Eddie Ball
MEng (First, York 1996), Chartered Engineer, MIET, MIEE
Reader in Wireless Communications
Department: Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Faculty: Engineering
Research expertise
Novel design and application of radio frequency (RF) technology (including non-communications applications)
High reliability radio links for power constrained devices, such as in future IoT nodes and networks
Indoor/outdoor user position detection systems, using energy-effective and cost-effective concepts
Contact
Telephone: +44 114 222 5839
Email: E.A.Ball@sheffield.ac.uk
Biography
Prior to starting at the University of Sheffield in November 2015, my career has been entirely in industry:
Tunstall Healthcare Ltd (Principal RF Engineer, Radio System Architect) 2011–2015
Cambridge Consultants Ltd (Principal RF Engineer in Wireless Business Unit) 1996–2011
My industrial expertise is in designing innovative, bespoke wireless and RF systems that require a balanced and holistic view of constituent and allied technologies, to achieve best partitioning for performance vs cost trade-off. I'm very experienced in hardware design for both high and low volume manufacture.
My reach extends from the pre-specification concept creation stage, through all theoretical aspects of RF design, to the practical lab bench development and field test; all core to the creation of a mass producible item.
Current research projects
The following relevant research topics are being formed:
High-reliability radio systems (for robust and dependable transmission of infrequent message events, such as applied to alarm systems).
RF systems for identifying user locations in indoor and outdoor scenarios associated with a dwelling (low power and cost effective radio technology, incorporating cloud processing for user position detection).
Additionally, the following themes are also being created:
Next-generation software defined radio architectures and subsystems (high-performance radio systems built using analogue RF hardware, digital hardware and DSP).
Millimetre wavelength and microwave RF transceivers and systems (high performance circuit concepts for future radio system and integrated circuit design).