Received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from UTI, Iasi and the Habilitation degree from the University of Lisbon. He is currently a Professor at Iscte–IUL and a Senior Researcher with the Instituto de Telecomunicacoes. He has authored and coauthored ten patents, ten books, 18 book chapters, more than 400 papers in international journals and proceedings of international conferences with peer-to-peer review. His fields of interests are smart sensors and IoT for biomedical, environmental and precision agriculture applications, intelligent transportation, wireless sensor networks and visual senor networks, and artificial intelligence applied automated measurement systems. He is active on IEEE organization, where he serve as the Chair for IEEE IMS-TC13 and IEEE IMS Portugal chapter.