Integrating RFID technology to track environmental sensors

Dr Guru Raj, PhD, MBA is a Business Group Manager of RFID & iButton products related business at Maxim Dallas Semiconductor Corporation. The iButton contact devices are used as auto i.d. products in access control, asset tagging, ECash, authentication and environmental datalogging applications.

He initiated RFID business to provide contactless solutions to the above applications. Before joining Maxim he served at Xerox in R&D and business management roles.

Dallas Semiconductor was founded in 1984, went public in 1987, and became a wholly owned subsidiary of Maxim Integrated Products in 2001.

 

Consistent with Maxim's corporate mission, Dallas Semiconductor combines innovative circuit designs with proprietary fab processes to create mixed-signal semiconductor products that serve diverse end markets. In addition, the Company uses design and manufacturing expertise in module assembly and innovative packaging techniques to further differentiate some of its products.

 

With over 1,200 employees and its own wafer fabrication facility at the main campus in Dallas, Texas, the Company has successfully introduced hundreds of base products having thousands of variations.

 

Dallas semiconductor is a subsidiary of Maxim IC whose net revenues were $1.672 billion for the year ended June 25, 2005. The Company has about 8,000 employees. Our headquarters is in Sunnyvale, California, and we have facilities in San Jose, California; Dallas and San Antonio, Texas; Beaverton, Oregon; Cavite, the Philippines; Chonburi Province, Thailand; and other locations worldwide.