DomesticPreparedness met with Robert I. Chen, CEO and Co-Founder of RAE Systems. Chen discusses the company's founding and the use of its various detection, monitoring, and clean-up systems for homeland-security missions. He also focuses attention on the “two greatest threats” - nuclear terrorism, and a pandemic flu.
DomPrep has divided the 25 minute interview into two segments.
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Listen to Audio Segment One RAE Systems' Transition to Digital Wireless Sensor Networks
The founding of RAE Systems and RAE's leveraging of its environmental clean-up technology (photo-ionization) for homeland-security applications. How wireless networking and photo-ionization detection (PID) serves such applications as the protection of public venues. Among the certified equipment systems referenced are wireless gas detection, hand-held gas detection, and radiological/nuclear detection units.
Duration: 17 Minutes
Listen to Audio Segment Two Pervasive Sensing
The RAE Systems vision for a wireless, mesh radio network of sensors. The convergence of public safety and security sensor applications. Networking sensor systems to mobile digital video recorder (DVR) systems. Pervasive sensing in the context of the two greatest threats now facing international business: nuclear terrorism and a pandemic flu.
Duration: 8 Minutes
Robert I. Chen co-founded RAE Systems in 1991 and has served as President, Chief Executive Officer, and as a member of the board of directors since our inception. From 1981 to 1990, Mr. Chen served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Applied Optoelectronic Technology Corporation, a manufacturer of computer-aided test systems, a company he founded and subsequently sold to Hewlett-Packard. Mr. Chen currently serves on the board of directors for the Shanghai Ericsson Simtek Electronics Company, Limited, a telecommunications and electronics company. Mr. Chen received a B.S.E.E. from Taiwan National Cheng Kung University, a M.S.E.E. from South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, an Advanced Engineering degree from Syracuse University, and graduated from the Harvard Owner/President program.