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In the context of the European Water Framework Directive (WFD) it is fully recognized that pharmaceuticals can represent a relevant issue for the achievement of the good chemical and ecological status of European surface water bodies. The recent European D ...

Elsevier2015

A wearable system of micromachined piezoelectric cantilevers coupled to a rotational oscillating mass for on-body energy harvesting

Nico de Rooij, Danick Briand, Pattanaphong Janphuang, Robert Andrew Lockhart

In this paper, we present a compact, wearable piezoelectric on-body harvesting system that uses a small eccentric mass from a common watch movement to mechanically deflect a set of micromachined piezoelectric cantilevers when excited by the low frequency m ...

2014

A Wearable System Of Micromachined Piezoelectric Cantilevers Coupled To A Rotational Oscillating Mass For On-Body Energy Harvesting

Nico de Rooij, Danick Briand, Pattanaphong Janphuang, Robert Andrew Lockhart

IEEE2014

Conception acoustique de systèmes microtechniques

Jean-Daniel Lüthi

Considered as one of the most difficult complications in horology, the mechanical chiming watch, known as the striking watch, has today become one of the symbols of high craftsmanship. When it chimes the hour the sound of a striking watch must not only be ...

EPFL2011

Analyse et mise en oeuvre d'un moteur électromagnétique microfabriqué

Sebastiano Merzaghi

Until now, the preferred solution for MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical Systems) actuation is the electrostatic one. The main reason is that this kind of actuators can be easily manufactured following the microfabrication rules, as their geometry perfectly fi ...

EPFL2010

Watch-dictaphone for Automatic Medical Codification

Pierre-André Farine, Sara Grassi Pauletti, Patrick Stadelmann, Frédéric David Meylan

This paper describes the development of a voice data recording watch and the accompanying software and hardware needed to build an integrated solution for medical data capture and automatic codification. The developed system is used to capture on the stand ...

EURASIP2008

The Weight-Watcher Service and its Lightweight Implementation

Rachid Guerraoui, Maxime Monod, Benoît Garbinato, Jesper Honig Spring, Alexei Kounine

This paper presents the Weight-Watcher service. This service aims at providing resource consumption measurements and estimations for software executing on resource constrained devices. By using the Weight-Watcher, software components can continuously adapt ...

2007

Conception et optimisation multicritère des échappements libres pour montres-bracelets mécaniques

Thierry Conus

The watchmaking crisis of the nineteen-seventies in effect marked an interruption of scientific research into the working of mechanical watches. For the past few years, a revival of interest in these timepieces has given industrialists the financial resour ...

EPFL2007

Analysis and modeling of electrostatic discharge in a tactile glass featured watch

Yves Perriard, Paolo Germano, Lionel Paratte, Daniele Demarco

Electrostatic discharge in quartz watches is becoming more and more important due to the use of plastic materials and tactile sensors. The discharge can lead to different type of dysfunction such as a simple reset, a latch-up, or the destruction of the ele ...

2007

Analysis and modeling of electrostatic discharge in a tactile glass featured watch

Yves Perriard, Paolo Germano, Lionel Paratte, Daniele Demarco

Electrostatic discharge (ESD) in quartz watches is becoming more and more important due to the use of plastic materials and tactile sensors. The discharge can lead to different type of dysfunction such as a simple reset, a latch-up or the destruction of th ...

2004

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