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SME
Expertise and
Skills
in the 5G Domain

Useful links
Find the SME you need

www.networld2020.eu/ﬁnd-the-sme-you-need/

NetWorld2020 SME support

www.networld2020.eu/sme-support

NetWorld2020 European Technology Platform
www.networld2020.eu

5G Public-Private Partnership
www.5g-ppp.eu

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SME Expertise and Skills
in the 5G Domain

EDITORIAL

JACQUES MAGEN
InterInnov
Chair of the SME Working Group

I am very proud to present the second
edition of the brochure on “SME
Expertise and Skills in the 5G Domain”.
Like the previous version, it aims at
showing the expertise and skills from
selected European Small and Mediumsized Enterprises (SMEs) in 5G and
related domains. This time, we are
focusing more on the expertise that
could be useful in various industry
vertical sectors. Indeed, this is one of
the major diﬀerences between 5G and
the previous generations of mobile and
wireless systems: 5G will be so pervasive
that it will be used in a much broader
landscape, addressing requirements
from such sectors as automotive
and transport, media and content,
manufacturing and logistics, energy,
health, and many others.
Small and Medium-sized Enterprises
(SMEs) have an important role to play
in developing, piloting and deploying
5G technologies, both to help with
disruptive technologies and to address
the needs of various vertical sectors.
European SMEs have a great added
value in providing innovative concepts
and solutions that are having an
important impact on the 5G value chain.
They have the agility and ﬂexibility
required in a fast evolving technical and
market landscape. This has been well
understood within the 5G Public-Private
Partnership (5G PPP), where SMEs have
a 20% share. Since 2017, the Board
of the 5G Infrastructure Association
includes two SME representatives (out
of 12 members).
This brochure aims at continuing to
achieve SME participation in new
projects looking further in terms of
cooperation with vertical industry
stakeholders, including but not limited
to Phase 3 of the 5G PPP, looking at
developing 5G platforms and large-

scale trials in various vertical industrial
sectors. I am fully convinced that SMEs
have a great added value in providing
innovative 5G related concepts and
solutions that could be used in various
industry sectors. SMEs have the agility
and ﬂexibility that are required in a
fast evolving technical and market
landscape and are already working in
many of those sectors. They are willing
to work with larger industrial companies
and research organisations to develop
leading 5G solutions for the global
market.
I would like to thank all my colleagues
in the SME Working Group for their
contribution and their hard work, and I
am looking forward to seeing more and
more European SMEs cooperate with
European and non-European partners
in the near future, for the development
and deployment of 5G in various vertical
industry sectors.
Please note that this brochure is
complemented with a web page
providing details on SME expertise in
relation with 5G PPP Phase 3, entitled
“Find the SME you need!”, that is
available at www.networld2020.eu/
ﬁnd-the-sme-you-need/.
NetWorld2020 is the European Technology
Platform for telecommunications and related
services and applications. The SME Working
Group is the networking place for SMEs. It
helps promote SME activities and expertise
(including but not limited to 5G) towards
other stakeholders, in particular large
companies. For more information on the
activities of the SME Working Group, please
have a look at www.networld2020.eu/smesupport/.

COMPANY PROFILES
CUMUCORE

QUOBIS NETWORKS SL

FUTURE INTELLIGENCE

REAL-WIRELESS

INCELLIGENT

RFSAT

INTEGRASYS

SENCEPTION

INTERINNOV

SEVEN SOLUTIONS

INTERNET INSTITUTE LTD.

SIKLU

IS-WIRELESS

SPECTRUM INSIGHT LTD

ITTI

SUITE5 DATA INTELLIGENCE SOLUTIONS LIMITED

LIONIX INTERNATIONAL

SYNELIXIS SOLUTIONS S.A.

LIVEU LTD

TREELOGIC

MARTEL INNOVATE

TST-SISTEMAS

MOLTOSENSO

UBITECH

MONTIMAGE

UBIWHERE

NEXTWORKS

VERTICAL M2M

NOUVEAUCOMM

VISIONA INGENIERÍA DE PROYECTOS S.L.

OPEN-CELLS

WEST AQUILA

POWER-OPS

WINGS ICT SOLUTIONS

SUCCESS STORIES

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SME Expertise and Skills
in the 5G Domain

CUMUCORE
Year established
Number of employees
Website
Contact email

2015
8
www.cumucore.com
info@cumucore.com

Expertise in 5G

Expertise in R&D and Innovation

5G micro-services Service Based Architecture
integrated with SDN orchestrator to provide
Network slicing and Ultra Reliable Low Latency
communication for Energy, Industrial and
manufacturing Applications. Currently the 5G NGC
core supports CIoT which is integrated with Uniﬁed
Device Management system. The eMBMS feature is
also supported in NGC for media delivery and Critical
Communications Services.

Cumucore R&D team has been involved for over
15 years in cooperation with industry partners
in projects such as MEVICO, SIGMONA, TAKE-5G
and leading innovation in SDN used for mobile
network management (SDN backhaul for mobility
management WO 2015150638 A1)

Expertise in vertical sectors
Cumucore has expertise in network slicing based
on SDN at networking layer. Network slicing
orchestrator manages the network resources at
Layer 2/3 based on VLAN tags and MPLS labels to
guarantee low latency and high reliability network
slice for Industrial Internet, media distribution or
other mission critical applications like public safety.
Cumucore provides the ﬁrst deployment of 3GPP
User Data Convergence (UDC) repository to manage
NB-IOT devices and sensor data.

Cumucore team contributed to standardisation
First ITU ETSI Proof-of-Concept with SDN managed
mobile backhaul (ETSI PoC #23)
Cumucore provides the cloud core network at the
world-ﬁrst Licensed Shared Access (LSA) pilot. The
ﬁnal results of the Italian pilot on the LSA were
presented in Rome on 23rd September 2016.
Potential interest in R&D and Innovation Cooperation
Cumucore has interest in 5G related R&I activities to
ensure interoperability of their current products with
other partners. Moreover, collecting requirements
and needs from verticals in the areas of Industrial
Internet, manufacturing, smart energy and NB-IOT
services is important to mature Cumucore oﬀering.

Our unique selling point
Cumucore R&D team has expertise and available
products in technologies such as 5G NGC, Network
slicing (based on SDN), CIOT and eMBMS which
can be tailored for diﬀerent service needs based
on customer/partner requirements. Cumucore can
deliver early prototypes of new solutions based on
their current product portfolio.

FUTURE INTELLIGENCE
Year established
Number of employees
Website
Contact email

2009
10
www.f-in.gr
tmoysiadis@f-in.gr

Expertise in 5G

Expertise in R&D and Innovation

Future Intelligence (FINT) is a Greek Telecom
Engineering company with a mission to deliver
innovative solutions for Next Generation Wireless
Systems. Having deployed a WiMAX bubble to
integrate heterogeneous UxVs’ payloads (2013), and
built a general purpose Cyber-Physical twin platform
for IoT (2014) it now focuses on “softwarising”
hardware and enabling on-demand, low-cost
service oﬀering (NFV, SDN) for 4/5G networks (since
2015). On the contrary, the company enhances
edge-network “hardwarization” on top of its
programmable net-FPGA Portable Cloud Platform
that accelerates fronthaul network performance and
distributes network processing (since 2017). Last,
FINT’s emerging IoT gateway would adjust multiple
radio access interfaces (6LoWPAN, BLE, LoRa) to
core 5G infrastructure.

FINT has rich experience in FP7, MED (INTERREG),
SEE, Greek and UK national funds and of course
H2020. The company has built a competitive, inhouse RnD department which also delivers RnD
services for and on account of the private sector.

Expertise in vertical sectors
FINT has commercial deployments in Smart Cities
and Smart Agriculture that will transform into crossdomain business cases. For the former, a network
infrastructure based on outdoor LEDs is launched
which is also capable to support Smart Cameras
for Security and Parking purposes. For the Smart
Farming case, smart sensor nodes feed a powerful
gateway at the network edge with on-ﬁeld sensors
which can also host anomalies’ detection from UAVs’
Area Surveillance mission notably used for Forest
Monitoring. In addition, NFV and SDN services may
be oﬀered to Telecom Operators to optimise their
OPEX and improve the quality of services.

Potential interest in R&D and Innovation
Cooperation
FINT would very much welcome collaboration on
the convergence of front and backhaul network
leveraging the edge IoT gateway capabilities. In
addition, case-studies and pilots in certain verticals
would be of high interest especially in the inclusive
smart cities domain (transportation, energy, water)
where citizens, businesses and authorities interact.

Our unique selling point
The company was established as an RnD intensive
SME but soon succeeded in exploiting such funds
to build commercial products and services that are
now enabling it to scale. As a result, FINT couples
strong technical engineering competencies with
the required soft skills to quickly identify the route
to market and reach appropriate stakeholders
following a win-win partnership approach.

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SME Expertise and Skills
in the 5G Domain

INCELLIGENT
Year established
Number of employees
Website
Contact email

2014
10
www.incelligent.net
info@incelligent.net

Expertise in 5G

Expertise in R&D and Innovation

Incelligent is an Athens-based, dynamic SME, active
in Europe, US and MENA region oﬀering intelligent
Predictive and Actionable solutions for Telecom
Network/Service Providers and other Vertical
industries. Its founders and workforce consist of
senior telecom/ R&D engineers, highly competent
software developers and data scientists. The main
intellectual property of Incelligent is its modular,
analytics software platform used -among others- in
recent projects and pilots for:

Incelligent’s R&D and innovation actions are
carried out partly through participation into
various EU projects and through its involvement
in standardization bodies. Currently, Incelligent
participates in two 5G-PPP projects, namely
MATILDA and 5G-PHOS, staying on top of current
developments in the 5G ecosystem technologies.
Indicative research domains are advanced analytics,
state-of-the art machine learning algorithms,
software deﬁned networks, automation of resource
management. Additionally, Incellligent is involved
in various working groups and -among othersparticipates in the development and demonstration
of an ETSI NTECH 5G PoC.

(a) Strategic planning and future evolution of 5G
mobile networks, (b) Proactive customer experience
management for Telco and Fintech, (c) network
optimization in wireless networks.

Expertise in vertical sectors
Incelligent products involve a sophisticated software
system and separate software products based on
big data analytics, state-of-the-art machine learning
and artiﬁcial intelligence algorithms towards the
provisioning of predictive and prescriptive solutions.
Its domain-agnostic approach allows for versatility
and easy deployment of solutions in various vertical
sectors and CRM solutions. Recently, Incelligent has
successfully developed solutions for the banking
sector: (a) Customer 360 & micro-segmentation, (b)
Targeted product recommendations, (c) Probability
of default prediction and (d) Intelligent automated
text classiﬁcation of customer complaints.

Potential interest in R&D and Innovation
Cooperation
Incelligent is always interested in cooperations
with other organizations in the context of research
projects, as well as product development, investing
in R&I whether in the Telco sector or in vertical
sectors. The company is highly interested in novel
products and solutions that involve one or more of
the following within the 5G ecosystem: Advanced
Machine Learning and Artiﬁcial Intelligence
solutions, autonomic resource management of
wireless networks, smart marketing/ CRM solutions
and IoT management solutions.

