Auto-ID Lab, South Korea

KAIST (in South Korea) is the seventh university in the world to join the Auto-ID Labs, a leading global network of academic research laboratories in the field of RFID that includes such world renowned universities as MIT (USA), Cambridge University (UK), University of Adelaide (Australia), Keio University (Japan), Fudan University (China) and University of St. Gallen/ETH (Switzerland). Although each lab has a distinctive research area, all share the common vision of creating an "Internet of things." Auto-ID Lab Korea at KAIST will leverage Korea's RFID technologies through collaboration with the world's best RFID laboratories and participation in international standardization processes led by GS1/EPCglobal. Furthermore, personnel exchanges and research partnerships with other Auto-ID Labs will allow KAIST to cultivate more internationalized talent.