Research and Development

Turn Research into Real-World Impact - We partner with universities and research institutes to co-develop deployable solutions across energy, waste, civil engineering, and IT application technologies.

Key challenges

  • Great ideas stall between lab prototypes and field deployment

  • Fragmented stakeholders (academia, government, vendors) slow decision-making

  • Unclear IP frameworks and data-sharing rules hinder collaboration

  • Limited access to real-world datasets, testbeds, and user feedback loops

  • Hardware/firmware and software stacks that don’t interoperate or scale

  • Compliance, safety, and certification requirements add late surprises

  • Funding cycles and KPIs misaligned with time-to-impact

Our solutions

  • Co-creation programs with clear IP & data governance (joint foreground/background IP, publication windows).

  • Applied prototyping: electronics, sensors, edge/firmware, mobile apps, and cloud analytics on a common stack.

  • Field pilots with municipalities and enterprises; plan-vs-fact KPIs and rapid iteration.

  • Open, standards-based interfaces (APIs, data schemas) to integrate lab outputs into operational systems.

  • Compliance-by-design: cybersecurity, privacy, safety, HACCP/IFS/BRC where relevant; certification planning.

  • Funding support: proposal co-writing, budget modeling, and impact reporting.

Applied Research & Prototyping

  • Focus areas: Energy systems, digital waste, civil engineering tech, and IT/IoT applications

  • Capabilities: Sensor & device design, firmware/edge AI, data pipelines, ML models, UX for field apps, simulation & digital twins, LCA/sustainability analysis

  • Outputs: Lab prototypes, reference architectures, datasets, and reproducible experiments

Pilot, Scale-Up & Knowledge Transfer

  • Focus areas: Real-world pilots with cities/utilities/enterprises; user training and change management

  • Capabilities: Pilot orchestration, KPI dashboards, security & compliance validation, interoperability, cloud deployment, and handover to operations

  • Outputs: Pilot reports, certification pathways, open APIs, documentation, and repeatable rollout playbooks

Your benefits

  • Faster time-to-market: Compress the journey from concept to field deployment

  • Lower risk & cost: Share resources, use proven stacks, and validate early with real users

  • Actionable IP & datasets: Co-owned, commercially usable outcomes—not just papers

  • Interoperability from day one: Standards-based interfaces for smooth integration

  • Credibility & funding leverage: Joint publications, demonstrators, and measurable impact

  • Capacity building: Upskilled teams, documented methods, and repeatable playbooks