Our unique selling point
We provide tailored, out-of-the-box solutions that
utilize state-of-the-art Artiﬁcial Intelligence and Big
Data technologies, going beyond simple analytics
and oﬀering in-depth insights, predictive as well as
prescriptive analytics.

INTEGRASYS
Year established
Number of employees
Website
Contact email

Expertise in 5G
IntegraSys is an SME engineering company
specialized in the design, development and
integration of Real Time software for network
infrastructure (management, monitoring and
control), service provisioning, and Operation
System Suppor in the area of wireless, aerospace
and mobile communications. The company also
develops solution for automated measurement and
certiﬁcation systems in the telecommunication ﬁeld.

Expertise in vertical sectors
Integrasys provides solution in the following sectors:
-

Satellite: Remote network monitoring and
management, including own OSS tools with
network virtualization. Integration with
terrestrial network. Backhaul.

Public Safety Communication: Secured
communication of emergency situation, fast
deployment, interoperable communication
among robotics vehicles. Protection of critical
infrastructure.

Factories: WSN for harsh environment,
including Factories and Power Plants.

Media Delivery, content aware video delivery,
hybrid broadcast (DVB-Tx /-Sx) and broadband
(LTE) based on DASH. Video surveillance (H264
over Sat/terrestrial).

H2020 ECSEL IoSENSE (2015-2018):
To
establish the base for increased manufacturing
capacity for integrated sensors in Europe.
Integrasys work on the connectivity part and
IoT demonstrators
H2020 AIOSAT (2017 - 2019): To develop a Safety
Critical team tracking and communication
solution for workers under high risk.
H2020 RESISTO (2018-2021): Protection of
Telecommunication infrastructure both from
physical and cyberattacks

Integrasys has been participating in more than 20
R&D EU project from FP4.

Potential interest in R&D and Innovation
Cooperation
Improving our commercial products, network
management, secured network, interference
mitigation and management, harsh condition,
Satellite Communication, safety critical, real time,
NFV, SDN, SDR, mobile edge computing.

Our unique selling point
-

Expertise in R&D and Innovation
We have experience for over 19 years in European
R&D projects in consortia, working mainly as
software developers and system integrators in
the ﬁeld of Mobile and Satellite Communications,
Software and Services, and embedded platforms
design and development. It is emphasized:

1990
25
www.integrasys-space.com
pedro.ruiz@integrasys-sa.com

Expertise in this Telecom domain (more than
25 years working with main players in SatCom,
Telecom Operator and ESA).
Business impact and capacity to exploit the
results, including internationalization out of
EU (60% of our market is out of Europe, mainly
US). This is seen as good point, especially
considering we are a SME.
Cross knowledge on integrated mobile
terrestrial networks, WSN and Satellite
networks.
Application to domains as Security or Factories
monitoring, Electric Plant, Railway… We can
bring end users on these domains.
Most of our products come from R&D projects,
which is since as a very positive example of
innovation.

SME Expertise and Skills
in the 5G Domain

SUCCESS STORIES
CUMUCORE
Cumucore successfully ran the ﬁrst
SDN based network slicing in Surrey
5G Innovation Center as part of
SoftFIRE experimentation platform.
www.softﬁre.eu/user-stories/oc2_5gnaas/

INTEGRASYS

INCELLIGENT
Incelligent has developed mechanisms
for the proactive management of: (i)
wireless broadband networks (applied
currently in real network settings;
leading to the US patent 9,942,085);
(ii) the customer experience, which
led to the attraction of interest/
investments from the FinTech (e.g.,
banking) sectors.

A company that has successfully
commercialized products that were
initially developed in EU R&D projects.
EU based company whose main
market is in USA, Latam, EMEA and
Australia. Our products have been
awarded four time in most prestigious
forums of Satellite Communication in
New York, Washington and London.

INTERINNOV
InterInnov is a front runner in the
Ecosystem Building of European R+I
initiatives. Our team leads the SME
Working Group and the Communication
Channel of the whole 5G PPP
Community, as well as the Outreach and
Exploitation in 5G-MEDIA, the 5G project
boosting the Media Industry.

INTERINNOV
Year established
Number of employees
Website
Contact email

Expertise in 5G
CONNECT, DRIVE, COMMUNICATE -InterInnov is one
of the key ecosystem builders of the European 5G
landscape since 2013. Member of the NetWorld2020
Steering Board, the company chairs the Working
Group focused on empowering the position of Small
and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). InterInnov
is also a Board Member of the 5G Infrastructure
Association and an active partner in projects from
the 5G Public Private Partnership (5G PPP). Our scope
includes coordination and support actions, research
and innovation initiatives with an impact on vertical
domains and international joint cooperation in the
advancement of 5G with countries such as China and
the USA.

Expertise in vertical sectors
InterInnov assembles a large network of contacts
at European and international level in the industry
and public administration in various sectors. In the
context of 5G, the company is a leading partner of the
H2020 project 5G-MEDIA, one of the ﬁrst initiatives
targeting a vertical sector within the scope of the
5G PPP, in particular the Media Industry. We are
responsible for the Dissemination, Communication
and Exploitation eﬀorts of this action.

2009
5
www.interinnov.eu
contact@interinnov.eu

Potential interest in R&D and Innovation
Cooperation
As a company specialised in Open Innovation,
we permanently seek new opportunities for
cooperation with our comprehensive network
of stakeholders, which include industry, SMEs,
academia and public administration. Our particular
interest concentrates in initiatives where disruptive
technology creates a positive impact for the society,
such as the vertical sectors of Media, Smart Cities,
Health, Transportation and Safety. In addition, we
hold interest at international scale, contributing to
build up joint agendas with reference countries in
5G such as the US, Canada, Taiwan, Brazil, Korea,
China and Japan.

Our unique selling point
Our value proposition is to transform the European
powerhouse of Science and Technology into tangible
results, getting Research and Innovation closer
to the market and to the communities that can
beneﬁt or contribute to it, whether they belong to
Industry, Academia, Public Administrations, or the
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Ecosystems.

Expertise in R&D and Innovation

Our activities represent a benchmark in the Transfer
of Technology, Ecosystem Building and International
collaboration of the European R&D and Innovation
landscape. Involved in the European Commission’s
Framework Programmes since it was established in
2009, the company has participated in a signiﬁcant
number of FP7 and H2020 projects, with a prominent
role in initiatives related to Information and
Communication Technologies (ICT), such as the 5G
PPP, the Future Internet PPP and the Future Internet
Research & Experimentation (FIRE) programmes.

SME Expertise and Skills
in the 5G Domain

INTERNET INSTITUTE LTD.
Year established
Number of employees
Website
Contact email

2014
3 + 9 Associates
www.iinstitute.eu
janez.sterle@iinstitute.eu

Expertise in 5G

Expertise in R&D and Innovation

INTERNET INSTITUTE Ltd. (ININ) is an innovationintensive SME, specialized in QoS and QoE
measurement solutions, quality assurance systems
and services, and emergency response and
intervention management tools for public safety
needs. We have expertise in 5G performance and
quality metrics development and validation, 5G
benchmarking and end-to-end KPIs validation,
and quality monitoring and SLA assurance for
orchestrated 5G infrastructures and services. Also,
we are experienced in design and deployment of
reliable and resilient 5G infrastructures for public
safety needs.

ININ is active in R&I and industrial projects domain
and is part of the 5G PPP Phase 2 programme
(project MATILDA, www.matilda-5g.eu). We work
on monitoring and QoS and QoE evidence collection
capabilities in the 5G-orchestrator solution. Also,
we are involved in planning and implementation of
5G vertical use cases for the emergency response
domain, including piloting in realistic environments
in joint cooperation with PPDR practitioners.

Expertise in vertical sectors

Our particular interests for upcoming 5G research
are: quality assurance of mobile, ﬁxed and cloud
systems, including 5G performance and quality
metrics development and validation, 5G testing,
benchmarking and 5G end-to-end KPIs validation;
quality monitoring and SLA assurance for 5G
infrastructures and services; and R&I and piloting
of resilient real-time 5G critical infrastructures,
and specialised 5G deployments for public safety,
automotive and intelligent transport, and smart grid
verticals.

ININ addresses telco, corporate and vertical
industrial sectors with their qMON portfolio for
quality monitoring and SLA assurance, benchmarking
and end-to-end validation of communication
infrastructures and services. In addition, we
specialise in design, development and integration
of on-site and backhaul critical communications
solutions and intervention monitoring tools and
apps for the public safety sector. We cooperate
tightly with PPDR practitioners and we are involved
in several R&D and piloting projects addressing the
delivery of future proof communication systems,
services and apps for 112 and emergency response
needs.

Potential interest in R&D and Innovation
Cooperation

Our unique selling point
We practice R&I in tight cooperation with end-users
and practitioners, leading to real-world piloting and
actual deployments in practice.

IS-WIRELESS
Year established
Number of employees
Website
Contact email

Expertise in 5G
IS-Wireless develops algorithms, protocols, and
tools for 4G and 5G mobile networks. We provide
licensable software in the two following areas: 1)
NFV-compatible, standard-compliant RAN protocols
ready for evolution to 5G. The product is named
Software-Deﬁned RAN. This allows mobile networks
to support more users with better performance
at lower cost. 2) Experimentation solutions- the
5GToolset supporting research and education on
4G and 5G. Our ambition is to bring 4G and 5G
innovation for every university and research lab
worldwide at aﬀordable prices.

Expertise in vertical sectors
One of our ﬁrst projects was the design and
implementation of a complete broadband access
system for one of the providers of Polish Ministry
of Defense. This shows our capabilities within the
public safety vertical sector.

2006
15
www.is-wireless.com
info@is-wireless.com

Potential interest in R&D and Innovation
Cooperation
We are looking for partners willing to collaborate in:
(i) development of 5G small cell protocols and radio
resource management solutions for 4G/5G and
cloud-RAN (ii) delivering cyber security solutions
for 4G/5G small cells. We look forward to cooperate
with verticals (media, IoT/automotive, public safety)
as we have our proprietary solutions for virtualized
RAN that can be tailored and further adjusted per
use-case.

Our unique selling point
IS-Wireless aims to become the leading global
software partner for the LTE/5G base station
ecosystem by delivering cutting edge radio protocols
and signal processing algorithms.

Expertise in R&D and Innovation
We are experts in the following areas: Baseband PHY
waveforms and algorithms for LTE, LTE-A and 5G,
eNB and UE L2-L3 protocols, SDN and NFV in RAN,
Radio resource management for LTE, LTE-A and 5G,
link-level and system-level simulations of wireless
systems.
IS-Wireless is an active participant of collaborative
research projects on 4G, 5G and beyond, within
5G-PPP, H2020 and FP7 projects.

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SME Expertise and Skills
in the 5G Domain

ITTI
Year established
Number of employees
Website
Contact email

Expertise in 5G
The main competences of ITTI related to 5G are in PHY
layer (channel coding, modulation, signal processing,
synchronisation) and MAC layer (admission control,
congestion control optimization), cognitive resource
control and service adaptation (cross-layer, context
driven, machine learning based, QoE/QoS), network
and cybersecurity, test campaigns (e.g. video
systems, mobile data services) and validation by
means of system/link level simulators (LTE, WIMAX).

