Dr. Pat Doody is an experienced Researcher and Lecturer in the School of Science and Computing in the Institute of Technology Tralee (ITT). Pat is the Co-founder and Executive Director of the Centre for Innovation in Distributed Systems (CIDS) at ITT. Pat was also Co-Founder and Co-Leader of the Wireless and Mobility Research Group at the ITT. His research interests include AutoID technologies, wireless technologies, intelligent knowledge discovery, data mining, and application of artificial intelligence based neural network algorithms, quality of voice systems and energy initiatives. In partnership with ALTOBRIDGE Ltd. (www.altobridge .com), a network communications start-up located in the Kerry Technology Park, Pat was the principal investigator for this project to develop an integrated end-to-end RFID tag to back office architecture. Pat obtained his bachelor degree in mathematics from the University of Limerick, Ireland in 1991 and PhD in mathematics focusing on artificial intelligence and neural networks from the University Of Limerick, Ireland.

Mr. Andrew Shields is a member of the CIDS group at the Institute of Technology Tralee, Co Kerry, Ireland. He has recently completed working on a project which conducted research into the area of integrating RFID networks with public mobile platforms such as GSM /GPRS. He completed his Masters of Science degree at the Institute of Technology Tralee in 2007. He obtained his First Class Honours Bachelor degree in software development in 2002,also from the Institute of Technology Tralee. Andrew is currently undertaking a PhD. programme in ITT in the area of Artificial Intelligence with a particular focus on Reality Mining.

Mr. Jose Vicente Díez Fidalgo is a member of the CIDS group since January 2011. He has completed his Technical Engineering in Computer Systems at Universitat Jaume I, Castellón de la Plana (Spain).

He is a networking and system administrator, specially GNU/Linux as well as Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Currently he is developing web applications, most of them using free software, also in Microsoft Windows platform.