Domestic researchers participated in the International Consumer Electronics Fair (IFA), the world's largest consumer electronics exhibition held in Berlin, Germany, and unveiled their research achievements in artificial intelligence (AI), telecommunications, and media.

The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) announced that it is engaging in global technology marketing by exhibiting its recently developed research achievements at the IFA exhibition, which will be held for five days starting from the 2nd.

At this exhibition, the research team will showcase five technologies, including smart glasses, AI facial recognition, terahertz (THz) indoor networks, an integrated water quality management platform, and micro LED simultaneous transfer and bonding technology.

The first technology introduced by the researcher is smart glass technology.

The most significant feature of this technology is that it enables the convenience of automatically connecting to Internet of Things (IoT) devices simply by looking at them, utilizing glasses-type smartphone technology.

This technology is expected to create a new wave in the next-generation smartphone market by enabling phone calls and real-time communication based on an augmented reality (AR) interface while strictly guaranteeing privacy.

The second technology is AI facial recognition technology. />
It is a technology that uses artificial intelligence to search for sections in a specific video where a person appears when a photo or video containing a face is input.

This technology is expected to be effective in establishing a safe and clean media environment, such as through intelligent media information search services and harmful video blocking services.

It is a technology attracting attention because it can be utilized for visitor authentication and identification in aviation, railways, and public institutions, and is easily expandable to various industrial sectors such as healthcare and finance.

The following is THz indoor network technology.

Based on THz wireless signals capable of utilizing broadband frequencies, it provides a wireless transmission speed of 0.1 terabytes (TB) per second in indoor short-range distances of 10 meters or less.

As we enter the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, transmitting larger amounts of data at faster speeds is a recurring topic.

Utilizing this technology enables faster and more precise security screening, bio and medical image processing, and the implementation of the metaverse, and it is expected to establish itself as an essential technology for the next-generation media era.

In addition, the Micro LED simultaneous transfer and bonding technology, selected as this year's representative achievement of ETRI, will also be unveiled overseas for the first time.

It is the world's first technology to perform transfer and bonding processes in a single step.

Compared to existing methods, it is possible to achieve a 1/10 reduction in equipment investment costs, a 10-fold increase in productivity, a 1/100 reduction in defective pixel repair costs and process time, and a 1/100 reduction in transfer bonding material costs.

A 4K resolution display implemented with Mini LED, which cannot be realized with existing overseas source technologies, will also be exhibited.

As Micro LED gains prominence as a next-generation display, it is expected to attract global attention.

Not only large displays such as TVs and signageThe advantage is that it can be applied not only to smartphones, laptops, tablets, smartwatches, and small, medium, and micro displays such as AR and VR.

Integrated water quality management platform technology will also be showcased.

This technology is a platform technology for managing the environment by measuring and analyzing water and air quality in areas requiring ecological environment management, such as lakes and riversides.

Through data collection, control, and analysis using 7 types of water quality sensors and 8 types of air quality sensors, pollution levels by region are reported and water quality conditions are predicted to operate the purification device.

In the future, we plan to provide more lifestyle information by linking with weather and other public data.

ETRI President Kim Myung-joon said, “Through our participation in the exhibition, we will widely promote the ICT convergence research achievements developed at the institute to the world and strive to strengthen our global technology commercialization and marketing capabilities.”