IEEE Technical Talk – IoT of Passive Things and SAW RFID System
“IoT of Passive Things and SAW RFID System” by Professor Varun Jeoti, Universiti Teknologi Petronas.
June 6, 2016 (Monday)
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
PSDC, Room 1202, 1 Jalan Sultan Azlan Shah, 11900 Bayan Lepas, Penang, Malaysia
Admission is free. Refreshments will be served at 6:30 pm. Network and interact with like-minded engineers and researchers before the seminar begins.
Abstract
Internet of Things (IOT) is creating lots of buzz with applications emerging on a daily basis. The pre-requisite for IOT is for ‘things’ to become intelligent and have the ability to communicate. Thus, by extension, the passive things are out of the scope of IOT.
Let us revisit Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) based RFID which is an RFID that is passive and can be read from a distance wirelessly. SAW based sensors are also no different. Systems built using them are increasingly becoming popular on their own because of their passive nature and high tolerance to high temperatures and pressure load. They can be interrogated faithfully while being in the presence of considerable multipath and multiple-access interference. However, in this talk, the premise that they can become part of this IOT revolution will be explored.
Speaker
Professor Varun Jeoti, a committed academician with over 23 years of experience at leading Indian and Malaysian universities teaching students from various social and cultural backgrounds and conducting frontier research for over 30 years in the area of signal processing and wireless communication. He has over 200 publications in journals and conference proceedings and more than 10 patents and copyrights.
His research interest stems from his PhD days work in Surface Acoustic Waves (SAW) devices and encompasses device-physics to signal processing and wireless communication for various applications. Today, his spectrum of work includes wireless systems to SAW RFID/sensors/microfluidics/in-situ measurements. Examples include:
- Over the sea non-line-of-sight communication link
- LAN design in TV band
- PAN design in TV band
- Underwater Li-Fi
- SAW RFID systems with localization
- SAW sensors systems
- Integrated SAW RFID/sensors system as an enabler for passive ‘things’ in ‘Internet of Things’ to talk.
- Some signal processing for medical diagnostics