Career
Preishuber-Pflügl was a design engineer, project manager and product manager at Philips Semiconductors, where he started to get involved in Radio Frequency IDentification with his diploma thesis. His work led him through the development of LF (<135 kHz), High Frequency (1356 MHz) and Ultra high frequency (860-960 MHz) Radio Frequency IDentification products and systems Changing to CISC Semiconductor GmbH in 2003, Preishuber-Pflügl set up the company"s Radio Frequency IDentification and NFC activities and expanded the international standardization work on Radio Frequency IDentification. In 2003 he became convener of International Organization for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission JTC1 SC31 WG3/SG1 "Radio Frequency IDentification performance and conformance test methods", which continued its work as WG4/SG6 since 2008.
The group developed the performance and conformance standards International Organization for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission 18046 and International Organization for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission 18047 applicable for International Organization for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission 18000 Radio Frequency IDentification testing.
In 2014 he became convener of International Organization for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission JTC1 SC31 WG7 "Radio Frequency IDentification Security", which develops International Organization for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission 29167. Currently, he is driver in standardization in International Organization for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission, CENELEC, European Telecommunications Standards Institute and GS1 EPCglobal.
In 2012 he became co-author of the Radio Frequency IDentification Handbook of Klaus Finkenzeller. In the intensive discussion of Internet of Things (IoT) and Radio Frequency IDentification he first used the term "Radio Frequency IDentification/NFC providing the last meter of the IoT", which has been derived from the common term "last kilometer" in infrastructure networks.
Using the Anglo-American terms "last mile" was first used in public in the speech on "Radio Frequency IDentification and NFC: Providing the Last Yards for IoT" on 8 October 2015.
As input for the International Organization for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission JTC1 Plenary the respective committee SC31 used then "IoT"s First Meter".
