Ignacio Lacalle is a researcher working at the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), a public university in southeastern Spain. Ignacio is a Telecommunications Engineer (2014) from UPV and he received his Ph.D. (Dr. Ing.) in 2022. The expertise of Ignacio is mainly rooted in the Internet of Things field, having participated in eight 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 topics of the research group.