All projects from the School of Engineering
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ENSCC Smart Urban Isles
This proposal plans to investigate, implement and validate energy neutral Smart Urban Isles (SUI), defined as “areas around a public building, which make use of the synergies between different (building) functions and of the scale advantages for energy (storage) solutions”. The project is formed by three ...
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SAVE - Smart Alarms & Verified Events
False alarms are a major cost driver for owners of alarm systems. To remedy this problem, we develop a novel alarm verification service by leveraging the power of an alarm data warehouse. By analyzing live streams of alarms, comparing them with historic alarms and enriching them with information from open data, our ...
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Transnational CLOUD for Interconnection of Demonstration Facilities for Smart Grid Lab Research & Development
The aim is to assess the future challenges in the European power grid providing: energy management strategies to allow optimal operation of the distribution grid and market design for integration of renewable energy sources, recommendations to maintain dynamic stability after considerable increase of RES, market ...
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Wireless network for the monitoring of vineyards and orchards
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1st European COST Conference on Mathematics for Industry in Switzerland
We aim to bring European academics, young researchers, students and industrial practitioners together to promote «Mathematics for Industry» in Switzerland. We want to promote «Mathematics for Industry» in Switzerland, similar to what ECMI is doing on an European-wide level. We have three thematic workshops, focusing ...
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Participative Foresight for Smarter Cities
Recently, the smart city concepts have gained increasing importance in current energy and city planning. Various smart city projects which have been realized show that a systemic, integrative approach is crucial. However, in the projects the delineation of boundaries for integrative planning and the realization of ...
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Quantitative trading strategies
Research on quantitative trading strategies for equities, government bonds and currencies
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StereO2 – Low-power optical oxygen sensor
Development of the next-generation optical sensor for the measurement of the oxygen gas concentration with very low power consumption. The measuring principle is based on the quenching of the luminescence by oxygen molecules.
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XoSoft – soft modular biomimetic exoskeleton to assist people with mobility impairments
Background: Between 2000 and 2050, the older population (80 years+) is projected to almost quadruple from approximately 100 million to 395 million people worldwide. Many of the elderly and patient groups such as stroke sufferers or patients with incomplete Spinal Cord Injuries (SCIs) experience varying degrees of ...
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DIWA – Drone Interaction with Wild Animals
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Car sharing system
New techniques will be investigated and developed for car rental/sharing systems. These techniques will give more comfort, convenience and security to the different users while enabling car rental/sharing firms to better control the leasing and tracking of their vehicles.
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Developing a Rotor Model of a Novel Lighter-Than-Air System of a Wind Power Turbine
The technology of Airborne Wind Energy (AWE) aims to develop new systems that operate to harvest strong wind power at several hundred meters above ground level. At that altitude, wind currents are stronger and much more stable than those close to ground level. For the installation of the wind power system at that ...
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E-Destination
E-mobility plays an important role for future mobility systems and their sustainability. The main advantages of this technology are its low contribution to climate change, at least as long as the energy consumed is generated from renewable sources. In the tourism sector especially the journey to and from the ...
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MAMI – Measurement and Architecture for a Middleboxed Internet
The Internet is full of middleboxes that change packets and flows. In fact, there is probably no IP or TCP header that is not affected by at least one middlebox. Obviously, middleboxes impede path transparency, i.e., the idea that an exchange of messages results in more or less the same packets, no matter what path ...
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Smart Door
The door control for the smart door communicates via BLE and can thus be operated with dedicated buttons as well as smartphone applications.
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Swiss Agile Study 2016
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Vision inspection systems for process optimization and quality assurance in the manufacturing of technology components for textile machines
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Audio Processing in OpenCL
Studer's professional audio mixing consoles are well accepted but require expensive components. A new innovation of using the open computing language (OpenCL) for digital audio processing on graphic processors (GPUs) and on FPGAs allow to reuse the existing software investment of Studer's high-end products also for ...
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Battery-less energy source for standard Wireless Embedded Systems
We will investigate and develop technologies to allow the use of the Dynapic Piezo as sole energy source for Wireless Systems based on standard protocols. Features such as very low-power encryption, multi-key and display will be supported. Results will take the form of appropriate concepts, models, circuits, ...
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Developement of new heating elements for hot air blowers
Aim of the project was the development of a new generation of heat blowers for industrial applications with a significantly increased performance and reduced production costs. This was enabled by application of new production technologies for functional ceramics like 3D printing in combination with computer models, ...
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On-Site Configurable Safe and Redundant Technology for Distributed Nodes in Rail Applications
Modern rolling-stock requires a mixture of standard-technology as well as safe and dependable distributed nodes. The latter are expensive due to high validation and certification costs. To reduce costs and increase application flexibility whilst reducing probabilities of failure and enhancing safety, a HW-SW suite ...
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FERMI - Metallic interconnector and protection layer for SOFC systems
The main objective of this project is to explore novel effective corrosion protection and barrier layer concepts on base of spinel-based nanostructured materials and to establish one of these on the designated new metallic interconnect (MIC) material. The material combination of MIC and protection layer has to ...
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Floating Cooking Sensor
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Long historical data for futures
Analysing and finding long historical data for futures prices. Replicating futures data using various underlying time-series.
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Additive manufacturing of structure-optimized lightweight aluminium components in helicopters
Additive manufacturing of structure-optimized lightweight aluminium components in helicopters. Topologically optimized components are particularly suitable for additive manufacturing, as they often have a very complex structure that can only be realized by layered buildup. In this study project a lever of a ...