Korea Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute Honam Regional Research Center Opens Artificial Intelligence Convergence Research Lab

Plaque Ceremony on the 26th... Gwangju City and AI-Centered ICT Convergence Technology R&D Collaboration

On the 26th, Lee Yong-seop, Mayor of Gwangju Metropolitan City, held a plaque unveiling ceremony for the Artificial Intelligence Convergence Research Lab at the Honam Research Center of the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) in Buk-gu, along with Kim Myung-jun, Director of ETRI, Moon In, Mayor of Buk-gu, and other guests. Photo by Gwangju Metropolitan City

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] The Honam Research Center of the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) will actively support Gwangju Metropolitan City's flagship project, the ‘Artificial Intelligence-Centered Industrial Convergence Complex Development Project,’ and the realization of Gwangju as an AI-centered city.

On the 26th, Gwangju City announced that the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), a national intelligent comprehensive research institute, held a declaration to announce the research and development of AI-centered ICT convergence technology along with the opening ceremony of the AI Convergence Research Lab at the Honam Research Center located in the advanced district.

The Honam Research Center is promoting regional specialization and strategic industry development through ICT convergence and diversification commercialization linked R&BD in the Honam Metropolitan Economic Zone (Gwangju, Jeonnam, Jeonbuk, and Jeju).

The key R&D areas of the Honam Research Center include ▲energy-based Internet of Things (IoT), big data analysis, and AI control technology ▲optical wireless communication, spectral imaging and analysis, optical sensing, and other core optical convergence technologies ▲edge computing hardware terminals and EdgeX microservice-based software frameworks ▲development of optical communication component manufacturing technology, technology transfer to industries, and support for corporate technical difficulties and commercialization through packaging technology. Recently, it has been selected for central government projects related to AI development projects and is currently underway.

On the same day, Gwangju City Waterworks Headquarters and ETRI Honam Research Center also signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) for mutual cooperation in conducting a public big data analysis project for smart integrated water management, a core infrastructure for building Gwangju as an AI-centered city.

Through this cooperation, both parties agreed to actively collaborate to establish an ecosystem for ‘making Gwangju an AI-centered city’ by providing citizens with a stable supply of clean water through smart integrated water management.

The main cooperation contents include ▲improving crisis alert systems using pattern analysis techniques ▲enhancing leak detection through time-based water usage analysis ▲preventing water quality accidents and improving crisis response capabilities ▲establishing service support and operational standards through big data pattern analysis.

Kim Myung-jun, President of ETRI, said, “ETRI’s headquarters in Daejeon and the Honam Research Center will provide maximum support so that Gwangju can lead AI industrial application technology through the AI development project, which is the biggest pending task after the Gwangju-type job project.”

Mayor Lee Yong-seop said, “The opening of the AI Convergence Research Lab at ETRI, a national intelligent comprehensive research institute, has become an opportunity for Gwangju to leap forward as a genuine ‘AI-centered city.’ We will devote all our capabilities to creating ‘Gwangju, a great city for business and with abundant jobs’ by building the world’s best AI ecosystem.”

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