Auto-ID Labs
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Auto-ID Labs, previously known as the Auto-ID Center, is a federation of research universities working on an open standard for creating a "seamless global network" of physical objects. It was founded at M.I.T. as the Auto-ID Center in October 1999, by David Brock, Sanjay Sarma and Sunny Siu with funding from Procter & Gamble, Gillette and the Uniform Code Council. The Center invented the Electronic Product Code system of radio frequency identification RFID. The federation was established in 1999; the network they've developed is at the heart of a proposal sponsored by EPCglobal and supported by GS1, GS1 US, Wal-Mart, Hewlett-Packard, and others to use RFID and the Electronic Product Code in the identification of items in the supply chain for companies.
The universities within the federation are University of Adelaide, University of Cambridge, Fudan University, ICU in South Korea, Keio University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and University of St. Gallen.