AUTO-ID

Founded in 1999, the Auto-ID Center was a unique partnership between almost 100 global companies and seven of the world's leading research universities; the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US, the University of Cambridge in the UK, the University of Adelaide in Australia, Keio University in Japan, the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland, Fudan University in China and KAIST (formerly ICU) in Korea. Together with the GS1 EPCglobal community and industrial partners, they are creating the standards and assembling the building blocks needed to create an "Internet of things." Radio frequency identification (RFID) is a simple concept with enormous implications. Put a tag - a microchip with an antenna - on a can of Coke or a car axle, and suddenly a computer can "see" it. Put tags on every can of Coke and every car axle, and suddenly the world changes. No more inventory counts. No more lost or misdirected shipments. No more guessing how much material is in the supply chain -..

Also known as: Auto-ID Labs

Primary location: Cambridge United Kingdom