Expertise in vertical sectors
Our expertise covers eHealth, energy, and public
safety vertical sectors. We developed Medstar.co
solution that oﬀers telecare support for remote
patients. In the energy sector, we worked on optimal
control for smart cities (e.g. light control, energy
management). We also have extensive expertise in
economic evaluation of PPDR networks and social
media usage in crisis management within the public
safety sector.

1996
60
www.itti.com.pl
Krzysztof.Samp@itti.com.pl

Potential interest in R&D and Innovation
Cooperation
Having a competent and experienced team of
telecommunication engineers and software
developers, ITTI is interested in collaboration with
partners on development of innovative solutions for
vertical sectors in the 5G ecosystem. In particular,
we are interested in integrating novel technologies
to our eHealth Medstar.co solution to enhance its
functionality leveraging 5G capabilities. We are
also seeking partners for collaboration on security
solutions for 5G networks.

Our unique selling point
We develop software solutions and innovative
applications driven by our longtime and rich
experience and interest in R&D activities, particularly
in the area of ICT and security.

Expertise in R&D and Innovation
ITTI has over 15 years of experience in numerous
EC funded projects – starting from FP5 to H2020
presently . We also carry out R&D projects for
European Defence Agency (EDA) and European
Space Agency (ESA). Besides the interest in ICT, our
company has signiﬁcant expertise in sensor systems,
data analysis and visualisation, simulations in crisis
management, lessons learnt systems (knowledge
management), security (cybersecurity, CBRN
protection), biometrics, and space technologies and
research.

SUCCESS STORIES
INTERNET INSTITUTE
INTERNET INSTITUTE is now
recognized as trusted partner in
the 5G quality assurance and public
safety domain, collaborating with
various industrial, public and research
partners.

IS-WIRELESS
Since 2012 IS-Wireless has participated
in competitive R&D projects funded by
EU.

ITTI
ITTI has contributed to over 50
international R&D projects in the EC
Framework Programmes (5FP, 6FP, 7FP,
H2020), EDA programmes and ESA
programmes.

MARTEL INNOVATE
Orchestra Cities is Martel’s Smart City platform,
which was selected among the ﬁve top ones
(ranked #2) by a Pre-Procurement Action
run by Antwerp, Copenhagen and Helsinki.
Through several iteration rounds, the platform
is now maturing into a solution that allows the
collaborative creation of Smart Cities involving
diﬀerent stakeholders through Open APIs and
Open Data. Martel is now in discussion with
several municipalities and companies in the Smart
City market willing to leverage on this platform for
eﬀective, ﬂexible and scalable smart city services
oﬀering and management.

LIONIX INTERNATIONAL
LioniX International has secured
a seven-ﬁgure contract for the
development and fabrication of
integrated photonic modules
that enable ultra-high capacity
broadband satellite communications
from ﬂat-panel aeronautical
antennas. This contract with ViaSat
Antenna Systems S.A. is part of
the ESA project AIDAN and follows
years of intensive research and
development.

LIONIX INTERNATIONAL
Year established
Number of employees
Website
Contact email

Expertise in 5G
LioniX International develops integrated microwave
photonics (iMWP) solutions, in particular integrated
photonic modules, optical beamforming networks
(OBFN), that enable ultra-high capacity broadband
communications from ﬂat-panel antennas for
mmWave satellite, aeronautical and 5G terrestrial
applications. Our core technology is based on
hybrid integration of high-contrast, low-loss, silicon
nitride photonics, called TriPleX™, with an Indium
Phosphide (InP). This platform provides small,
integrated modules with novel RF-functions such
as, switches, ﬁlters, true-time-delay-lines, WDM
and more. We are partner in H2020 5G-projects
blueSPACE and 5GPHOS.

Expertise in vertical sectors
We provide customized solutions for OEM’s and
System Integrators, from design to fully assembled
modules, by vertical integration and in scalable
production volumes. We maintain our technology
leadership secured by a strong IP position. LioniX
International focuses on Photonic Integrated Circuits
(PIC) enabled modules based on its proprietary
waveguide technology (TriPleX™), in addition to its
other core competences micro-ﬂuidics, opto-ﬂuidics
and MEMS.
Our PIC modules and additional competences can be
used in a suite of applications in Telecom/Datacom,
Life Science, Metrology and is oﬀered as well in our
technology services.

Expertise in R&D and Innovation
Our proprietary TriPleX™ platform enables hyperspectral (400-2350 nm) Photonic Integrated Circuits.
Research and Development focusses on integration
of conﬁgurable integrated photonics functionality,
using piezo-based low-power actuation, also co-

2001
53
www.lionix-international.com
p.w.l.vandijk@lionix-int.com

developped in the H2020 EU projects HAMLET
and 3PEAT. Other joint research envisions further
improvements towards mmWave performance. Our
PIC modules are developed for diﬀerent types of
products in Life Science applications, like confocal
microscopy, ﬂow cytometry, Optical Coherence
Tomography (OCT), endoscopy, spectroscopy,
optical biosensors, food sorting, ﬂowcytometry and
molecular diagnostics.

Potential interest in R&D and Innovation
Cooperation
Applications of broadband mmWave RF and
integrated microwave photonics technology in
terrestrial and space. Diﬀerent types of products for
metrology applications such as: laser interferometry
(homodyne, heterodyne and multiwavelength
detection), optical coherence tomography (OCT)
and spectrometry. Integration and miniaturization
of photonic sensing for industrial, telecom and life
science applications in the hyper spectral region
from 400 nm – 2350 nm for optical metrology, to
measure distances, surfaces or motion. Application
of our PICs increases robustness, reliability and
compactness and may provide new methods of
measuring.

Our unique selling point
We provide customized solutions for OEM’s and
System Integrators, from design to fully assembled
modules, by vertical integration in scalable
production volumes. Our PIC modules and additional
competences can be used in a suite of applications
in Telecom/Datacom, Life Science, Metrology and
is oﬀered as well in our technology services. We
maintain our technology leadership in silicon nitride,
low-loss technology secured by a strong IP position.

LIVEU LTD
Year established
Number of employees
Website
Contact email

2007
200
www.liveu.com
baruch@liveu.com

Expertise in 5G

Expertise in R&D and Innovation

Using Multi-link (“bonding”) in 5G.

Algorithms, software, hardware (our own devices)
and RF development engineers and experts.

Member of 5G-Xcast H2020 project, a 5GPPP Phase
II project focused on Broadcast and Multicast
Communication Enablers For the Fifth Generation of
Wireless Systems. http://5g-xcast.eu/
Member of the Health^5G Celtic project
https://www.celticplus.eu/project-health5g/
Member of the 5G-IA Trials WG

Expertise in vertical sectors
Media, TV, broadcasting, online video,
Public safety, police and border protection
Connected car and autonomous cars
LiveU has been driving the live/real-time video
revolution, providing real time video and data
“bonding” multiple links over any IP-based
technology. LiveU enables broadcasters of all sizes
to acquire and share live video reliably on any
viewing platform – TV, social (Facebook etc), web,
OTT, proprietary etc. With over 2,000 customers in
80+ countries, LiveU’s technology is the solution of
choice for global broadcasters, online media, news
agencies and social media to cover breaking and
developing news and high-proﬁle events.

In video (including HEVC H.265), cellular, satellite,
wireless, cloud-based operation and other
disciplines.
Facility, well-equipped lab, and worldwide operation
over multitude of real life operators’ networks.

Potential interest in R&D and Innovation
Cooperation
Looking for cooperation in research and projects
in 5G multilink, converged networks, video/media
delivery.
Projects under future calls in H2020 and others, in
media, trials, public safety, health, connected cars
and smart transportation, secure cities etc.

Our unique selling point
Innovator, strong R&D, global presence in
professional media, daily work with cellular (and
any IP connectivity including WiFi and satellite) and
video.

Also serving the public safety and government
vertical for real time mobile surveillance, situational
awareness, search and rescue, disaster management,
telemedicine and others.
LiveU is involved in the Connected Car and
autonomous vehicle verticals, providing real time
video connectivity from the vehicle.

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SME Expertise and Skills
in the 5G Domain

MARTEL INNOVATE
Year established
Number of employees
Website
Contact email

Expertise in 5G
Martel is an innovative and dynamic SME specialized
in the management, innovation and promotion of
international Research and Innovation projects with
focus on Next Generation Internet technologies,
such as 5G, IoT and Cloud. It has been involved in
the 5G PPP initiative since its inception, with the
Euro-5G and now To-Euro-5G projects and it’s an
active member of the 5GIA, Networld2020, FIWARE
Foundation, BDV, AIOTI, IoT Forum, and NEM.
Martel Lab, the R&D department, is specialised in
virtualisation and orchestration of virtual resources,
including IoT functions and Virtual Network
Functions.

Expertise in vertical sectors
MARTEL is currently active in Manufacturing, Smart
Cities and Media verticals. MARTEL is leading the
development of Orchestra Cities: a collaborative
smart city platform through which cities and citizens
can share: data, sensors, standards and solutions.
MARTEL, as member of the FIWARE Foundation,
is developing a Zero Break-downs/Defect
Manufacturing solution, based on the ﬁrst open
source implementation of the Industrial Data Space
Architecture (IDS). Finally, MARTEL is involved in the
development of an integrated software platform
that provides a leap forward for media delivery over
a 5G-enabled programmable infrastructure.

1996
16
www.martel-innovate.com
info@martel-innovate.com

Potential interest in R&D and Innovation
Cooperation
We are particularly interested in bringing additional
innovations and integrating novel technologies to our
products in the verticals of Smart City and Industry
4.0. In particular, we are happy to explore behaviour
of our platforms when combined with 5G networks,
and to explore the deployments of both platforms
on top of innovative 5G infrastructures. Our interest
is in general on the convergence between IoT
management solutions and 5G and usage of microservices architectures in the context of 5G. We are
able as well to bring potential usage scenarios in
the context of automotive/transport (based on
ﬂeet management), smart cities (including 2 cities,
diﬀerent scenarios are possible) and industry 4.0
(manufacturing and logistic).

Our unique selling point
MARTEL oﬀers a comprehensive value driven
approach supporting all innovation life cycle stages
from ideas deﬁnition, funding, management,
prototyping and development, communication to
launch to market. Our international team of highly
skilled professionals oﬀer a unique combination
of business, technology and media services
competences.

Expertise in R&D and Innovation
Martel’s team has more than 20 years of experience
in R&D&I EC funded projects, with strong
connections with many key European and Global
(USA, China, Mexico, Brazil) ICT players. Martel Lab,
the R&D department, is specialized in cloud native
architectures, spanning from cloud computing
infrastructures based on Open Source solutions such
as OpenStack and Kubernetes, to cloud computing
as an enabler in the development of highly available,
scalable and resilient services for Big Data, Media,
Internet of Things, Virtual Network Functions and
Smart Cities.

