ABO DATA SRL

Their core work

ABO DATA SRL is an Italian SME specializing in data-driven monitoring and management software, with demonstrated expertise in building energy management systems (BMS) and IoT-based remote sensing. In the HIT2GAP project, they contributed data mining, user modeling, and energy performance analytics to help building operators close the gap between designed and actual energy consumption. They also ventured into agricultural technology through GIDROM, where they coordinated the development of a drone-based crop monitoring system for early detection of plant disease and pests. Their work sits at the intersection of sensor data, predictive modeling, and operational decision support.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

All available H2020 data for ABO DATA SRL comes from a single year (2015), so there is no meaningful temporal evolution to analyze — both projects launched simultaneously rather than sequentially. Their keyword profile is entirely shaped by HIT2GAP: intelligent buildings, BMS, data mining, energy savings, and facility management. GIDROM runs in parallel and carries no indexed keywords, leaving a genuine gap in understanding how the agricultural thread developed. Any claim of strategic shift would be speculation beyond what the data supports.

With only two concurrent 2015 projects and no later H2020 activity, the direction is unclear — a prospective partner should verify whether the company continued in building analytics, pivoted to agri-tech, or exited EU-funded R&D after this period.

How they like to work

ABO DATA has acted both as coordinator (GIDROM, a lean two-year SME Phase 1 grant) and as a technical partner in a large Innovation Action (HIT2GAP, 26 consortium partners across 10 countries). This suggests flexibility in role — capable of driving a focused feasibility study independently while also contributing specialist data and modeling capacity inside a large multi-partner consortium. Their participation in HIT2GAP alongside 26 partners indicates comfort in distributed, international R&D teams.

ABO DATA has worked with 26 unique consortium partners spanning 10 countries, almost entirely through the large HIT2GAP project. Their network is broad by number of countries but thin in depth — two projects offer limited evidence of repeated or preferential partnerships.

What sets them apart

ABO DATA occupies an unusual niche for a micro-SME: they bridge building energy management software and drone-based agricultural sensing — two domains that rarely overlap. Their involvement in HIT2GAP, one of the larger H2020 building-performance projects, suggests they were trusted to deliver data analytics at scale within a competitive consortium. For a partner seeking a lean Italian SME with hands-on experience in both BMS data pipelines and remote monitoring feasibility work, ABO DATA is an uncommon fit.

Highlights from their portfolio

• HIT2GAP
  Their largest project by far (EUR 210,668 EC contribution), a four-year Innovation Action targeting the building energy performance gap, placing ABO DATA inside a 26-partner European consortium focused on intelligent BMS and data-driven facility management.
• GIDROM
  ABO DATA served as coordinator — unusual for a small IT firm — on an SME Phase 1 feasibility study for drone-based crop disease detection, demonstrating initiative to lead an agri-tech concept beyond their core software domain.