Arturo Medela holds a degree in Telecommunications Engineering received in 2007 from the University of Cantabria, Spain. He is responsible for R&D in TST working mainly in the field of wireless communications systems in both national and European projects. His activities cover network protocol development, cellular network architecture and design, energy efficiency improvements, evaluation of NFC payments and the inclusion of IoT devices in Smart City, having acted as project manager in the deployment of a monitoring and management system in wineries and vineyards, and in projects tightly related to the next step in the evolution of the smart cities, involving citizens in that process through novel experimentation platforms.