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Sharing and discussing development directions for 'intelligent homes' combining home networks and AI

ITFE to hold '2024 Summer Conference on Information and Communication Facilities'

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2024.06.25. The Fair Economy — As big tech companies, appliance makers and telecom operators worldwide enter the smart home industry by fusing artificial intelligence (AI) with home networks, an academic event is being held to seek the healthy development of the sector.

ITFE (President Choi Gyeong, a professor at Kangwon National University) announced that it will hold the '2024 Information and Communication Facilities Summer Academic Conference' for three days, August 28-30, at the High1 Palace Hotel in Jeongseon County, Gangwon Province.

The event, themed "The Present and Future of the Home Network Market: The Development Direction of Smart Home Networks," will feature a keynote address by Kim Jeong-sam, director of the Central Radio Management Office under the Ministry of Science and ICT, on the development direction of smart home networks.

Experts in the home network field will then deliver presentations. Topics include "Home Network Security Certification" (Jung Cheol-gi, team leader at KAIT), "Tasks for Activating Home Networks" (Lee Yong-ha, manager at POSCO E&C), "Smart Home Market Trends and Policy Directions" (Kim Hak-yong, head of the IoT Strategy Research Institute), "Smart Home Technology and Services" (Lee Gil-won, section chief at Hyundai HT) and "The Relationship Between Smart Homes and Appliances" (Yoon Il-tae, professional at Samsung Electronics).

Paper presentations are also scheduled across all fields of information and communication technology (ICT), including information and communication facilities, equipment, theory, systems, cyber-physical systems (CPS), broadcasting and telecommunications laws and regulations, facility ICT, smart cities, bio ICT, construction ICT, blockchain, ICT convergence and other ICT applications.

"Smart home networks will serve as a personalized platform that contributes to energy conservation and provides humans with a pleasant and safe life, acting as the ultimate destination of modernized housing alongside smart cities," said Choi Gyeong, ITFE chair. "I hope this event becomes an opportunity for experts from industry, academia and research to share useful information, discuss and prepare for the future."

Registrations can be made on the ITFE website (www.itfe.or.kr). For details, contact ITFE at 02-851-4001 or by email at [email protected].

Since its establishment in 2001 as an incorporated association under the Ministry of Information and Communication, ITFE has carried out research on information and communication infrastructure and has made academic contributions to the information and communication industry, which is growing through the cross-complementary interaction of hardware and software.

In addition, as the transition to a digital society accelerates, ITFE continues its efforts to universalize implementation technologies in line with an era in which industries in all fields are being reborn through ICT convergence.

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