2010 RFID Journal Awards: Best New Product and Special Achievement
Sanjay Sarma is the recipient of RFID Journal's inaugural Special Achievement Award, and Impinj's new Monza 4 tag chip family, the 2010 Best New RFID Product award winner, promises to improve read rates and enhance data security.
By Mark Roberti and Paul Prince
Aug. 2, 2010—RFID Journal presented its fourth annual RFID Journal Awards for outstanding achievement in radio frequency identification technology at RFID Journal LIVE! 2010, our eighth annual conference and exhibition. This year, we introduced a fifth award for Special Achievement; the inaugural winner was Sanjay Sarma, a co-founder of the Auto-ID Center. In addition, Impinj received the 2010 Best New RFID Product award.
Special Achievement
As a boy growing up in India, Sanjay Sarma was fascinated by robots and enjoyed taking apart old appliances and electronic gadgets. It wasn't just child's play. His imagination, curiosity and innate aptitude for all things mechanical led to a bachelor's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in 1989, a master's in mechanical engineering from Carnegie Melon University in 1992 and a doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley in 1995.
It was at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he became an associate professor of mechanical engineering in 1996, that Sarma made his mark. His colleague David Brock hit on the idea of putting low-cost RFID tags on physical objects and linking them to computer networks. Brock was working on software simulation tools and wanted a way to integrate real-world information into the simulations.
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As a boy growing up in India, Sanjay Sarma was fascinated by robots and enjoyed taking apart old appliances and electronic gadgets. It wasn't just child's play. His imagination, curiosity and innate aptitude for all things mechanical led to a bachelor's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in 1989, a master's in mechanical engineering from Carnegie Melon University in 1992 and a doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley in 1995.
It was at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he became an associate professor of mechanical engineering in 1996, that Sarma made his mark. His colleague David Brock hit on the idea of putting low-cost RFID tags on physical objects and linking them to computer networks. Brock was working on software simulation tools and wanted a way to integrate real-world information into the simulations.
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