Dr Sabesan Sithamparanathan is a multi-award-winning entrepreneur with over 15 years’ experience in loT space. Sabesan founded PervaslD, based on his PhD research, into ‘Passive RFID real time sensing system for intelligent infrastructure’ at Cambridge University. Sabesan invented and developed the World’s most accurate passive RFID technology. As founder and CEO, Sabesan successfully grew PervaslD, a Cambridge University spin-out company, from its inception to a multimillion-dollar global enterprise, raising over $10M investment, providing transformative solutions to healthcare, industrial, retail and supply chain and logistics sectors with a complete product suite of the world’s most accurate RFID readers.
Sabesan’s customers include the largest aircraft manufacturers, Stanley Black & Decker, blue chip retailers and hospitals including Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS. Stanley also use the tags to track supplies from their tool cabinets used by aircraft manufacturers. Each cabinet contains over 1,000 tools, and it can result in serious safety incidents if any are left inside an aircraft. It is estimated that Foreign Object Debris costs the aviation industry $13 Billion annually. In healthcare, PervaslD solutions are being deployed in hospitals for tracking assets to ensure that mission critical medical devices are available at the right place and time, for robust and efficient care. The need for this level of traceability of medical devices has been particularly evident in the COVID-19 pandemic. The solution is predicted to save £billions for hospitals and will save lives.
Sabesan was awarded a Queen’s Award for Enterprise and Royal Academy of Engineering Silver medal in 2021.