Guest Lecture on Wireless Systems for Disaster Monitoring

The graduate and the undergraduate program in Electrical Engineering,
University of Pelita Harapan in collaboration with IEEE Indonesian
Section would like to invite you for the following guest lecture
session:

Topic : Wireless Systems for Disaster Monitoring and the Quality of
Service of SMS
Guest Lecturer : Prof. Dr. Gregory Tangonan
Director, Ateneo Innovation Center
Professor, Ateneo de Manila University
Date/Time : Friday, 24 October 2008, 16:00 WIB – 17:00 WIB
Venue : UPH Karawaci Campus, D-Building

This guest lecture session is open and free for public. For further
information, please contact henri.uranus{at}uph.edu or
ihan_martoyo{at}uph.edu.

Note:
Prior to the guest lecture session we will also co-organize the IEEE
ASEAN Workshop and Symposium on Higher Education in Engineering and
Technology (HEET). For further information on the workshop and
symposium, please check http://ee.fti.uph.ac.id/seminar/ieee-asean-a-heet.html.

Abstract
Wireless Systems for Disaster Monitoring and the Quality of Service of SMS

Prof. Dr. Gregory Tangonan
Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines

We will describe the development of a rain rate alarm system that is
based on microwave transmission in tropical rain. We have developed
new acoustic sensors to map the rain rate distribution along the path
of the microwave link. We now have designed a rain alarm system that
using existing microwave infrastructure of mobile telecommunications.
We measured the Quality of Service of SMS signaling in the
Philippines, often called the texting capital of the world. We will
report some very surprising results for the number of messages that
get lost.

Who is the lecturer?

Prof. Greg Tangonan has 32 years of R&D experience with Hughes
Research Laboratories (HRL). He has 49 U.S. patents and has published
over 100 papers in the fields of fiber optics, integrated optics,
wireless communications, smart antenna systems, RF MEMS and laser
communications. He has twice won the prestigious R&D 100 Award. After
retiring from HRL Laboratories, he co-founded Wireless MEMS, Inc., a
start-up company based in Westlake, California that is developing
Silicon based RF MEMS switches for improved antenna performance and
multi-band access. Greg Tangonan joined Ateneo de Manila University as
a Professor in the School of Science and Engineering. He is the
Director of the newly formed Ateneo Innovation Center - which is
formed to provide the interface for industry and investors to interact
with the multi-disciplinary research efforts of the Ateneo Innovation
Center.

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