Principles of Inductive Near Field Communications for Internet of Things

Johnson graduated from La Trobe University with a PhD (1994) in microwave radar remote sensing (MSc Research University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland (1982) in microprocessor techniques in digital control systems) and BSc (Electronic/Electrical Engineering, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ife, Nigeria (1977). He is currently Associate Professor (remote sensing systems engineering) in the department of electronic engineering and Extraordinary Professor in telecommunications at Tshwane University of Technology/ French South African Technical Institute in Pretoria, South Africa. He is also Extraordinary Professor in computer science at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa, Cape Town. He was a Senior Research Scientist at CSIRO Telecommunications and Industrial Physics (1994 - 2000; renamed CSIRO ICT) in biometrics and remote sensing and Principal Engineer Research at Vodafone Australia research from 2000 to 2003. He is the author of six technical books in electronic communications including Principles of Inductive Near Field Communications for Internet of Things (River Publishers, Aalborg Postkontor, Denmark, 2011); IP Communications and Services for NGN (Auerbach Publications, Taylor & Francis Group, USA, 2010) and Planning and Optimisation of 3G and 4G Wireless Networks (River Publishers, Aalborg Postkontor, Denmark, 2009). He is Consulting Editor for River Publishers Denmark on new areas in Telecommunications and Science. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of the African Journal of ICT (AJICT) and founder of the International Conference on Broadband Communications and Biomedical Applications (IB2COM). His current research interests include remote and short range sensing, inductive communications and wireless power transfer, Internet of Things , wireless and mobile communications and biometric systems. Dr. Agbinya is a member of IEEE and African Institute of Mathematics (AIMS). He has published extensivelyoin broadband wireless communications, biometrics, vehicular networks, video and speech compression and coding, contributing to the development of voice over IP, intelligent multimedia sub-system and design and optimisation of 3G networks. He was recipient of research and best paper awards and has held several advisory roles including the Nigerian National ICT Policy initiative.