José Augusto Afonso is an AssociateProfessor in the Department of Industrial Electronics of University of Minho (UMinho) and a researcher of the Center for MicroElectroMechanical Systems (CMEMS-UMinho) and the LABBELS Associate Laboratory. He graduated in Electronic Engineering from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil, in 1993, obtained the MSc degree in Informatics from University of Minho, Portugal, in 1997, and the PhD degree in Industrial Electronics from University of Minho, in 2005. He has experience in the fields of wireless sensor networks, Internet of Things, body area networks, mobile phone sensing, quality of service, and wireless communication and protocols. He coordinated and/or participated in 17 R&D projects supported by the European Commission or national funding agencies, with industrial and/or academic partners. He is the author of more than 130 scientific publications and 2 patents and supervised 2 PhD and 38 MSc students which concluded their theses. He is an Editorial Board Member of the Energies journal (Impact Factor 3.0) and is/was Guest Editor of five Special Issues in the Energies, Sensors (IF=3.4), Future Internet (IF=2.8) and Electronics (IF=2.6) journals.