprise
Capability programmes for organisations that have to run these systems every day.
Go →Consultancy
Business and operations automation across six pillars, from demand capture through to support.
Go →Advisory
AIDC architecture and strategy, before anyone specifies hardware.
Go →Research
Africa-focused knowledge about how these systems behave in these operating conditions.
Go →Community
The practitioners who hold the credential, and the standard they hold in common.
Go →Industry coverage
Same capability everywhere; only the cost of getting it wrong changes.
Logistics and warehousing
Receiving, picking, dispatch and proof of delivery.
Healthcare and life sciences
Patient, specimen and medication identification.
Manufacturing
Work-in-progress visibility and component genealogy.
Retail and distribution
Inventory accuracy and replenishment.
Public sector
Identity, customs, ports and asset registers.
Banking and financial services
Document, device and asset custody.
Energy and utilities
Distributed asset registers and field inspection.
Courier, express and postal
Item-level tracking and delivery evidence.
One foundation. Two professional paths.
One AIDC foundation, then a path by role. Each level assumes the one below. AI Automation is a separate track.
Then choose the work you want to do
- Sales Specialist Discover · Qualify · Position · Value · Propose · Advance
- Commercial Expert Strategise · Engineer Value · Orchestrate · Negotiate · Close · Grow
Then one advanced concentration
What you will be able to do
Deployment & Support
Barcode · RFID · Printing & verification · Devices & connectivity · Security baselines · Troubleshooting
Students, entry technicians, field support, presales and postsales support and junior analysts
Open entry
Integration & Traceability
Secure APIs · Event-driven integration · EPCIS & Digital Link · RTLS · Digital Product Passport · Observability
Solution engineers, systems analysts, automation engineers and mid-career upskillers
Requires Professional
Enterprise Delivery & Assurance
Secure rollouts · Resilience & capacity · Multi-site cutover · Platform operations · Edge AI assurance · Governance evidence
Senior integrators, implementation leads, platform owners, technical delivery managers and delivery consultants
Requires Technical Specialist
Prices, instalments and every published rate are on the Certifications page.
Start Professional Every published rate
There is also a separate academic route
Certification teaches deployment, integration and assurance; a degree teaches design and architecture. Neither requires the other.
University
A four-year, architecture-first BTech degree in AIDC and Intelligent Automation, taken at a partner institution.
TVET
Equipment-rich workshop practice, maintenance and workplace-assessed competence, with articulation toward further study.
Not sure which?
The course and career guide compares every pathway and where to start.
Which rate applies to you
Studying right now
Verified students pay the student rate on every credential. Student rates from $195.
At a partner institution
Learners at an Academic Partner pay the partner rate, from $179. Not a public discount code.
Research and insights
Positions we hold on how a credential in this field should be built.
Why Auto DigitID
Six commitments, the same for every candidate.
- Vendor-neutralNo manufacturer or software vendor is named anywhere in the curriculum.
- Standards-alignedCovers and teaches GS1, EPCIS and ISO practice - not accredited by them, and we say so.
- Africa-firstIntermittent power, constrained bandwidth and mixed estates are assumptions, not an appendix.
- Industry-defendedAssessed against evidence of practice rather than attendance.
- Publicly verifiableEvery certificate can be checked by anyone, without an account.
- Living curriculumContent moves with practice; an issued award stays tied to its framework release.
Aligned with the systems and standards enterprises already use
Taught, not endorsed: we are not accredited by the bodies that publish these.
- GS1
- EPCIS
- ISO
- RFID
- IoT
- ERP
- WMS
- MES
- EHR
- DPP
How the credential is governed
The rules that decide what an Auto DigitID credential is worth, and that do not move.
- One standardOne assessment per level. The learning route never changes it.
- Public verificationEvery certificate has an ID and a QR code. Anyone can check it, without an account.
- Framework-versionedA certificate stays tied to the framework release printed on it.
All 7 governance rules Questions about fees, instalments and renewal
Build the capability behind Africa's intelligent systems.
For professionals
Explore certificationsFor institutions
Discuss curriculum adoptionFor enterprise and government
Talk to Auto DigitIDEvery credential we issue is publicly verifiable, by anyone, without an account.