Josef Preishuber-Pflügl

Who is Josef Preishuber-Pflügl?

Josef Preishuber-Pflügl is an Austrian RFID and IoT expert who is and was project editor of various international RFID standards as ISO/IEC 18000-4, ISO/IEC 18000-6, ISO/IEC 18000-63, ISO/IEC 18000-7, ISO/IEC 29143, ISO/IEC 29167 and ISO/IEC 29167-1.

Preishuber-Pflügl was a design engineer, project manager and product manager at Philips Semiconductors, where he started to get involved in RFID with his diploma thesis. His work led him through the development of LF, HF and UHF RFID products and systems.

Changing to CISC Semiconductor GmbH in 2003, Preishuber-Pflügl set up the company's RFID activities and expanded the international standardization work on RFID. He became convener of ISO/IEC JTC1 SC31 WG3/SG1 "RFID performance and conformance test methods", which continued its work as WG4/SG6 since 2008. The group developed the performance and conformance standards ISO/IEC 18046 and ISO/IEC 18047 applicable for ISO/IEC 18000 RFID testing. Currently, he is driver in standardization in ISO/IEC, CENELEC, ETSI and EPCglobal.

In 2011 he received the IEC 1906 Award by the International Electrotechnical Commission as Expert of ISO/IEC JTC 1, Information Technology.