His work was in the areas of
radio frequency identification,
electromagnetic engineering,
microcircuit design, and
signal processing. He taught at the
University of Adelaide and the
University of Sydney, and was a professor of Radio Frequency Identification Systems in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at The University of Adelaide until his death. He was a founder of the company
Integrated Silicon Design Pty. Ltd., a South Australian Company specialising in Radio Frequency Identification Systems. From 1984 to 1999 he was the Chairman of Directors of
Integrated Silicon Design Pty. Ltd. In 2002, he was invited to join the Auto-ID Center established by MIT, and then Director of the Auto-ID Laboratory at Adelaide, one of six Auto-ID research laboratories throughout the world supported by EPCglobal. ==Books by Peter H. Cole==