Prof. Dr. Marcel Meli

Prof. Dr. Marcel Meli
ZHAW
School of Engineering
Forschungsschwerpunkt Low-power Wireless Embedded Systems
Technikumstrasse 20/22
8400 Winterthur
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]