Manuel Ortiz is Associate Professor at the Dept. of Electronics and Computers Engineering, University of Córdoba (Spain) since 1996. Received his M.Sc. in Physics Electronics, University of Granada, Spain, in 1987 and his PhD. Degree in the University of Cordoba in 2013. Since 1987 till 1996 he worked in the R&D department of Fujitsu, in the R&D of TECOSA (a Siemens group company) and for the department of Computer Communications&Networks in Telefonica. His research work is related to the development of low power embedded systems for use in sensor networks, the implementation of redundant arithmetic in FPGAs and HW/SW codesing. He has authored or co-authored several monographs, technical papers and articles covering topics on embedded system and wired and Wireless networks applied to communications for energy management systems and applications.