Europe ends up in a fascinating position at the present time as it searches internally for advancement & improvement that support Small Businesses financially and technically with ease of policies and low-cost Business registrations. Many European tech startups from reaching the same levels of dominance as those in the US. Here we have mentioned the Best innovative Hardware & IoT Startups in Europe
1. Lilium
Lilium is now a thriving startup driven by the passion to revolutionize personal transportation. lilium has flourished into a team of more than 35 world-class engineers, designers, and pioneers. At Lilium, they are active pioneers of tomorrow´s technology. They excel at innovation and strive for perfection. And they want to be the first and the best in electric VTOL aviation.
Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Wessling, bavaria Wessling, Bavaria. The group shares the vision of a completely new type of individual transportation and is dedicated to developing and building the world’s first fully electric vertical take-off and landing (vtol) jet. An estimated range of up to 300 km and a top speed of 300 km/h, along with zero emissions make it the most efficient and eco-friendly individual means of transportation of our time. By providing ultra-redundancy, the Lilium jet will also set new standards in safety and aims at liberating towns and cities from today’s congestion and pollution, with people able to come and go freely, vastly expanding the radius of their everyday lives.
2. Nexiot
Nexiot is an industrial Internet of things that offers enterprises the chance to create new value and improve their competitive edge. It’s one thing to connect a few devices, but it’s more difficult when there are thousands of them or they’re scattered across remote and impractical locations.
Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Zürich. Since spinning off from eth zürich, one of the world’s top technical universities, nexiot quickly became one of Europe’s leading providers of integrated digital supply chain solutions. The company is built on over 10 years of research in complex systems, big data algorithms and ultra-low-power embedded technology, and today equips entire fleets of logistics assets, such as railway wagons and cargo containers, with proprietary low-power sensors that provide raw data on location, movement, physical shock, and other parameters in near-real time to the company’s proprietary analytics platform, where it generates business-relevant complex events and communicates these directly “machine-to-machine” to the clients’ systems.
3. KONUX
Konux is a Munich-based company that combines smart sensors and Ai-based data analytics to help railway companies switch to predictive maintenance. The end-to-end solution helps clients continuously monitor their infrastructure, identify maintenance needs ahead of time, and improve operational efficiency.
Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Munich. The Konux technology uses artificial intelligence to help clients to continuously monitor their infrastructure and to improve their operations. The end-to-end sensor data solution empowers industrial and rail companies to reach a new level of asset performance and currently digitizing Deutsche Bahn’s high-speed rail network through condition monitoring of switches, the most critical part of the railway infrastructure, and enable db to significantly reduce inspection and maintenance costs and improve operational efficiency.
4. H&D Wireless
H&D wireless ab enables wireless sensor and multimedia data access to the internet in an environmentally friendly and cost-effective way. The technology is a world-class Wi-Fi system solution that offers ultra-low power, small size, and low cost. Supported on leading microcontroller platforms it allows for quick design turnaround.
Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Kista, Stockholm. H&D wireless solutions are used in a wide range of applications ranging from smart energy meters for cleantech to streaming data for digital media. H&D Labs is an Internet of things cloud and platform service provider offering turnkey solutions that will accelerate time to market for our customers. H&D Wireless has leveraged strengths in low-power analog and rf design, combined with deep expertise in embedded system architecture, to develop a new suite of wi-fi products. The H&D wireless design is encapsulating and answers the challenges faced by embedded system designers, and the constraints of the host microcontroller driving their systems.
5. Flo Live
Flolive offers a complete, cloud-based IoT eco-system that includes a core network with integrated device management, inventory, and billing services is enabling the customers to manage their devices via live mobile device platform and the solution provides the flexibility of choosing between various mobile network profiles via our mno partnerships.
Founded in 2015 and headquartered in London, UK. Flolive offers a global IoT ecosystem in the cloud, designed for chipset manufacturers, IoT service providers, mnos, and iot platforms. Flo Live Limited uses a managed core network, true device management, and IoT applications and analytics to deliver an end-to-end cloud-based IoT ecosystem. It promises to unlock IoT revenue growth for customers. A typical customer is provided with a turn-key cloud-based platform exposed as an easy-to-use API that enables domain-specific IoT analytics, task automation, and customized IoT applications.
