Bio: Mikael Gidlund received his Lic.Eng degree in Radio Communication Systems from Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden in 2004 and his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from Mid Sweden University, Sundsvall, Sweden, in 2005. Since 2015 he is a full professor of Computer Engineering at Mid Sweden University. Between 2008 and 2015 he was working as senior principal scientist and global research area coordinator for Wireless technologies at ABB Corporate Research. Between 2007 and 2008 he was working as senior specialist and project manager at Nera Networks AS, Norway. Between 2006 and 2007 he was working as research engineer and project manager at Acreo AB, Sweden. Dr. Gidlund holds more than 20 patents (granted and pending applications) in the area of wireless communication, he has published more than 100 scientific articles in refereed international fora and has been guest editor for two special issues of IEEE Transaction on Industrial Informatics. He received best paper award of the IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology in 2014.