AIDC- Automated Identification and Data Capture.
There is a decent definition on Wikipedia for those unfamiliar with the AIDC industry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDC
[AIDC is also commonly referred to as "Automatic Identification," "Auto-ID," and "Automatic Data Capture."]
The software world has so many acronyms!
AIDC is used to automate inventory, asset tracking and management, and warehouse management. The basic concepts of AIDC technology include barcodes, tags, or RFID labels, a hand held scanner or reader, and some sort of software. The software is used to capture data using the hand held scanner or mobile computer from a barcode or tag. It then sends the information captured to a database.