MOLTOSENSO
Year established
Number of employees
Website
Contact email

2009
7
www.moltosenso.com
info@moltosenso.com

Expertise in 5G

Expertise in R&D and Innovation

moltosenso has developed a unique versatile
hardware/software platform, for fast and cost
eﬀective deployment of networked Smart Things.
moltosenso Plug&Play patented architecture has
already been awarded through a European SME
Instrument Phase 1 grant, recognized as one of the
most promising ICT disruptive innovation in the
Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) and Internet of
Things (IoT) landscapes.

moltosenso has a long experience in R&D projects,
since FP6, throughout H2020 and Regional/National
projects. moltosenso allocates high percentage of its
yearly revenue to new investments on R&D activities,
that span from new architectural ICT solutions, to
novel algorithms and services.

As ICT integrator, moltosenso owns expertise
regarding IoT system design into complex and
heterogeneous transmission environments (protocol
stack and medium choice, data rate, allowed latency,
system costs, energy consumption, data security,
etc.).
Owning its DPO (Data Protection Oﬃcer) team
and its own privacy experts, moltosenso develops
services and systems compliant to privacy issues by
design and by default, supporting partners of any
kind and consortiums to adhere to GDPR. 5G will
have to deal soon with requirements of millions of
IoT devices, privacy included, making moltosenso’s
compelling expertise essential.

Potential interest in R&D and Innovation
Cooperation
moltosenso, as both system integrator and data
analysis service provider, aims at expanding the
proﬁle and usage of its solutions worldwide, with
fruitful partnerships devoted to integration and
innovation.

Our unique selling point
Systematic approach to solve problems regarding
monitoring, data analysis, optimization and privacy
compliance, in challenging context, as 5G will be.

Expertise in vertical sectors
moltosenso has developed IoT systems, services and
expertise in the following vertical sectors:

•

health-care (an innovative diaper monitoring
solution, called DiapSense);

•

waste management (smart bins collection,
trucks route optimization, bins positioning
best planning, opportunistic bins internetworking through passing-by of trucks);

•

industrial processes monitoring (real time
transmission in harsh environment);

•

structural monitoring (Holy Shroud Chapel
vibration continuos monitoring and real
time data transmission).

SME Expertise and Skills
in the 5G Domain

MONTIMAGE
Year established
Number of employees
Website
Contact email

Expertise in 5G
Montimage specialises in the development of
techniques and tools for security and performance
analysis and management of 4G/5G SDN/NFV-based
networks using real-time monitoring techniques. It
provides Security as a Service and Software Deﬁned
Security and Monitoring solutions. Montimage’s
expertise covers the detection, prevention and
mitigation of cyber-security incidents in both the
data and control planes. Is security management
solution allows deploying and conﬁguring monitoring
agents to analyse network behaviour using DPI and
AI techniques.

Expertise in vertical sectors
Montimage’s solutions have been applied to
improve the resiliency and trustworthiness of
complex systems and adapted to diﬀerent domains,
including: automotive/transport, manufacturing/
industry, health, telecommunications, critical
infrastructures... Its solutions can be extended to
deal with proprietary protocols and analyse the
behaviour and business activities of the diﬀerent
sectors.

2004
12
www.montimage.com
contact@montimage.com

Potential interest in R&D and Innovation
Cooperation
Montimage is actively searching for new partnerships
and collaborations (research and innovation, joint
ventures, etc.). It can bring its technical knowhow
and tools as well as its experience in the participation
and management of projects in diﬀerent research
programs (H2020, ITEA3, CelticPlus…).

Our unique selling point
Montimage has deep knowledge of network
and application protocols and behaviour; and,
its products are completely build in-house. In
consequence, they are trustworthy, adaptable,
reliable, robust and can deal with high throughputs
and complex systems. Can rapidly provide proofs-ofconcepts adapted to speciﬁc needs.

Expertise in R&D and Innovation
Montimage participates in many collaborative
research projects that allow introducing innovative
techniques into its products. For instance:
SISSDEN H2020 project where it analyses darknet
and honeypot network traﬃc to detect low-intensity
attacks and evasion techniques.
SENDATE CelticPlus project where it deﬁnes and
implements new techniques for managing the
security of SDN/NFV-based networks.
ANASTACIA H2020 project where it implements new
solutions for IoT network security.

NEXTWORKS
Year established
Number of employees
Website
Contact email

Expertise in 5G

Expertise in R&D and Innovation

Nextworks has a long-term experience in 5G control
and orchestration technologies, built on top of a
solid know-how of ETSI NFV and MEC speciﬁcations
and architectures, and deep software hands-on
expertise with various NFV MANO tools (ETSI
OSM, OpenBaton, Open Source MANO, Tacker),
SDN controllers (OpenDaylight, ONOS), VIMs
(OpenStack), and MEC applications catalogue and
orchestrator. We have developed various solutions
for SDN-based control and orchestration of VNFs
and Network Services in 5G environments, both
proprietary and open-source. We also have strong
involvement in SDOs, particularly ETSI NFV and
MEC where we have been supporting Specialist task
forces and organization of Plugtests.

Nextworks is participating in several H2020 projects
on 5G (5G-Crosshaul and SELFNET from 5G PPP Phase
1, 5G-Transformer, SLICENET, 5GCity, 5G-MEDIA
and BlueSpace from 5G PPP Phase 2), coupled with
activities on 5G Verticals industries like IoT and
Factory of the Future in the SYMBIOTE, MONROE
and COMPOSITION projects. Quite often NXW
successfully covers roles of Technical Management,
WP and task leader for the activity items of speciﬁc
expertise.

Expertise in vertical sectors
Nextworks develops products in technology domains
that are closely related to four 5G verticals: Media,
Energy, FoF and Smart Cities.
The baseline product family is “Symphony”, a
modular Building Management System and digital
living platform which integrates home automation,
security,
multimedia
entertainment
and
communications. Nextworks is currently evolving its
Symphony middleware from a “home” platform into
a more platform for Smart Cities and Smart Factories,
deploying various virtualized functions distributed at
the smart facility, at the edge and in the cloud.

2002
45
www.nextworks.it
info@nextworks.it

Potential interest in R&D and Innovation
Cooperation
Nextworks always aims to carry out its R&D activities
in cooperation projects with key players (especially
operators, vendors and top industries in the targeted
Verticals) from diﬀerent countries. Our objective
is to build a stronger and better-focused technical
know-how, adequately complemented by a business
perspective.

Our unique selling point
Our mission is to provide cutting-edge solutions fully
tailored to our customers’ needs. Our current focus
is on 5G, Network Function Virtualization, Internet
of Things, Factories of the Future.
Our best R&D success stories. Our background
on 5G, NFV, MEC allowed us to sell Technical
Project Management services to Open Fiber and
lead the Project Management Oﬃce of the 5G
experimentation in Prato (Italy). We won contracts
with ETSI to lead two Specialist Task Forces, one for
NFV Gap Analysis with OpenStack APIs, the other for
MEC Testing Framework development. We also won
contracts for the execution and reporting of the 2nd
and 3rd NFV Plugtest at ETSI Headquarters.

SME Expertise and Skills
in the 5G Domain

SUCCESS STORIES
MOLTOSENSO
MONTIMAGE
Montimage has successfully deployed
its solution in the SoftFire platform
(Software Deﬁned Networks and
Network Function Virtualization
Testbed within FIRE+, www.softﬁre.
eu) to improve the security-awareness
of the operators. It has also started a
joint collaboration with Cumucore to
commercialise 4G/5G mobile solutions
in a box.

NOUVEAUCOMM
Design and Development of Remote
Server Monitoring System with IoT
gateway

moltosenso Plug&Play patented
IoT architecture has been awarded
with an European SME Instrument
Phase 1 grant, recognized as one of
the most promising ICT disruptive
innovation in the Wireless Sensor
Network and Internet of Things
landscapes.

NEXTWORKS
Our background on 5G, NFV, MEC
allowed us to sell Technical Project
Management services to Open Fiber
and lead the Project Management
Oﬃce of the 5G experimentation
in Prato (Italy). We won contracts
with ETSI to lead two Specialist Task
Forces, one for NFV Gap Analysis with
OpenStack APIs, the other for MEC
Testing Framework development. We
also won contracts for the execution
and reporting of the 2nd and 3rd NFV
Plugtest at ETSI Headquarters.

POWER-OPS
At its second year, Power Operations
made it to the ﬁnal quartet in the
EC Innovation Radar Prize 2017, in
the category of Industrial & Enabling
Tech, clearly placing Power Operations
among the four most prominent
companies in Europe for 2017 in this
category.

OPEN CELLS
OpenAirInterface is now quite
successful with memebers such as
Nokia, Cisco, Orange, Facebook, TCL
… and Open Cells is proud of counting
most of them as customers for our
services and products.

NOUVEAUCOMM
Year established
Number of employees
Website
Contact email

Expertise in 5G
We help companies to strategize ahead, in this era
of unprecedented fast changes in technology and
evolving customer requirements. We help you by
providing business analysis and follow through with
implementation. Our capabilities include End to End
Project life cycle and delivery System Architecture,
Software Development and Test Services.

Expertise in vertical sectors
Our modular architecture ensures that our systems
can be customized for application in various verticals
like Manufacturing Industry, Telecom Services
providers, Healthcare, Smart Cities, public safety
and tactical communication.

2014
6
www.nouveaucomm.com
navnit.goel@nouveaucomm.com

Potential interest in R&D and Innovation
Cooperation
We help customers to deﬁne 3-5 years roadmap, End
to End System Architecture, Software Development
and hardware design for manufacturability, System
Integration and Validation, Functional, performance,
Load & Stress Test, Regulatory Compliance
Certiﬁcation, Radio & Protocol conformance and
Test automation.

Our unique selling point
Our Modular design approach with roadmap for
future enhancements and cost eﬀective solutions.

Expertise in R&D and Innovation
Our team members having worked with MNCs like
Alcatel-Lucent and Bell labs have experience of
designing globally deployed 3G and 4G systems. We
provide innovative products and solutions in wireless
& ﬁxed line access, IP and cloud networking, NFV
and Software Deﬁned Networks.

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SME Expertise and Skills
in the 5G Domain

OPEN-CELLS
Year established
Number of employees
Website
Contact email

Expertise in 5G
We developed 4G SDR, as a member of
OpenAirInterface.
We created the idea of the OpenAirInterface Alliance
as a 5G enabler.
Our product is today mainly 4G SDR, nevertheless
the OAI community contributes and many 5G pieces
are available now.
Our OAI distribution oﬀers more stability and
propose a set of features to enable our customers to
make their own features.

2016
1
www.open-cells.com
contact@open-cells.com

Potential interest in R&D and Innovation
Cooperation
We are eager to participate to any project that
require a 4G/5G network.
We can provide the cellular network and the project
speciﬁc features inside.

Our unique selling point
Existing asset: whole 3GPP SDR system: HSS P+S-GW,
MME, eNB, UE, SIM cards, ...

Expertise in vertical sectors
We expect vertical sectors as our main customers, as
this market need a 4G and 5G operation network for
their testbeds.

Expertise in R&D and Innovation
We developed the performance critical pieces of
code in OpenAir: turbo codec. Compared to the
legacy OAI implementation (that was already using
SIMD instructions) we improved the performance by
more than x10 on this critical component. So, now
OAI eNB and UE can run on a decent PC in realtime.
Another of our major contribution to OAI is a
complete rafactory of the binary production system,
based now on cmake tool.
The company owner has been a researcher and
a research director in Bell Labs. His contributions
are in cellular network optimization and in eUICC
(embedded SIM).

