Mega-Challenge Participants Given More Opportunity

This year, the three finalist teams for the IEEE Educational Mega-Challenge: Smart Cities were given a wider remit in that they were not constrained to just using RAIN RFID technologies. Teams from Florida Institute of Technology, a combined team representing R & N Systems Design (from Christian Brothers University and the University of Memphis), and Washington University in St. Louis rose to the challenge and provided solutions that addressed farming, tool tracking, and RFID-enabled roadways respectively. Washington University in St. Louis won with their “Pathway to Smart Infrastructure: Hybrid RFID” solution after delivering a well-rehearsed presentation and surviving a rigorous cross-examination by a panel of ten industry judges.

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Dr. Venkata Kishore Kothapudi

Dr. Venkata Kishore Kothapudi is an academician, researcher, and RF engineer specializing in RF, microwave, and radar engineering. He has more than 15 years of experience across the defense industry, national laboratories and academia, with a focus on antenna arrays for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and SATCOM applications. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation (KL University), Vijayawada Campus. There, he serves as Faculty Advisor of both the IEEE Council on RFID (CRFID) and the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society (AESS) Student Branch Chapters. Through these chapters, he introduces students to RFID, wireless sensing, antenna and radar technologies

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