GS1 Hong Kong has been proactively promoting the innovation and the adoption of IoT technologies to help local enterprises capitalise on this technology to sharpen their competitive edges. The IoT centre serves as an Industry Support Platform that enables the development of IoT businesses and the delivery of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)/IoT-related services for the surge of continuous development and competitiveness surge in different industries.

The IoT Centre was initially set up by GS1 Hong Kong at the Hong Kong Science Park in 2013 with support from the Innovation and Technology Commission of the HKSAR Government together with the strong pool of industry partners which championed IoT. The IoT Centre has received tremendous positive feedback and support from the industry. To further reach out to industry players more effectively, the IoT Centre will be relocated to GS1 Hong Kong’s premises in November, 2015. The new centre is designed based on the concept of embedding the latest state of art IoT technologies with the objective to inspire innovations and sparkle IoT deployments.