Dr Sabesan Sithamparanathan founded PervasID Ltd in 2011, based on his PhD research, begun in 2007, into 'Passive RFID real time sensing system for intelligent infrastructure' at Cambridge University. In healthcare, PervasID solutions are being deployed in NHS hospitals for tracking surgical instruments to enhance decontamination and sterilisation processes and for tracking hospital assets to ensure that mission critical medical devices are available at the right place and time, for robust and efficient care.
Sabesan also holds a BEng (Hons) Electronic Engineering from Sheffield University. He is a Fellow of the ERA Foundation and was awarded the 2011 Royal Academy of Engineering ERA Entrepreneurs Award and the UK ICT Pioneers of Connected World award for his RFID breakthroughs. Subsequently he was elected to a Research Fellowship at Girton College, Cambridge, and in 2014 was awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Enterprise Fellowship. PervasID was awarded a Queen's Award for Enterprise in Innovation 2021.