Asian countries were better positioned to take the lead in antenna technologies in future owing to the conducive environment available for research and development in communication and wireless technologies, said Kin-Lu Wong, Professor from National Sun Yat-sen University in Taiwan, while inaugurating the Indian Antenna Week 2016 (IAW 2016) here on Monday.
In his address, Mr. Wong also stressed the need for research in antenna technologies to cope with the emerging 5G communication technology and Internet of Things (IoT).
V. Abhai Kumar, Principal of Thiagarajar College of Engineering (TCE) and chairman of IAW 2016, said that every year IAW facilitated students, research scholars and faculty to learn, unlearn and relearn the concepts of antenna-related technologies and enable them to contribute more in the field.
Rise in popularity
Debatosh Guha, Professor, Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics, and founder of IAW, said that the IAW meet, in its seventh edition, was gaining increasing popularity and facilitated large number of researchers and scientists in the field to get connected and exchange ideas.
Following the inauguration, the first key note address was delivered by Sudhakar Rao, Technical Fellow at Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems in the USA, on antenna requirements in emerging satellite communications.
The week-long IAW 2016 is hosted by TCE in association with Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Antennas and Propagation/Microwave Theory and Techniques, Kolkata Chapter, and IEEE Antenna and Propagation Society, Madras Chapter.