POWER-OPS
Year established
Number of employees
Website
Contact email

2015
7
www.power-ops.com
artemis@power-ops.com

Expertise in 5G

Expertise in R&D and Innovation

Power Operations is an innovative startup delivering
specialized IT services for the energy sector under
energy eﬃciency and security contexts and has a long
experience in relevant R&D projects and initiatives.
In such framework, Power Operations exhibit
signiﬁcant expertise in cloud-based architectures
and platforms used under the 5G/SDN umbrella
including various cloud management frameworks
(e.g. Openstack, Kubernetes), ETSI NFV tools (ETSI
OSM, Openstack Tacker) and is currently designing
MEC-oriented VNFs to be used in the energy sector,
in the context of the 5G PPP Phase 2 project NRG-5.

Power Operations actively participate in 3 EC
R&D and Innovation projects pertaining to the
application of the Blockchains technology on the
energy domain, including 5G PPP Phase 3 project
NRG-5, H2020 DEFENDER and H2020 CATALYST.
Besides these projects, the members of Power
Operations have a long experience in R&D projects
in previous framework programmes as well as PPP
programmes (e.g. FI-PPP). It should be noted that
Power Operations was initially founded to exploit
the developments of its mother company (Synelixis
Solutions Ltd) from the FP7 DOLFIN and the FI-PPP
FINSENY and FI-PPP FINESCE projects.

Expertise in vertical sectors
The members of Power Operations have a longlasting experience in the development of products
targeting at the energy sector, particularly targeting
at energy eﬃciency strategies in the context of smart
cities, focusing on both industries and end-users.
The result of this expertise has been materialized
in the form of the PowerOps Platform, a business
framework allowing Utilities to use a domain speciﬁc
big data stack tailored for business intelligence on
smart energy grids. During the past year, Power
Operations has been evolving its platform to support
Blockchains technology, in an attempt to unlock the
potential of a lock-in free environment for end-users
and utilities.

Potential interest in R&D and Innovation
Cooperation
Power Operations considers cooperation in R&D
and Innovation activities as a perfect vehicle for
further extending its technology and expanding the
horizon of its members. Deﬁnitely specialized on
delivering Blockchain solutions for the energy sector,
relevant cooperation and coordination activities are
rigorously pursued, as are activities that fall close in
this context.

Our unique selling point
We have the knowledge, the expertise and the way
to make the energy sector a more secure and more
resilient and more open to new technologies and
opportunities.

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SME Expertise and Skills
in the 5G Domain

QUOBIS NETWORKS SL
Year established
Number of employees
Website
Contact email

Expertise in 5G
Quobis has strong expertise on UC solutions
based on SIP and WebRTC technologies like
testing and development of real time mediaspeciﬁc applications, development of multi-tenant
application environments which can be connected
to lower levels of 5G architecture, developments
of applications of Cortical Learning Algorithms to
communication networks and Smart Grid networks.

2006
38
www.quobis.com
yudani.riobo@quobis.com

Potential interest in R&D and Innovation
Cooperation

Quobis is currently taking part of one of the 5G-PPP
phase 2 projects: 5G TANGO.

Quobis has broad experience working on
international projects funded and not funded by
public agencies as is a key partner for some of the
larger network integrators and service providers
that see Quobis as the reference partner for projects
with special needs in UC. We are interested in
collaborating in ICT related H2020 calls providing our
R&D capabilities in cooperation with international
partners.

Expertise in vertical sectors

Our unique selling point

Quobis can provide expertise in business processes
communications (like multi-conferencing, image and
video sharing, data collection, emergencies support,
push notiﬁcations, easy adoption by elderly people,
call recording, video streaming, etc) for several
vertical sectors like media and entertainment,
automotive, smart cities or health.

Since its foundation, Quobis has accumulated
extensive experience in the implementation and
deployment of solutions based on core technologies
for corporations, service providers and telcos.
Quobis has gained extensive knowledge of mobile
networks, interconnection and WebRTC technology
from partnerships with the primary equipment
vendors, where it deployed end-to-end solutions,
for both transport and access networks.

Expertise in R&D and Innovation
Quobis has been involved in national and international
R&D projects related to voice and multimedia
technologies like RIC@S, AV2VISES, ICARUS (FP7SEC-2011-1), EMC2 (ARTEMIS-2013-1), reTHINK
(H2020-ICT5-2014), 5GTANGO (H2020-ICT-2016-2),
LEAN (CELTIC-2017), MUSIC (PENTA-2-2017), etc. In
addition, some tasks were also carried out in several
regional or national R&D projects regarding voice
interconnection, security and new services over
NGN networks like MEET, Sat2Car, 5iGO, etc.

REAL-WIRELESS
Year established
Number of employees
Website
Contact email

2007
15 + 30 Associates
www.real-wireless.com
simon.ﬂetcher@real-wireless.com

Expertise in 5G

Expertise in R&D and Innovation

Real Wireless has been at the forefront of Research
and Innovation in 5G. We a focus on the development
of techno-economic capabilities, infrastructure
investment viability, business model innovation and
Innovation Management. and Real Wireless has
participated in 5G-NORMA in 5G-PPP Phase1 and
now in leading Economic Analysis in 5G-MoNArch.
We have an extensive portfolio of analytic tools
based on proprietary modelling and simulation
capabilities that provides deep insight to our clients
when combined with the market leading expertise
of our advisors and consultants.

We have developed a highly capable tool (CAPisce)
through the 5G-NORMA and 5G-MoNArch projects.
This has required the development of complex traﬃc
demand simulation capability, which stimulate the
creation of a synthesised network build for complex
techno-economic scenario evaluation.

Expertise in vertical sectors
Ever since the creation of Real Wireless we have
been practicing in the venues and enterprise wireless
users segment. Our long standing experience gained
through working with one of key clients (Wembley
Stadium) has enabled us to develop a business
that not only provides strategic wireless advise
to venues but also transport systems. We have
advised private and government clients on their
investment strategies to develop their services
and through mechanisms such as slicing how their
service provider or tenant (virtual network operator)
models can evolve.

Potential interest in R&D and Innovation
Cooperation
We are seeking to extend our business in the
European market and beyond. We bring a
strong techno-economic and business modelling
expertise to projects and have established a strong
collaborative and consultative model that enables
us to rapid deploy, employing agile methods
and scenario analysis that enables project to
consolidate and establish proof points for the value
of innovations.

Our unique selling point
Deep practitioner experience through consulting
practices in the verticals as well as in the wireless
industry and emergent technologies. A unique
combination of deep knowledge enhanced by
proprietary AI oriented tooling.

26
SME Expertise and Skills
in the 5G Domain

RFSAT
Year established
Number of employees
Website
Contact email

2011 (UK) and 2018 (Ireland)
10
www.rfsat.com
general@rfsat.com

Expertise in 5G

Expertise in R&D and Innovation

RFSAT and its employees have been in the forefront
of mobile communications technology development
since over 20 years, starting with the ﬁrst 3G
basestation built in FP5 project back in 1999. Since
then it has contributed to developing successor
technologies constituting current 4G (LTE and
LTE+) and has been involved in developing core
technologies as well as value-added services for
the future 5G communications. Its main relevant
technical competencies relate to hardware eﬃcient
transceiver design and implementation, network
virtualisation, low-latency networking, network/
client-assisted positioning/localisation and securitysensitive services.

RFSAT considers research consultancy and
development as core business, actively taking part
in European and international funded research
projects since its incorporation. It has participated
in over six (6) projects as core partner and over ten
(10) as associated and/or as SME group member.
Funding programs include FP6, FP7, Horizon 2020
and COST Actions. It has been operating several
industrial consultancy contracts for both academia
and industries in UK and across Europe.

Expertise in vertical sectors

RSFAT is dedicated to extending its collaboration
portfolio and establishing working relationships both
through funded research & development activities
(e.g. Horizon 2020 or other programs) and industrial
consultancy, as well as non-funded research liaisons.
We also see an opportunity for possible commercial
exploitation of some of our technologies that have
been developed in past and ongoing projects, both
funded and self-funded.

Since over 8 years RFSAT has been focussing its
research and technological developments on
such vertical sectors as communication, e-Health,
environment, transportation, smart cities, smart
energy and utility grids and public safety including
crisis management. Services are generally focussed
on distributed sensing and control (involving
sparse Big Data management and IoT technologies)
over variety of communication and networking
transports for providing added value to mobile
users and geographically dispersed enterprises.
With its real-time technologies RFSAT has targeted
also media virtualisation, such as Mixed-Reality
Immersion, demonstrated for real-life e Health and
crisis management applications.

Potential interest in R&D and Innovation
Cooperation

Our unique selling point
RSFAT is a ﬂexible SME with expertise and
capabilities in a variety of technologies constituting
future communications with experience in diﬀerent
vertical sectors gained from past and ongoing
European funded projects. Its technologies are
diverse and seamlessly applicable across multiple
sectors. Examples include sensing & control as well
as Mixed-Reality technologies used successfully
in e-Health, Smart Grids and Security applications,
certainly with certain adaptations. RSFAT has proven
itself to quickly respond to dynamically changing
user needs and has always been in the forefront of
the technological progress on the global market.

SUCCESS STORIES
RFSAT
Mixed-Reality rehabilitation system
for stroke patients (FP7-StrokeBack)
integrated into mobile product from
MAYTEC. More details in:
www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319212920

REAL-WIRELESS
Within H2020 5G-NORMA the
leadership and delivery of a
comprehensive techno-economic
assessment of the architecture
innovations that will impact the
development of the industry for the
coming 10 to 15years.

Autonomous 3D surveillance, modelling
and analysis of large areas with realtime streaming for crisis management
application and integrated into C4I
using swarms of autonomous aerial
systems (FP7-AF3 project). More info at:
http://www.rfsat.com/index.php/en/
results/technologies/uav-wildﬁres.html

SENCEPTION
Senception has been awarded with the
“National Award for Digital Technology
2017/2018”, EBA and is competing to
become the European champion in the
same category.

SIKLU
Connect the Unconnected - A program
in Cleveland, U.S., that supports
140 households by bringing them
online, providing devices for each
household, and providing digital
literacy and job training. This program
extends the ﬁber-optic network that
connects Cleveland’s hospitals using a
millimeter-wave transmission system
from Siklu. This initiative brings
gigabyte-per-second connections to
the city’s public housing.

SME Expertise and Skills
in the 5G Domain

SENCEPTION

Expertise in 5G
Senception specializes in the development of
network contextualization solutions and services for
wireless and cellular networks. Our software-based
solutions assist communication and interaction via
the analysis of aspects such as proximity, similarity,
availability, or device’s centrality.
Our expertise in 5G is focused on cognitive resource
control and adaptation (context driven) as well as on
optimized forwarding and routing.

Expertise in vertical sectors
Senception’s context-driven communication core
engine PerSense (TM) is being applied in the vertical
markets of Smart Cities, e-Health, Public Safety
Communication.

