Ignacio Bravo received his BSc (1996), MSc (2000) and PhD (2007) from the University of Alcala (Madrid, Spain) in the area of Electronics. He is currently a Full Professor (2018) in the Electronics Department of University of Alcala.

His research areas are focused on Embedded Systems applied to image and/or data processing oriented to the development of Smart Spaces. He is a co-author of more than 40 articles published in JCR and has more than 100 contributions for conferences. He has been the leader of 27 R&D projects funded by National/European Administrations and private companies.

Also, he has participated in more than 50 R&D projects as researcher. He has 5 National Patents in the field of SMART Sensors. Concerning, He has vast experience in International Mobility promoting bilateral collaborations, in particular in Brazil, US, China, UK, Ireland, France or Finland. He is currently supervisor of 2 PhD candidates and has supervised 5 PhD Thesis since 2012.

Esther Palomar received the 2017 Grant for the attraction of talent in research groups from Madrid Regional Council (Spain) with a 4-year project (April 2018-March 2022) hosted by the Dpt. of Electronics at the University of Alcala in Madrid.

Prior to this, Esther is Reader in Cyber Security in the Faculty of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment at Birmingham City University since September 2013. She has a PhD in Computer Science (2008) from University Carlos III of Madrid where she worked as Assistant Lecturer for nine years. Esther was invited as Visiting Professor at INRIA in Paris (2009) and Simula Research Laboratory in Oslo (2012) for 6-month period each.

Her main research interests include design, analysis and implementation of cooperation-based cryptographic protocols for fully decentralised networks and applications in emerging areas ranging from Internet of Things, smart cities, assisted living, and smart transportation.

She regularly serves as reviewer for a number of international journals and technical program committee member of conferences on computer science. She has published a number of peer reviewed conference and journal articles and edit a couple of special issues and books.

Carlos Cruz is an experienced electronic engineer with extensive background in detector electronics, diagnostics and technical programming.

He has worked on different research centres (ESRF and ALBA Synchrotrons, ESSBilbao, CSIC or CIEMAT) and has participated in an extensive number of research projects, whose main results have been published in different high quality journals.

His main experience has been related to the design and evaluation of detectors, software simulation and hardware design.

He is currently working on the development of a cooperative demand response system that includes algorithm optimisation simulations and its validation on a pilot implementation.

Engineering in Electronics and Telecommunications from the University of Alcalá in 1996 and 2000, respectively, and PhD from the same university in 2008. She started working in the Electronics Department of the University of Alcalá as a researcher in 1996 and as a teaching staff in 1997. She is currently Associate Professor at the same university since 2009. Her research activity began in 1999, when he joined the Electronic Engineering Group applied to Intelligent Spaces (GEINTRA), where she is focused from the beginning in the area of intelligent systems and mobile robotics. In this line the works developed are mainly focused on probabilistic estimation for autonomous robots (area in which she develops her PhD), computer vision, objects and people detection and positioning with multiple sensor-networks. She has thus deep experience in electronic control systems, image processing, and later on machine learning and deep learning. In parallel she has been working in the area of autonomous robot navigation, planning and generation of trajectories in real time, and applications to intelligent environments (videosurveillance) and to support disability (ambience assisted living –AAL-). She made a stay of 15 weeks in 2003 at the Swedish KTH, specifically at his Centre of Autonomous Systems, financed by a competitive grant. Within her research experience, it is worth highlighting his participation more than 30 research projects financed in competitive public calls, 15 of them national (in 2 of them as principal investigator), and 2 European, and 15 for private entities (in 2 as principal investigator), and that she has 2 registered patents. It is also important to highlight her participation as evaluator in national calls in the field of applied engineering from 2018: as “Experto” for the Agencia Estatal de Investigación; and as “Colaborador Técnico/Evaluador” for the Dirección de Eval. y Acreditación at Agencia Andaluza del Conocimiento.

Prof. Dr. Alfredo GARDEL, who holds a PhD in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, is currently Full Professor in the Department of Electronics at the University of Alcala, Spain, with more than 25 years trajectory in research and academia. He has co-authored more than 70 high-impact factor papers and presented his work in more than 120 conferences. His contributions extend to 67 research projects and 42 private funded contracts. His primary research interests range from computer vision in reconfigurable hardware/software embedded systems to intelligent systems designed for smart cities.

Prof. Dr. José Luis Lázaro Galilea received degrees in Electronic Engineering and Telecommunication Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (Spain) in 1992 and a PhD in Telecommunication from the University of Alcala (Spain) in 1998. Since 1986 he has been a lecturer in the Electronics Department of the University of Alcala. He is currently Full Professor in the Electronics Department of the University of Alcala. His areas of research are sensorial systems by optical signals, indoor positioning and navigation, monocular metrology, and electronics systems design with advanced microprocessors. He is co-author of more than 100 indexed articles and more than 150 contributions to conferences. He has participated in a total of 43 research projects with competitive public funding and 55 research contracts with public-private funding. He has supervised 15 doctoral theses. He participates in groups and projects of cooperation and teaching innovation. He is a member of accreditation panels of studies and establishment at national and international level. He participates as a reviewer of research projects with several public agencies and also in review of papers for international indexed journals.

Industrial engineer specialized in electronics and automation. My work and academic experience is focused on industrial maintenance in the field of inmotics, with a specific focus on industrial communication protocols. Currently, my work is focused on home (low range) communication protocols. I specialized in programmable logic controllers and industrial maintenance. I started my career working in process automation in computer systems, and then moved to SCADA systems to automate and control research equipment, providing technical support in mass spectrometry. Currently, I am dedicated to working with home automation and home control systems, as well as home management. My goal is to allow users to have total autonomy in their homes and in the management of their power supply.