Arne Bröring is a Research Scientist at Siemens’ corporate research unit in Munich (Germany). Previously, he worked as a researcher for Esri (Switzerland), the 52°North open source initiative, as well as the University of Münster. He has a Masters degree in Geoinformatics from the University of Münster and received his PhD related to IoT and the Sensor Web from the University of Twente (Netherlands). He has been one of the key designers of the Sensor Web Enablement framework at the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). As the chairperson of the Sensor Observation Service working group, he has co-authored multiple international standards. More recently, he has been involved in standardization at the W3C anTud the Web of Things group. Since 10 years, he is researching on IoT related topics, has contributed to over 70 publications, and has served on various programme committees for conferences and workshops. He has been involved in numerous research projects (FP-7, H2020) and is currently the Technical Coordinator of the BIG IoT project (http://big-iot.eu), which is part of the European Platforms Initiative (IoT-EPI).