Expertise in R&D and Innovation

Potential interest in R&D and Innovation
Cooperation
We are interested in international cooperations
in the context of H2020 in ICT-related ﬁelds, for
instance, networking research for 5G and beyond;
IoT. We are also interested in developing industrial
cooperations where our PerSense communication
and interaction core engine can be further applied.

Our unique selling point
Having been founded as a spin-oﬀ of a portuguese
research lab, Senception integrates the following
proposition values, essential to its market success:
technological innovation; user-friendliness; ubiquity;
low cost.
We are interested in exploring our products in the
context of R&D and therefore work by providing
open versions/light versions to our partners, or
within speciﬁc consortiums.

Born as a spin-oﬀ of a portuguese research lab,
Senception’s team has a wide experience in industrial
innovation and research and development.
Senception has been awarded with the “National
Award for Digital Technology 2017/2018”, EBA and
is competing to become the European champion in
the same category.
The latest R&D project developed by Senception was
H2020 UMOBILE project, where Senception lead the
Quality of Service work package, and where the use
of contextualization to improve delivery of messages
in emergency scenarios has been developed by
Senception.

SEVEN SOLUTIONS
Year established
Number of employees
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Expertise in 5G
Seven Solutions provides devices and technologies
capable of distributing time and frequency over
metro and long-haul 5G links in both back-haul and
front-haul:
-

Ultra-accurate Time and Frequency Transfer
(phase transfer using IEEE 1588 High-Accuracy
Proﬁle)

Reliable GNSS Timing and
Technologies (backup system)

High bandwidth & low latency Ethernet
communications

Deterministic data delivery based for TimeAware Applications

Positioning

In this framework, Seven Solutions develops custom
electronic designs, such as PCB boards (carriers,
FMCs, XMCs, ...), time and RF distribution equipment,
DSPs & SoC software and FPGA gateware.

Expertise in vertical sectors
Our expertise on Timing based on IEEE 1588 (PTP)
High Accuracy proﬁle (HA or the pre-standard
White-Rabbit) covers the following vertical sectors:
Financial (FinTech), Critical Infrastructures, Energy,
Smart City, Automotive and Factories of Future.
We have also expertise on adapting the timing for
Positioning based on ground antennas.

Expertise in R&D and Innovation
Seven Solutions has long expertise in R&D
projects for more than 10 years in international
funding programs (FP6, FP7, ARTEMIS, ECSEL …) in
several domains. RECOMP and EMC2, focused on
safety-critical applications/services for avionics,

2006
30
www.sevensols.com
jlgutierrez@sevensols.com

automotive, industry and IoT. CLONETS, focusing
on next generation needs for time and frequency
transfer over optical ﬁbres for cloud computing
and IoT. FitOptiVis, focusing on developing and
integrating smart solutions for cyber-physical
systems (architecture, high-performance and smart
devices). SINCRONET, developing ultra-accurate and
reliable synchronization timing devices for electrical
infrastructures and 5G.

Potential interest in R&D and Innovation
Cooperation
We are interested in collaborating in ICT-related
H2020 calls related to telecom, satellite services,
5G, IoT, smart cities and energy. Cooperation with
international partners from diﬀerent sectors to
setup pilots and PoCs.

Our unique selling point
Seven Solutions, worldwide leaders in the White
Rabbit (IEEE 1588 high-accuracy proﬁle) timing
technology. It is a private held leading company
in accurate sub-nanosecond time transfer and
frequency distribution for reliable industrial and
scientiﬁc applications. Our timing products have
been validated during the last 7 years and we oﬀer
currently the best interoperable, dependable and
ultra-accurate time transfer approach in the market
(nanosecond accuracy, deterministic, dependable
and scalable).
We are partners in 5G PPP IA and we also belong to
the Xilinx Alliance Program for the development and
deployment of new FPGA products.

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SME Expertise and Skills
in the 5G Domain

SIKLU
Year established
Number of employees
Website
Contact email

Expertise in 5G
Siklu is a provider of wireless connectivity solutions
based on mmwave technology. Siklu’s product
include both point-to-point link solutions with data
rates as high as 10Gbps for backhaul/fronthaul
applications and point-to-multi-point solutions that
may be used for broadband ﬁxed access applications
or small-cell backhaul applications. Siklu has building
blocks such as self designed RFIC and self designed
mmwave beam-steering antenna that can be used
to design mmwave remote radio heads compatible
with 5G standardization.

Expertise in vertical sectors
Siklu is currently active in several market segments
that require high reliability, low cost, Gigabit
throughput wireless solutions. These markets
include cellular backhaul (were Siklu typically
provides P2P mmwave links with throughput up
to 10Gbps), business connectivity (served mostly
by P2P mmwave technology), ﬁber-to-the-home
ﬁber extension (where Siklu provides P2MP access
equipment as well as rollout design support) and
smart/safe city connectivity (served mostly by P2MP
mmwave technology).

2008
75
www.siklu.com
yigal@siklu.com

Potential interest in R&D and Innovation
Cooperation
Siklu has been intensively involved in R&D and
innovation cooperation projects. It has participated
in FP-7 projects BunGee and IPHOBAC-NG, as well
as in H2020 projects RAPID and 5G-PHOS. Siklu is
also involved with other research consortia and
collaborates on research with partners from both
industry and academy. Siklu cooperation interests
include mmwave radio and antenna technology,
high-speed modem technology, mmwave beamsteering antennas, 5G RRH, mmwave/ﬁber
integration and any other ideas that my be exploited
in its target markets.

Our unique selling point
Siklu is a small company with a very broad span
of interests and capabilities, enabling it to pursue
innovation and execute it quickly and eﬃciently to
convert it from an idea to a selling product.

Expertise in R&D and Innovation
Although Siklu is a systems company, it has extensive
design capabilities. Siklu has designed by itself most
of the building blocks of its products. This includes
design of antennas (both passive and active beamsteering antennas), mmwave RFIC (at 60GHz,
70GHz and 80GHz), mmwave radio boards, Gigabit
throughput modem chip, layer-2 networking SW
stack, wireless network planning tools based on GIS
databases and also the full wireless product both in
point-to-point and point-to-multipoint topologies.

SPECTRUM INSIGHT LTD
Year established
Number of employees
Website
Contact email

Expertise in 5G
Participation in 5G forums on behalf of a satellite
company and providing consultancy on systems
aspects.
Familiarity with 3GPP standards up to and including
Release 15.
In conjunction with Tamum Consulting SARL (www.
tamum.com): Attendance at 3GPP meetings and
Training courses (Masters Degree level) in 5G/ IoT.

Expertise in vertical sectors
Satellite communications including solutions which
feature a terrestrial ground component.
IoT standards including NB-IoT and LTE-M for
application in a wide range of industries.
Smart Home/ Connected Home including Smart
metering.
Public safety related enhancements to LTE.

2009
2
www.spectrum-insight.com
keith@spectrum-insight.com

Potential interest in R&D and Innovation
Cooperation
Working with partners to assist working with, or
developing, 3GPP standards and product based on
these standards.
Of particular interest are:
1. Solutions to enhance coverage, including nonterrestrial technologies: reduce economic
barriers to providing coverage and improve
reliability of coverage.
2. Smart Cities - including energy and transportation
sectors (road, rail, air, etc,).

Our unique selling point
A combination of standards and R&D experience
provides partners a resource which oﬀers both
breadth and depth of expertise in wireless
technology from GSM to 3GPP Release 15.
Companies registered in France (SARL) and UK (LTD).

Expertise in R&D and Innovation
Spectrum Insight and Tamum staﬀ have extensive
R&D experience in GSM, UMTS, and LTE technology
and standards development.
Over 20 granted US patents, mainly in the ﬁeld of
wireless access technology.
Over 25 years of experience in spectrum aspects and
standards covering the Radio Access Network and
Core Network from the early days of GSM up to the
present day.

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SME Expertise and Skills
in the 5G Domain

SUITE5 DATA INTELLIGENCE
SOLUTIONS LIMITED
Year established
Number of employees
Website
Contact email

2017
12
www.suite5.eu
contact@suite5.eu

Expertise in 5G

Expertise in R&D and Innovation

Suite5 Data Intelligence Solutions works in the 5G
domain (MATILDA project, G.A. No. 761898) in the
area of execution policy models for applications
that run on top of SDNs, and in the area of Analytics
that are able to the behaviour of systems in 5G
ecosystems. Those two combined are in a position
assist decision making towards network placement,
deployment and reconﬁguration and could help to
generate new insights about 5G applications and
new policies for optimum utilisation of resources.

Suite5 is active in various R&D and Innovation
projects, aiming to match innovations coming out
of research activities to existing company oﬀerings,
towards attaching added value to its products and
services and commercializing research outputs. In
more detail, Suite5 participates in such activities as
a data analytics and intelligence provider, working
on machine learning, big data, data management
and data sharing, and insights generation, in various
verticals. The company participates in such attempts
in the 5G sector, as well as in other sectors such as
Manufacturing, Energy, Aviation and Cybersecurity.

Expertise in vertical sectors
Suite5 has worked in various verticals, with speciﬁc
focus in Manufacturing, Energy and public safety.
In all those verticals, Suite5 works with analytics
solutions that are able to provide descriptive
and prescriptive analytics, which are based both
on structured and unstructured data and are
coming out of hardware and software sensors. The
company’s solution “Suite5 Enterprise Analytics
Engine” is the core driver in these approaches. In
the manufacturing verticals, sensor data are based
on machines’ outputs, while in the Public Safety
domain emphasis is on wearable sensors and other
human generated data, and in the Energy sector on
Smart Home sensors.

Potential interest in R&D and Innovation
Cooperation
Suite5 is highly interested in joint ventures which
have R&D and Innovation interest in any vertical
which either works with data insights, or else
expect to be beneﬁted from the application of data
technologies on them, bringing data intelligence and
softwarisation features to both traditional as well as
cutting edge sectors.

Our unique selling point
Oﬀering a scalable and expandable platform, tailormade to customer business intelligence needs.

SYNELIXIS SOLUTIONS S.A.
Year established
Number of employees
Website
Contact email

Expertise in 5G

Expertise in R&D and Innovation

Synelixis is consortium member of the SONATA
and 5G TANGO projects in 5G PPP Phase 1 and
2, respectively. In these projects, Synelixis is
responsible for developing and integrating a
monitoring framework that fulﬁlls the requirements
to accommodate 5G network services under the
SDN/NFV paradigm. The implemented monitoring
framework deﬁnes an open-source, non-intrusive,
ﬂexible and modular mechanism able to follow
rapidly changing Network Functions and Services
and produce real-time and event-driven alerts at
diﬀerent customizable aggregation levels/rules.

Synelixis is a high-tech SME that provides complete
networking, security and control and automation
solutions. Synelixis technology superiority is a
result of extensive R&D activities in the areas of
Virtualization and Cloud Computing, HPC, IoT,
blockchains and inter-ledger technologies, Machine
Learning and Cyber Security. Synelixis has participated
and (technically) coordinated a signiﬁcant number
of multi-national projects and established long
living co-operations with well renowned companies
in EU and USA. Synelixis is member of NEM, NESSI,
FIWARE, AIOTI and ETP4HPC technology platforms
as well as the European 5G-PPP.

