Dr. Ignacio Lacalle (male) is a researcher working at the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), a public University in the South-East of Spain. Ignacio completed his PhD in Telecommunications Engineering in 2022. The expertise of Ignacio is mainly rooted in the Internet of Things field, having participated in 6 research projects related to interoperability, added value services, data processing and manageability, among others. Ignacio has performed various roles in those projects (ranging from Developer to Community Manager and Project Manager). In addition, most of those projects were focused on applying IoT-related innovations, in particular, to the field of maritime ports, one of the preferred verticals of the research group.