J. R. de la Pinta studied Telecommunication Engineering at the University of Seville, and he obtained his Master in Automation, Robotics and ICT in 2011. In 2017, he got his PhD in the area of interoperability in heterogeneous systems. His thesis was mainly based on the integration of Service Robots in the Smart Home and how  different interoperability technologies could be integrated to provide novel services and was supervised by J. M. Maestre and E. F. Camacho. He has contributed in papers and books related to home automation, robots integration, predictive control and interoperability solutions.