Dr. T.V.Prabhakar works in the area of Networked Embedded Systems where he focuses on hardware system design, micro energy harvesting systems and power management algorithms. Prabhakar leads the effort in Zero Energy Networks Laboratory (Zen lab) at DESE, IISc, where his students and project staff work on building embedded electronic systems for application areas such as airplane cabin, healthcare, smart homes, and other IoT applications such as indoor positioning systems. A significant work in embedded space is at the MAC layer, layer 3 and other protocols. His laboratory has implemented Publish-Subscribe and REST architecture based protocols and adapted embedded IPv6 flavours such as 6LowPAN. The laboratory also works on IoT Data management frameworks.