Vitor H. Carvalho received his degree in industrial electronics engineering in the option of telecommunications and industrial informatics, in 2002 and MSc in industrial electronics, in the option of automation and robotics in 2004, both from Minho University, Portugal. In July, 2008, he received his PhD degree in industrial electronics, covering the development of an automatic system of yarn characterization. He his currently working as assistant professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave (IPCA), Barcelos, Portugal and in the Portuguese Catholic University (UCP), Braga, Portugal as well as Researcher in the Algortimi Centre of Minho University, Braga, Portugal. He is also the Director of the Department of Technologies at IPCA. His main fields of interest are industrial informatics, data acquisition and signal processing. He has published more than 50 papers and is member of the Editoral Advisory Board of several Journals and Conferences.