Prof. Dr. Marcel Meli

Work at ZHAW

Focus

• Head of Research Area: Low Power Wireless Embedded Systems
• Low Power Embedded Systems; Asynchronous microcontrollers; Low Power Memories
• Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPAN); Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN); RFID and RFID Sensor Networks
• Energy Harvesting (e.g. TEG, Solar, Piezo, Electrodynamic, RF, Triboelectric)
• Applications of Printed Electronics; Wearables; Application of Spintronics

Teaching

• Computer Engineering
• Internet of Things (Wireless and Low Power)

Experience

• Lecturer; Head of Research Area
  ZHAW, Winterthur, CH
  1999 - today
• Development Engineer; Test and Design for Test for Integrated Circuits (Microcontrollers, Communication)
  Faselec/Philips Semiconductors, Zürich, CH
  1992 - 1999
• Development Engineer; Embedded Systems
  Studer-Revox, Regensdorf, CH
  1989 - 1992

Education and Continuing education

Education

• PhD / Electrical Engineering
  Universtity of Wales, Institue of Science and Technology, Cardiff, UK
  1985 - 1989
• Postgraduate Diploma / Electrical Engineering
  Universtity of Wales, Institue of Science and Technology, Cardiff, UK
  1984 - 1985
• Diplôme d’ingénieur / Option électronique,
  Ecole Polytechnique, Yaounde, Cameroon
  1980 - 1983

Network

Membership of networks

• Embedded World Conference, Nuremberg (Member of Program Committee)
• Wireless Congress, Munich: Systems and Applications (Member of Program Committee)

Awards

Best Paper Award
IEEE IDAACS-SWS 2020
09 / 2020

Projects

• Investigation of sensor for cryogenic applications / Project leader / ongoing
• Energy Harvesting on a Bike / Project leader / ongoing
• SUM - Low Power Monitoring / Project leader / completed
• Low Power Actuator / Project leader / completed
• Low-power Sensor / Project leader / completed
• Low-cost device for efficient cook stoves monitoring / Project leader / completed
• Smart Water Pipes / Project leader / completed
• AutonoMous self powered miniAturized iNtelligent sensor for environmental sensing anD asset tracking in smArt IoT environments / Project leader / completed
• Improved LPWAN / Project leader / completed
• Harvesting energy from cyclist heat to power a wireless embedded system on a bike / Project leader / completed
• EH demonstrator for Matrix Industries / Project leader / completed
• StereO2 – Low-power optical oxygen sensor / Team member / completed
• Car sharing system / Project leader / completed
• Battery-less energy source for standard Wireless Embedded Systems / Project leader / completed
• Wireless Digital Signage using E-Paper / Team member / completed
• Energy self-sufficient measurement system for leak detection in buried water pipes / Team member / completed
• Mobile phone-based object finder using energy scavenging to power misplaced objects / Project leader / completed
• User-friendly health logger with wireless links and increased energy autonomy / Team member / completed
• Feasibility study: Investigation of the use of the Dynapic Piezo as energy harvesting source for embedded wireless systems / Project leader / completed
• Self-powered wireless remote controller for consumer electronic / Project leader / completed
• Feasibility study: Electronic on line door lock cylinder integrating a wireless link / Project leader / completed
• Feasibility Study: Investigation of a new, innovative and universal power management concept for energy harvesters to be integrated in circuits used in wireless building automation (PULPP1). / Project leader / completed

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

• Patent: US6657451, WO0140816 Method and integrated circuit arranged for feeding a test forcing pattern on a single shared pin of the circuit Inventor(s): MELI LOUIS MARCEL [CH] Applicant(s): KONINKL PHILIPS ELECTRONICS NV [NL]
• Patent: US6728900, WO0120455, EP1129408 Microcomputer with test instruction memory Inventor(s): MELI LOUIS MARCEL [CH] Applicant(s): KONINKL PHILIPS ELECTRONICS NV [NL]
• Patent: US7155597 Data processing device with aliased data pointer register Inventor(s): MELI LOUIS M [CH] Applicant(s): NXP BV [NL]

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