Pico offers a very high quality industrial data acquisition to build a wide range of instrument, 1 channel to over 500 channel on just 1 PC, the low cost of the equipments make them very ideal to be use for educational purposes, this way students can work on equipments which they will come across when the finish their degree and start work.
Also for universities with small research budget, Pico equipments are very highly accurate, reliable, fast and easy to use, Software Packages are free, student can copy software without a licence, no individual or site licence required.
Pico equipment has been use in the middle east since year 2000 with a very successful research outcome.