Prof. Dr. Christian Pätz was born in Chemnitz/GDR in 1966. After an apprenticeship as an electronics engineer, he studied electrical engineering in Dresden and at the Technical University of Chemnitz, where he graduated in 1993 and received his doctorate in 1998. In 2000, he founded Peppercon AG, which in its founding year was recognized as the most successful technology start-up in Saxony. After the sale of the company to Raritan Inc. New Jersey/USA, he worked there from 2004 to 2012 in various management positions. Between 2012 and 2017 he will return to Chemnitz University of Technology as an endowed professor for system reliability. At the same time, Z-Wave Europe GmbH in Hohenstein-Ernstthal, Germany, which was founded in 2008, built up the largest European distributor for Z-Wave-based smart home technology, which was acquired by a private equity fund in 2016. His current field of work lies in the area of LORA radio technology and systems for early detection