Peter Harold Cole (20 December 1936 – 22 May 2020) was an Australian electronic engineer, notable for pioneering research in the area of
RFID
Radio-frequency identification (RFID) uses electromagnetic fields to automatically identify and track tags attached to objects. An RFID system consists of a tiny radio transponder, a radio receiver and transmitter. When triggered by an electromag ...
technology, having held over 30 patents.
Education
Peter Cole obtained his BSc (1957), BE (1959) and PhD (1964) degrees at the
University of Sydney, and then was a postdoc for three years at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a
Fulbright scholarship
The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright–Hays Program, is one of several United States Cultural Exchange Programs with the goal of improving intercultural relations, cultural diplomacy, and intercultural competence between the people of ...
. He obtained his PhD, under
Ronald Ernest Aitchison
Ronald Ernest Aitchison (29 December 1921 – 9 March 1996) was an Australian physicist and electronics engineer who contributed to a range of fields and technologies from solid-state devices to satellite imaging. He was born in Hurstville, Ne ...
, at the
University of Sydney in 1964 with a thesis entitled ''Energy Exchange and Loss Properties of Ferrites for Parametric Amplifiers''. For his BE he won the university medal.
Career
His work was in the areas of
radio frequency identification,
electromagnetic engineering,
microcircuit design, and
signal processing. He taught at the
University of Adelaide and the
University of Sydney, and was a Professor of Radio Frequency Identification Systems in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at The University of Adelaide until his death. He was a founder of the company
Integrated Silicon Design Pty. Ltd., a South Australian Company specialising in Radio Frequency Identification Systems. From 1984 to 1999 he was the Chairman of Directors of
Integrated Silicon Design Pty. Ltd. In 2002, he was invited to join the Auto-ID Center established by MIT, and then Director of the Auto-ID Laboratory at Adelaide, one of six Auto-ID research laboratories throughout the world supported by EPCglobal.
Books by Peter H. Cole
* Peter H. Cole and Damith C. Ranasinghe, ''Networked RFID Systems and Lightweight Cryptography: Raising Barriers to Product Counterfeiting'', Springer, 2007, .
External links
*
Cole's Neurotree profileCole's homepage
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1936 births
2020 deaths
University of Sydney alumni
Scientists from Adelaide
Australian electrical engineers
Academic staff of the University of Adelaide
Fulbright alumni