Dr. Daniel W. Engels is the Director of Research of the Auto-ID Labs of theMassachusetts Institute of Technology, a groundbreaking research center that explores applications and develops technologies for ubiquitous intelligent object networks. He is one of the principal architects of the Networked Physical World EPC System, the foundation of the Internet of Things, developed under the Auto-ID Center and licensed to EPCglobal Inc. Dr. Engels is a member of the Technical Steering Committee under EPCglobal, Inc. and led the development of RFID protocols under the Auto-ID Center. Dr. Engels received his Bachelors of Science degree from the University at Buffalo, his Masters of Science degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Engels’ Masters thesis was in the area of real-time operating systems and computer-aided design, and his Ph.D. thesis was in the areas of scheduling complexity theory and embedded system design. His current research is in the areas of radio frequency identification (RFID) system design, RFID protocol design, applications of RFID, RFID antennae design, sensor networks, and intelligent objects. He has over 25 publications in RFID, RFID applications, security, embedded computing, and computer-aided design.