Location Las Vegas, Nevada, United States Regions Western US Gender Male
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Matt Perkins is the Chief Technology Officer & Senior Vice President of Engineering at Awarepoint Corporation.
Email : mperkins@awarepoint.com
A key innovator, technology leader and visionary for next generation wireless technologies, Matt serves as chief technology officer and senior vice president of engineering for Awarepoint. In this
role, Matt is responsible for system design, simulation, prototype development and merging innovation with entrepreneurial opportunity to increase Awarepoint’s market share in RTLS industries.
Prior, Matt spent 10 years at Motorola as the Technical Director of the Things-to-Things Research Center where he was responsible for aligning business partnerships with technology roadmaps, directing strategic joint research partnerships related to distributed sensor networks and leading the development of Motorola’s Asset Tracking and Smart Energy technologies. His extensive experience includes being an individual contributor in the design and simulation of low-power, low-rate wireless sensor network protocols and the development of social networking algorithms and proof-of-concept vehicles. He led research on radio-location technologies and wireless sensor network protocol development, contributed to the IEEE 802.15.4 and IEEE 802.15.3 standards.
Matt also served as Motorola’s Director Representative for the ZigBee Board of Directors. He remains an active leader in the ZigBee Alliance as Chair of the ZigBee Healthcare Working Group.
Matt is an internationally known speaker on the topic of wireless sensor network technologies and a respected thought leader who is acknowledged by senior leadership teams, standards bodies and technical committees. Matt has authored 13 U.S. issued patents as well as numerous journal and conference publications.
Matt graduated from the University of Florida with both Master of Science and Bachelor of Science Degrees in Electrical Engineering.
