Siemens honors young researchers
For the third time in a row, a graduate of Bern University of Applied Sciences wins the national "Siemens Excellence Award". His award-winning bachelor's thesis was about cell phone authentication.
The Siemens Excellence Award is aimed at outstanding final theses in order to promote young engineers. The most outstanding bachelor's thesis at each university of applied sciences in a technical field of study is awarded 1000 Swiss francs. The winners are then invited to defend their thesis in front of a jury of experts. The winners receive prize money of 10,000 Swiss francs.
Distinguish between guards' cell phones and prisoners' cell phones
Winning the national Siemens Excellence Award again for the third time in a row at BFH this year went to Jannic Schären. The Bachelor's graduate in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology with a specialization in Embedded Systems wrote his thesis on cell phone authentication. The starting point for the project was the fact that, for example, cell phones are repeatedly smuggled in illegally in prisons.
Jannic Schären was looking for solutions that could distinguish guards' cell phones from inmates in order to avoid false alarms. The basic idea was that guards' cell phones send out a signal via WLAN on command, which could be tracked via an indoor loc system. By tracking the staff, it is possible to distinguish whether mobile signals from a room are a guard's cell phone or a smuggled-in smartphone.
Schären's thesis was chosen as a "scientific work with a high degree of innovation and social relevance". The project is about to be used as a real solution.
The BFH graduate was employed as a research assistant in Digital Signal Processing at BFH until the end of June 2021. Since then, he has been involved in his start-up Schären Electronics on a full-time basis.
Source: BFH
