Information Technologies Institute (ITI) – formerly known as Informatics and Telematics Institute – is a research institute that was founded in 1998 as a non-profit organisation under the auspices of the General Secretariat for Research and Technology (GSRT) of Greece, with its head office located in Thessaloniki, Greece. Since 2000 it is a founding member of the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH) also supervised by the GSRT. CERTH/ITI is one of the leading Greek institutions in the field of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) with long experience in numerous European and National R&D projects. Over the last years, the ITI research team has authored many publications and papers in scientific journals and international conferences (for a complete list visit http://www.iti.gr/). CERTH/ITI has also created a (near) Zero Energy Building based on state of the art construction materials with smart sensing technologies that provide advanced and innovative technological testbed infrastructure. The “nZEB Smart Home” (https://smarthome.iti.gr/) is part of the Digital Innovation Hubs (http://s3platform.jrc.ec.europa.eu/digital-innovation-hubs-tool/-/dih/1521/view) and developed under the initiative of Digitizing European Industry, with the supervisor of the project being Dr. Dimitrios Tzovaras.