Expertise in vertical sectors
Synelixis is seeking for opportunities to promote the
company’s service portfolio via the 5G ecosystem,
including agriculture, smart city and media
streaming:
- SynField is Synelixis’ hardware/embedded
software/cloud/mobile app oﬀering for a rich
ﬂavor of agriculture and water management
services, such as crop disease prediction, smart
irrigation and well/water tanks monitoring and
control, tailored to diﬀerent crop, terrain and soil
characteristics and micro-climatic conditions.
- Cache-It! is Synelixis’ VNF caching solution, which
contributes to the 3GPP Dynamic Adaptive HTTP
Streaming (DASH) technology for the delivery of
premium 5G media streaming services. Cache-It!
empowers telecom operators with an innovative
distributed caching system to leverage the latest
advances in global business collaboration and
meet growing market demands.

2007
31
www.synelixis.com
info@synelixis.com

- SyMon is Synelixis’ novel monitoring framework
that satisﬁes the most demanding requirements
related to SDN/NFV-based service deployment
in public, private or hybrid cloud environments.
Compliant with international standards, e.g.
ETSI NFV MANO, SyMon provides real-time
data collection and alert notiﬁcations based
on preselected or user-deﬁned metrics for
monitoring the service performance during its
whole lifecycle.

Potential interest in R&D and Innovation
Cooperation
We are particularly interested in creating additional
innovation and integrating novel technologies to
our products in the areas of Critical Infrastructure
Communications (i.e. Energy, Water and eHealth),
Precision Agriculture and Smart City. We are looking
forward to expanding and integrating our products
with 5G networks and exploring the beneﬁts of 5G
network service ﬂexibility. We are also able to bring
potential use case scenarios and end users in the
areas of smart farming and critical communications,
including links with hospitals/clinics and water
management entities.

Our unique selling point
With more than 120 installations of our SynField
solution in 7 countries, Synelixis is an HPE Technology
Ready Partner for Smart Irrigation oﬀerings
worldwide. Combining our knowhow, capacity and
expertise to design and develop professional, timecritical solutions in cross-vertical scenarios (i.e.
energy, water management, smart irrigation, food
traceability, assisted living, health), we are able to
contribute in bringing 5G SDN/VNF technology from
lab to the market.

SME Expertise and Skills
in the 5G Domain

TREELOGIC
Year established
Number of employees
Website
Contact email

1996
140
www.treelogic.com
info@treelogic.com

Expertise in 5G

Expertise in R&D and Innovation

Treelogic helps optimizing processes and business
operations in several sectors using advanced ICT
solutions focused on Artiﬁcial Intelligence & Big
Data, integrating emerging technologies as part
of the Smart Data ecosystem. In particular in 5G,
TREELOGIC is active in accompanying industrial
partners such as telecommunication operators in
their digital transformation, contributing with our
knowledge in advanced AI and Big Data technologies.
Framework In addition to that, Artiﬁcial Intelligencebased solutions for cybersecurity in the 5G telco
infrastructure are also oﬀered by the company.

TREELOGIC actively participate in the deﬁnition
and development of international R&D projects.
Involved in more than 20 European projects, we
perform strongly in terms of participation and
leadership in the European R&D programme Horizon
2020. Our R&D activity provides us with knowledge
and diﬀerential capabilities, based on advanced
technologies with great future potential and aligned
with world priorities in matters of innovation,
allowing us to develop competitive advantages.

Expertise in vertical sectors
TREELOGIC operates in several vertical sectors,
such as Telecommunications, Health, Transport,
Finance, Insurance, Industry, Public Safety, Security,
or Astrophysics, to name a few. We accompany
industrial partners such as telecommunication
operators, ﬁnancial entities and insurance companies
in their digital transformation, contributing with
our knowledge in advanced technologies such as
Big Data, Data Science and Computer Vision; we
collaborate with experts from various clinical areas in
healthcare research to apply the latest technologies
(more than 175 hospitals and health centres work
with our solutions); we develop smart transport
systems, staﬀ and vehicle tracking and technologies
related to mobility and security.

Potential interest in R&D and Innovation
Cooperation
TREELOGIC is very active in cooperative R&D
initiatives, both publicly and privately funded. In
example, we are very active in EU-funded R&D
projects, especially under Horizon 2020 programme
in diﬀerent areas. We are open and interested to
collaboration in R&D wherever our expertise can
add value. Our core activity is in the area of Artiﬁcial
Intelligence and Big Data, so we are interested to
collaborate with partners and initiatives demanding
these competencies.

Our unique selling point
Treelogic helps optimizing processes and business
operations in several sectors using advanced ICT
solutions focused on Artiﬁcial Intelligence & Big
Data, integrating emerging technologies as part of
the Smart Data ecosystem.

TST-SISTEMAS
Year established
Number of employees
Website
Contact email

2007
20
www.tst-sistemas.es
amedela@tst-sistemas.es
asanz@tst-sistemas.es

Expertise in 5G

Expertise in R&D and Innovation

TST participated in the Flex5Gware project (http://
www.ﬂex5gware.eu/),focused on ﬂexible and
eﬃcient HW and SW platforms for 5G network
elements and devices, addressing increased
capacity, reduced energy footprint, as well as
scalability, modularity and reconﬁgurability.
Research was demonstrated on proof-of-concept
implementations. TST participated on a PoC for
testing the reconﬁguration of the radio behaviour
according to diﬀerent optimization criteria, allowing
for instance multi-cell dynamic resource allocations
and switching across diﬀerent radio access
technologies according to the link quality.

TST has a broad experience in both national and
international R&D projects, it has been involved in
14 EU-funded research projects related to IoT, smart
services and future networks (4 ICT-FP7, 2 ICT-CIP, 3
ICT-H2020, 3 ECSEL, 2 CELTIC). Its research activity
has been recognized by the Spanish Ministry of
Economy and Competitiveness, which awarded TST
the oﬃcial “Innovative SME” seal.

Expertise in vertical sectors
TST provides IoT custom solutions on the smart
cities, manufacturing/industry and precision farming
domains. Among the projects carried out in this Smart
City context, it’s worth highlighting environmental
sensing, and ultrasonic sensors for urban waste
management. Related to industry domain, TST oﬀer
smart solutions to automate operational processes.
And we can mention our IoT crop sensing solution
combined with weather station to control the water
supply, related to precision farming domain.

Among the main skills and technical background
of TST appears the use of advanced technologies
to support the IoT concept: low-power hardware
design, security features, cloud integration, and
wireless communication technologies.

Potential interest in R&D and Innovation
Cooperation
TST looks forward to continue working with other
potential partners in R&D and innovation activities,
oﬀering its experience in IoT hardware design and
development, smart sensing and system integration.

Our unique selling point
TST is an experienced IoT solutions provider, counting
on production, testing and validation facilities
(including anechoic chamber for antenna design),
and able to optimize manufacturing processes
to oﬀer very competitive prices. TST products
are always based on cutting-edge technologies
supported by the strong involvement on innovation
activities.

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SME Expertise and Skills
in the 5G Domain

UBITECH
Year established
Number of employees
Website
Contact email

Expertise in 5G
UBITECH is active in a series of 5G PPP projects,
focusing mainly on the design and development
of software development kits and intelligent
orchestration mechanisms for network applications
and services. UBITECH is the technical coordinator
of the MATILDA H2020 5G PPP project targeting
at the provision of a novel holistic framework for
enabling vertical industries to take advantage of a
5G ecosystem. Application and network services
orchestration mechanisms, taking into account the
separation of concerns among vertical application
orchestrators and NFV orchestrators, as well as
end to end slice instantiation and management
mechanisms are considered.

Expertise in vertical sectors
UBITECH has acquired expertise towards the design
and development of cloud-native applications and
network functions that can be applicable to various
industry verticals. Focus is given on security, voice
communications and energy aspects.

Expertise in R&D and Innovation
UBITECH has intense R&D activities with regards to
the design of intelligent orchestration mechanisms
(e.g. rules-based policy management framework for
NFVOs as well as vertical application orchestrators,
optimisation engine for optimal placement of
network applications and services, big data analytics
techniques for network management and security),
the design and implementation of OSS northbound
APIs towards vertical application orchestrators as

2005
25
www.ubitech.eu
azafeiropoulos@ubitech.eu

well as the design and development of software
development and veriﬁcation toolkits for 5G-ready
applications. Innovation potential mainly stems
from the interconnection of vertical application
orchestrators with telecom operators’ network
management systems.

Potential interest in R&D and Innovation
Cooperation
UBITECH is highly interested in establishing R&D
and Innovation cooperations in the framework
of research and development projects regarding
the evolution of intelligent orchestration and slice
management mechanisms, as well as collaborations
with telecom operators and vendors towards the
design of OSS-oriented functions and APIs, as well
as the development of virtual network functions and
network services.

Our unique selling point
Inject intelligence in network services and
applications orchestration, while in parallel
supporting separation of concerns among
application/services and telecom infrastructure
providers.

UBIWHERE
Year established
Number of employees
Website
Contact email

2007
50
www.ubiwhere.com
info@ubiwhere.com

Expertise in 5G

Expertise in R&D and Innovation

Since its foundation in 2007, Ubiwhere has been
focusing its research and commercial activities in the
telecommunications sector. To ensure the roll-out of
5G in the coming years, Ubiwhere has been actively
participating in H2020 projects, developing new
products included in its commercial portfolio while
strongly involved in standardization bodies and EU
initiatives. With an expertise ranging from the LTE
core to MANO of 5G networks along with security
and monitoring implications, Ubiwhere can provide
valid inputs in all stages of a large 5G project, from
the initial design to the exploitation of the results
and potential standardization.

So far, Ubiwhere has participated in diﬀerent H2020
projects such as EMBERS, symbIoTe, SmartSDK,
SynchroniCity, SHIELD and QPARK, including also the
5G PPP’s SONATA, SELFNET and 5GCity. Furthermore,
Ubiwhere has also participated in many H2020
projects Open Calls, using their research activities to
develop innovative commercial solutions. Ubiwhere
is a Full Member of ETS and recently trusted
to develop the SDO’s MEC (Multi-access Edge
Computing) Testing Framework.

Expertise in vertical sectors
Ubiwhere is a reference in the Smart Cities sector,
having already deployed diﬀerent vertical solutions
(smart parking, traﬃc, waste management and air
quality monitoring) in America, Europe and South
Africa, through its Citibrain brand. Ubiwhere is also
bringing to the market neutral hosting technology
allowing some of the envisioned 5G use cases to
surface. In this context, with Unicle, Ubiwhere is
developing CCAM (Cooperative, Connected and
Automated Mobility) services, by working closely
with Automotive Industry and Mobile Network
Operators to better align this development,
accelerating 5G adoption in the V2X domain and,
thus, fostering new valuable business opportunities.

Potential interest in R&D and Innovation
Cooperation
Ubiwhere is always actively searching for
both R&I partnerships and commercial joint
ventures. The company’s team includes diﬀerent
Telecommunications Engineers proﬁles and Software
Developers expertises, which is a valuable asset for
the rapidly growing 5G ecosystem. Ubiwhere believes
highly innovative and commercially competitive
solutions can be developed in conjunction with
other like-minded partners from industry.

