Original sentence: The Auto-ID Labs is the research-oriented successor to the MIT Auto-ID Center, originally founded by David Brock and Sanjay Sarma with funding from Procter and Gamble, Gillette, the Uniform Code Council,  and a number of other global consumer products manufacturers.The Auto-ID Labs network is a research group in the field of networked radio-frequency identification (RFID) and emerging sensing technologies.The MIT Auto-ID Center was created to develop the Electronic Product Code, a global RFID-based item identification system intended to replace the UPC bar code.The federation was established in 1999; the network they have developed is at the heart of a proposal sponsored by EPCglobal and supported by GS1, GS1 US, Wal-Mart, Hewlett-Packard, and others to use RFID and the Electronic Product Code (EPC) in the identification of items in the supply chain for companies.The labs consist of seven research universities located on four different continents
Edited sentence: The Auto-ID Labs is the research-oriented successor to the MIT Auto-ID Center  , originally founded by David Brock and Sanjay Sarma with funding from Procter and Gamble, Gillette, the Uniform Code Council,  and a number of other global consumer products manufacturers.The Auto-ID Labs network is a renowned research group in the field of networked RFID and emerging sensing technologies.The MIT Auto-ID Center was created develop the Electronic Product Code, a global RFID-based item identification system intended to replace the UPC bar code.The federation was established in 1999; the network they've developed is at the heart of a proposal sponsored by EPCglobal and supported by GS1, GS1 US, Wal-Mart, Hewlett-Packard, and others to use RFID and the Electronic Product Code in the identification of items in the supply chain for companies.The labs consist of seven of the world's most renowned research universities located on four different continents