I am a PhD candidate at ETH Zurich at the Institute for Pervasive Computing lead by Prof. Friedemann Mattern. In addition I work as a researcher at the Bits to Energy Lab, a joint research initiative of the ETH Zurich and the University of St. Gallen. Before starting the PhD program in June 2011 I had worked for almost three years as a development engineer at Robert Bosch GmbH (Corporate Research and Advance Engineering) in the field of the Internet of Things and Services.

In May 2008 I finished my studies of Computer Science (major) and Business Administration (minor) at University of Tübingen in Germany. During my studies I spent one year at the University of Oregon (USA), which was sponsored by Fulbright and the State of Baden-Württemberg. I also worked multiple years as a student research assistant at the group of Prof. Klaus Wehrle (now: Chair of Communication and Distributed Systems at RWTH Aachen University). In his group I accomplished both my student thesis and my diploma thesis in the field of Computer Networking.

At ETH my research focuses on smart energy and the Internet of Things. In particular, this includes:

• Internet of Things: Sensing and aggregating data from smart electricity meters and other Web-connected devices.
• Data analytics: Investigating methods from machine learning and data mining to detect patterns in electricity consumption data.
• Infrastructure: Developing architectures and infrastructures for such data-centric use cases.

Available Projects
Type	Title		Supervisor	Semester
B/M/L	Smart buildings – Playing Energy Detectives Using a Smart Meter and the Internet of Things		Christian Beckel	available

Assigned Projects
Type	Title	Student	Supervisor	Semester
M	Automated Energy Consulting for Private Households by Analyzing their Baseload Electricity Consumption.	Dominique Im Obersteg	Christian Beckel	FS 12
L	Smart Meters in the Field - A Sensor Framework for a Real World Deployment	Sara Kilcher, Andreas Dröscher	Christian Beckel, Wilhelm Kleiminger	FS 12
Completed Projects
Type	Title	Student	Supervisor	Semester
M	PowerPedia 2.0 - A Collaborative Web Application for Electrical Appliances	Joana Welti	Markus Weiss, Christian Beckel	HS 11
L	Integrating Submeters to Individually Monitor Appliances	Manuel Kläy	Markus Weiss, Christian Beckel	HS 11

2012:

Ji Eun Kim, George Boulos, John Yackovich, Tassilo Barth, Christian Beckel, Daniel Mosse
Seamless Integration of Heterogeneous Devices and Access Control in Smart Homes.
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE 2012). Guanajuato, Mexico. June 2012
Abstract, BibTeX, Paper (.pdf)

Christian Beckel, Wilhelm Kleiminger, Thorsten Staake, Silvia Santini
Improving Device-level Electricity Consumption Breakdowns in Private Households Using ON/OFF Events.
Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Networks of Cooperating Objects (CONET 2012) in conjunction with CPS Week. Beijing, China. April 2012
Abstract, BibTeX, Paper (.pdf)

2011:

Elmar Zeeb, Guido Moritz, Christian Beckel, Heinz Serfas, Frank Golatowski, Dirk Timmermann
Requirements for Smart Home Applications and Realization with WS4D-PipesBox.
Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Workshop on Service Oriented Architectures in Converging Networked Environments (SOCNE 2011), Toulouse, France. September 2011
Abstract, BibTeX, Paper (.pdf)

Wilhelm Kleiminger, Christian Beckel, Silvia Santini
Opportunistic Sensing for Efficient Energy Usage in Private Households.
Proceedings of the Smart Energy Strategies Conference 2011, Zurich, Switzerland. September 2011
BibTeX, Paper (.pdf)

2008 (old):

Stefan Götz, Christian Beckel, Tobias Heer, Klaus Wehrle
ADAPT: A Semantics-oriented Protocol Architecture.
In: Karin A. Hummel and James P. G. Sterbenz (Ed.): Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems (IWSOS) Vienna, Austria, 2008. LNCS, Vol. 5343, Springer, pp. 287-292, Berlin Heidelberg New York, December 2008
Abstract, BibTeX, Paper (.pdf)