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IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2004
The electricity market in Switzerland began liberalisation in 2008, with the passing of the Feder... more The electricity market in Switzerland began liberalisation in 2008, with the passing of the Federal Electricity Supply Act, and is still not fully liberalised. Owing to its relative immaturity, there is little in the way of centralised reporting of its stylised facts, a situation the current work attempts to rectify. As a guideline, a standard Hourly Price Forward Curve (HPFC) is developed. Since Switzerland does not yet boast a financial index for energy Futures, the implementation of this model is not straightforward. This issue is addressed by a quantitative market analysis based on regionally specific stylised facts. The resulting model also yields insights on the influence of bottom-up factors driving Swiss spot prices, in particular with regards to the relatively high share of hydro-power in Switzerland. We conclude with a discussion of this “Swiss-made” HPFC and its implications for the evolution of the Swiss market.
RFID markers are proving to be a cheap and reliable enabler for indoor positioning applications. ... more RFID markers are proving to be a cheap and reliable enabler for indoor positioning applications. Motivated by this we have developed a concrete embeddable passive RFID tag for robust and long-lasting way-point identification. Embedding commercially available passive tags in concrete significantly reduces their read range and hence, usefulness as markers. By appropriate redesign of the antenna and packaging we have extended hand-held readability of concrete embedded passive tags beyond one meter. This paper details the background R&D of our prototype tags, including test and measurement results.
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2004
The electricity market in Switzerland began liberalisation in 2008, with the passing of the Feder... more The electricity market in Switzerland began liberalisation in 2008, with the passing of the Federal Electricity Supply Act, and is still not fully liberalised. Owing to its relative immaturity, there is little in the way of centralised reporting of its stylised facts, a situation the current work attempts to rectify. As a guideline, a standard Hourly Price Forward Curve (HPFC) is developed. Since Switzerland does not yet boast a financial index for energy Futures, the implementation of this model is not straightforward. This issue is addressed by a quantitative market analysis based on regionally specific stylised facts. The resulting model also yields insights on the influence of bottom-up factors driving Swiss spot prices, in particular with regards to the relatively high share of hydro-power in Switzerland. We conclude with a discussion of this “Swiss-made” HPFC and its implications for the evolution of the Swiss market.
RFID markers are proving to be a cheap and reliable enabler for indoor positioning applications. ... more RFID markers are proving to be a cheap and reliable enabler for indoor positioning applications. Motivated by this we have developed a concrete embeddable passive RFID tag for robust and long-lasting way-point identification. Embedding commercially available passive tags in concrete significantly reduces their read range and hence, usefulness as markers. By appropriate redesign of the antenna and packaging we have extended hand-held readability of concrete embedded passive tags beyond one meter. This paper details the background R&D of our prototype tags, including test and measurement results.