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KIST Expanding Cooperation with KT in Research on Disaster and Safety Management (2015.09.14)
- Date : 2015-11-06
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KIST, in partnership with KT Corporation (formerly Korea Telecom), is set to build research cooperation and implement joint projects on disaster and safety management. The two parties agreed to implement demonstration and pilot projects to formulate disaster and safety management policy and develop core technologies in the field. This agreement was formalized in an MOU signed on September 14 by Tae Hoon Lim, Vice President of KIST, and Yun Kyung Lim, head of the Future Convergence Business Division of KT.
Under the terms of the MOU, KIST and KT plan to expand research cooperation on joint projects, share research equipment and facilities, provide for human resource exchanges and conduct joint seminars. Specifically, cooperation will be strengthened in the field of disaster and safety management, an area targeted by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning as a promising future core technology.
The two parties will jointly coordinate private, public and research cooperation through the entire cycle of core technology development including commercialization. KIST’s sensing technology for disaster detection will be tied to KT’s IoT platform and equipment. The two parties will also develop disaster forecast simulation, leveraging cloud and Big Data, and implement demonstration and pilot projects involving the convergence of science and ICT.
Tae Hoon Lim, Vice President of KIST, provided this comment on the agreement, “Cooperation with KT, the leader in the IT sector with the strongest infrastructure, will give KIST an opportunity to connect its disaster sensing technology to a new business field including IoT, and it is expected to contribute significantly to public safety as well as further advancement of the two parties.” KT’s Yun Kyung Lim added, “With the convergence and cooperation of KIST’s technology expertise and KT’s ICT technologies, including platform and Big Data, we will make every effort to respond to the needs of public safety and future changes by improving core technology at the fundamental level.”