6. Graphcore
Graphcore server hardware system accelerates the processing of complex machine learning models for training and inference and has created a new processor, the intelligence processing unit (ipu), specifically designed for artificial intelligence. The ipu’s unique architecture means developers can run current machine learning models orders of magnitude faster.
Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Bristol. Graphcore believes ipu technology will become the worldwide standard for artificial intelligence computers. The performance of Graphcore’s ipu is going to be transformative across all industries and sectors whether you are a medical researcher, roboticist, or building autonomous cars. The team is at the forefront of the artificial intelligence revolution, enabling innovators from all industries and sectors to expand human potential with technology.
7. DecaWave
Decawave develops semiconductor solutions, software, modules, and reference designs that enable real-time, ultra-accurate, ultra-reliable local area micro-location services. Decawave’s technology enables an entirely new class of easy-to-implement, highly secure, intelligent location functionality and services for IoT and smart consumer products and applications.
Founded in 2004, and headquartered in Dublin. Decawave has identified the rich potential of ultra-wideband (uwb) technology, with a particular focus on real-time location systems (rtls) and wireless sensor networks (wsns), and has been instrumental in developing the alternate phy ieee802.15.4a standard. The resulting silicon has a wide range of applications and Decawave is currently working with lead companies in over 30 different verticals to develop applications in areas as diverse as agriculture, manufacturing, healthcare, lighting, security, transport, inventory & supply chain management.
8. DigiFlak
DigiFlak is the leader of a new innovative approach to data security management, protecting confidential data from most types of internal and network threats and to help users and companies to protect computer-held data against damaging breaches by securing workers’ digital keys, passwords, nd certificates in a safe, separate hardware environment.
Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Tallinn. DigiFlak manufactures flak security USB dongles, Dongles are based on dedicated flak chipset hardware and se(curit)os firmware. These devices along with the embedded software form a prospective platform for further development and supervised remote installation of new software modules from different manufacturers. All devices are fully compatible with all popular operating systems and the majority of individual and corporate platforms. Of particular interest are mobile devices and applications (netbooks, smartphones, tablets, etc.).
9. Actility
Actility is positioned on the m2m (machine to machine) market and on communicating objects (internet of things) deployed on a massive scale in various markets segments, particularly in the energy sector. the largest, most powerful standards-based effort to enable the internet of things (iot).
Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Paris. Actility is an industry leader in lpwa (low power wide area) large-scale infrastructure with thingpark, the new generation standard-based iot / m2m communication platform. Actility’s thingpark wireless network provides lora/lorawan long-range coverage for low-power sensors used in smart city, Smart-building and Smart factory applications. Actility also provides the thingpark cloud which provides big data storage for sensor data and exposes sensor function through an open API allowing developers to provide vertical applications on top of rolled out sensors. To help vendors transform their sensors, actility provides the thingpark iot platform which includes embedded software solutions and cloud solutions to help devices connect to innovative applications.
10. Adveez
Adveez leverages LoRa Technology to assist airports globally to reduce the costs of maintaining in-motion ground equipment including tractors and pallets. LoRa-enabled sensors capture usage and location data from equipment and transmit it wirelessly to gateways. The data alerts the airlines to perform maintenance based on actual usage, eliminates the need to collect usage data manually and reduces expensive repair costs. The Adveez asset tracking platform is currently used by major airlines at airports across Europe and North America.
Founded in 2011 and Headquartered in Toulouse. Adveez deploys iot solutions for markets such as smart cities with tracking of bicycles in bike share programs and other city-wide data capture applications. Adveez provides solutions for dementia resident and elderly resident safety with innovative watch-based sensors for door proximity and fall detection and to develop advanced and easy solutions by managing every step of the product life-cycle including the r&d, design, testing, production, distribution, and support. In-house expertise allows adveez to stay ahead of the market and offer its customers the best available technology while ensuring ease-of-use.