Our unique selling point
Ubiwhere positions itself as both 5G enabler (by
developing solutions supporting the 5G ecosystem)
and 5G vertical service provider (by providing services
beneﬁtting from the 5G KPIs and infrastructure).

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SME Expertise and Skills
in the 5G Domain

VERTICAL M2M
Year established
Number of employees
Website
Contact email

2008
10
www.vertical-m2m.com
networld@vertical-m2m.com

Expertise in 5G

Expertise in R&D and Innovation

Vertical M2M has a strong expertise in telecom
software and PaaS architectures, and advanced skills
in telecommunications, supporting many diﬀerent
telecom protocols through an agnostic approach.

As a telecom software vendor dedicated to IoT, we
invest a wide part of our resources in R&D and we
have been involved in several collaborative R&D
projects supported either by the French ministry
of research (FUI projects) or the French public
investment bank (BPI) or the European Commission
(H2020 5G-PPP projects).

With a 10+ year - experience in IoT, we also bring a
complete framework and sets of tools for secured
IoT applications over 5G networks.

Expertise in vertical sectors
Vertical M2M has so far deployed many IoT projects,
with a particular focus on the following markets
through mostly white-label solutions:
- energy: smarthome, renewable energy
monitoring solutions for Utilities and ESCO
(Energy Service Companies) & building energy
monitoring
- smartcities: smartmetering solutions,
streetlighting services, building management,…
- manufacturing/industry: predictive maintenance
solutions, process monitoring and smartfactory,
putting together combinations of heterogeneous
secured IoT systems

Potential interest in R&D and Innovation
Cooperation
We are particularly interested in any collaborative
research related to IoT over 5G networks (massive
IoT, mission critical IoT, vertical IoT or Edge Cloud
IoT) and bring contributions either at the IaaS or the
PaaS levels.
We also have a strong interest in 5G applications
for the energy, smartcity or industry/smartfactory
areas and are eager to be part of PoCs or large-scale
experiments applied to these markets.

Our unique selling point
With CommonSense IoT Platform, we dramatically
ease secured deployment of IoT solutions from the
IoT node up to the IoT application with a standardized
and open platform that can immediately connect
and manage 5G and non-5G IoT devices and help
design complete applications as well.

VISIONA INGENIERÍA DE PROYECTOS S.L.
Year established
Number of employees
Website
Contact email

2006
8
www.visiona-ip.es
nsanchez@visiona-ip.es

Expertise in 5G

Expertise in R&D and Innovation

VISIONA is a cutting-edge Information Technology
SME that has actively participated in several
open calls from the research and innovation EU
programmes, like the H2020 5G-PPP Phase-1
5G-Crosshaul and Phase-2 NRG5 projects. VISIONA
team counts on with expertise in designing big
systems and managing projects of big magnitude,
in designing network elements and network
services for NFV and SDN, planning and operation
of networks based on these technologies. Strong
background in virtualization of functions that lead to
5G-ready innovative and smart environments.

VISIONA core team is composed of PhD senior
researchers and Professors in the ﬁeld of Technology
and Communications Systems with outstanding
experience on system design and application
development in collaboration with national and
international companies in several R&D public and
private funding meaningful projects. Furthermore,
VISIONA was awarded with the Innovative SME
Certiﬁcation by Spanish Ministry of Economy,
Industry and Competitiveness in September 2016.

Expertise in vertical sectors
VISIONA is specialized in groundbreaking media
technologies, from production and postproduction
systems, coding, transmission, etc. to those designed
for the ﬁnal user, including broadcast solutions,
video processing, media analytics, coding, mobile
live streaming and hyper-personalization. This
makes of VISIONA a suitable partner for any vertical
demanding such expertise (from entertainment to
smart cities and energy related contexts, among
other).

Potential interest in R&D and Innovation
Cooperation
VISIONA is seeking EU partners interested in
collaborating with our SME to identify synergies
so that we could work together on the creation
of innovative solutions and the design strategies
for exploitation of cooperation results in order to
achieve maximum impact of 5G-related technologies
after experimentation.

Our unique selling point
Spanish SME spin-oﬀ of the research group in
Technical University of Madrid that has been leading
progresses on multimedia for more than 15 years.

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SME Expertise and Skills
in the 5G Domain

WEST AQUILA
Year established
Number of employees
Website
Contact email

2004
15
www.westaquila.com
info@westaquila.com

Expertise in 5G

Expertise in R&D and Innovation

The company has already gained a decade-long
experience by participating as a key technological
partner in several national and European
projects, with particular emphasis on integration
of heterogeneous wireless interfaces and IoT.
Furthermore, the company is located in one of the
ﬁve Italian cities selected by the Italian Ministry of
Economic Development for pre-commercial 5G trials.
It is now surrounded by a 5G eco-system composed
of network operators, chip makers, telecom
manufacturers and vertical sector integrators that
refer to healthcare, mobility, energy, safety and
emergency management.

The background of the company relies upon
system design methodologies, wireless networked
embedded systems and heterogeneous distributed
networks. The co-founders have brought into the
company the experience gained within several
European-funded projects and through long-lasting
R&D collaborations with many companies. The
main expertise of WEST lies in the development of
innovative solutions and technologies for networked
embedded systems and massive IoT, which
encompass the development of large-scale system
level simulators and network testbeds.

Expertise in vertical sectors
In the recent past, WEST has participated in
several EU projects, including an ITN Marie Curie
project (Greenet) focused on the analysis, design,
and optimisation of energy eﬃcient wireless
communication systems and networks, and two
IAPP Marie Curie projects, WSN4QoL (a healthcareoriented project proposing Wireless Sensor
Networks for Quality of Life) and SmartNRG (dealing
with new solutions for energy distribution and
management for smart cities).
WEST has also participated to a national project on
Structural Health Monitoring, where a WSN is used
to monitor historical buildings after the earthquake
of 2009 in L’Aquila, and UbiCare and CASA+, two
projects aimed at remote monitoring aged people
and patients who have Down syndrome.

Potential interest in R&D and Innovation
Cooperation
WEST is a highly dynamic and innovative company,
which aims at bridging the gap between the
academic and industry sectors. In this perspective,
the company envisions the possibility to exploit
cutting-edge technologies in multiple application
domains. As an R&D company, there is always
a strong interest in fostering new cooperation s
devoted to study, analyse and prototype solutions
in the ﬁeld of networked embedded systems and
cyber-physical systems.

Our unique selling point
WEST main ability lies in the design, development
and prototyping of novel solutions, also for proofsof-concept. In all the projects developed so far,
WEST has exploited his consistent R&D background
in successfully developing and testing several HW/
SW platforms for wireless embedded systems, along
with on-ﬁeld optimisation of several algorithms and
conﬁgurations. WEST is inherently open to new
opportunities for collaborations with interested
partners, from both academia and industry sectors.

WINGS ICT SOLUTIONS
Year established
Number of employees
Website
Contact email

2012
70
www.wings-ict-solutions.eu
info@wings-ict-solutions.eu
ktsagk@wings-ict-solutions.eu
kritikou@wings-ict-solutions.eu

Expertise in 5G

Expertise in R&D and Innovation

WINGS’ portfolio of expertise includes (but is
not limited to) the following 5G related domains:
Smart Wireless Access (5G, 4G, wireless network
management), Internet of Things (IoT), Software
Deﬁned Networks (SDN)/ Network Function
Virtualization (NFV), Artiﬁcial Intelligence (AI) &
Big Data Analytics (enhanced algorithms for new
applications), Security/Cybersecurity.

WINGS members have more than 20 years’
experience in Research and Innovation activities
and projects. WINGS’ portfolio of expertise in R&D
and Innovation includes projects in 5G (currently
H2020/One5G, H2020-EU-Taiwan/Clear5G, H2020/
Speed5G, as well as completed projects H2020/
Flex5Gware, H2020/Fantastic5G etc). Moreover, the
company is involved in R&D projects in Verticals such
as food safety & security (H2020/Impaqt and H2020/
PhasmaFOOD), transportation (H2020/MyCorridor
and nationally funded project netPARK), as well as
projects in Big Data and Artiﬁcial Intelligence (i.e.
projects H2020/PROTEUS, H2020 EU-Japan/iKaaS
etc).

Expertise in vertical sectors
WINGS’ expertise in vertical sectors includes:
water, energy, smart cities, food safety, health,
transportation, ﬁnance. More speciﬁcally, WINGS
develops, in the context of the WINGS “Artiﬁcial
intelligence & Internet of Things powered platform/
solution for verticals”, the solutions for (i) water
management (Cataract - proactive management
platform for smart connected water), which is
already being piloted in Nothern Greece, (ii) assisted
living - smart cities, smart home and health (Starlit
- cloud based iot smart living platform), (iii) health
(Migrainenet), (iv) energy (solution EnergyWater)
and (v) ﬁntech (platform Incelligent - as a spin-out
company).

Potential interest in R&D and Innovation
Cooperation
WINGS is interested in international cooperation
in the areas of 5G and Verticals (water, energy,
smart cities, food safety, health, transportation,
ﬁnance). WINGS is also open to new proposals for
collaboration in new areas in the verticals sector.
Such cooperations will be supported by the company
members’ long expertise in international Research
and Development projects.

Our unique selling point
Our combination of domain knowledge in various
verticals (water, assisted living, health, food safety,
transportation, energy, ﬁntech), with technology
areas (5G, IoT, SDN/NFV, AI & Big Data, Security/
Cybersecurity)

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SME Expertise and Skills
in the 5G Domain

SUCCESS STORIES
UBITECH
UBITECH’s expertise and ongoing
activities towards the design
and development of intelligent
orchestration mechanisms has
led to the implementation and
continuous evolution of the MAESTRO
Orchestrator. MAESTRO is mainly
focusing on interconnecting vertical
applications orchestration with
network services orchestration based
on the instantiation and management
of application-aware network slices.

UBIWHERE
Ubiwhere is a key partner of a
Portuguese Joint Venture called
Smartlamppost, whose acquired
knowledge and 5G expertise is
allowing infrastructure owners to
beneﬁt from the neutral host approach
to monetize on their investment
while providing MNOs a scalable and
cost-eﬀective-eﬀective 5G network
deployments.

WINGS ICT SOLUTIONS
Our current best success story is the
Cataract platform, an innovative water
management platform for addressing
in a holistic way key water-related
cases. Currently, Cataract is piloted in
Northern Greece in a Smart University
campus, in collaboration with the big
Greek mobile operator COSMOTE,
member of Deutsche Telekom
Group, providing NB-IoT based Smart
Connected Water Solution for Water
Quality Management, as well as in the
Athens area.

This material has been designed
and printed with support from
the To-Euro-5G project and the
NetWorld2020 SME Working
Group. The To-Euro-5G Project
has received funding by the
European Commission’s Horizon
2020 Programme under the grant
agreement number: 761338.
The European Commission support
for the production of this publication
does not constitute endorsement
of the contents which reﬂects the
views only of the authors, and
the Commission cannot be held
responsible for any use which may be
made of the information contained
therein.
The NetWorld2020 SME Working
Group and the NetWorld2020
European Technology Platform
cannot be held responsible for the
information provided by the SMEs
and for the quality of their potential
contribution.

More information at

www.networld2020.eu/sme-support

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of the European Union

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