ALTUS LSA COMMERCIAL AND MANUFACTURING PRIVATE SECURITY SERVICE COMPANY SOCIETE ANOMYME SA

Their core work

ALTUS LSA is a Greek technology SME specializing in the development and operation of autonomous unmanned vehicles for maritime environments, with particular expertise in hydrogen fuel cell propulsion systems for long-endurance underwater and surface operations. Their core work involves designing AUVs and unmanned surface vessels capable of seabed mapping, offshore infrastructure inspection, and autonomous docking — tasks that typically require extended deployment without human intervention. Beyond maritime platforms, they have expanded into airborne data collection systems, working within resilient multi-vehicle architectures that integrate drones and autonomous ground or air vehicles. Despite their registered name suggesting a security services background, their H2020 activity positions them firmly as a technical developer of autonomous platforms for inspection, surveillance, and data collection in challenging environments.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

ALTUS entered H2020 with a tightly focused maritime autonomy agenda — their 2018 project ENDURUNS was entirely about underwater and surface vehicles, hydrogen propulsion, and subsea inspection, indicating pre-existing deep expertise in ocean-going autonomous systems. By 2020, their second project ADACORSA shifted domain entirely to airborne platforms and resilient multi-vehicle data architectures, suggesting a deliberate expansion from sea to sky. The trajectory points toward a broader autonomous systems integrator identity rather than a narrow maritime niche, with hydrogen propulsion remaining a potential differentiator across both domains.

ALTUS is moving from domain-specific maritime AUV development toward cross-domain autonomous platform integration, making them an increasingly relevant partner for any project combining unmanned vehicles, inspection, and resilient communications across sea, air, or land environments.

How they like to work

ALTUS has demonstrated both coordination and participation capacity within a small two-project portfolio — they led the technically demanding ENDURUNS project as coordinator, assembling a consortium of 67 partners across 18 countries, which signals genuine project management and consortium-building experience. As a participant in ADACORSA they operated as a specialist contributor in a larger multi-partner architecture. Their willingness to lead complex RIA projects as an SME suggests an assertive, technically confident organization rather than a passive subcontractor.

ALTUS has built a notably broad network for an SME with only two projects — 67 unique consortium partners spanning 18 countries, suggesting they coordinated a large, geographically distributed consortium in ENDURUNS. Their reach is firmly pan-European with no indication of a narrow geographic bias.

What sets them apart

ALTUS occupies a rare niche as a small Greek private company that has successfully coordinated a multi-million euro RIA project in advanced maritime autonomous systems — a domain typically dominated by large research institutes or defense primes. Their combination of hydrogen fuel cell propulsion expertise with AUV platform engineering is technically distinctive, and their base in Crete (near major Mediterranean maritime routes and offshore energy activity) gives them practical relevance for inspection and monitoring use cases in Southern European waters. For consortium builders, they offer both technical depth in unmanned maritime systems and proven ability to manage large, multi-country partnerships.

Highlights from their portfolio

• ENDURUNS
  Coordinated by ALTUS as lead SME, this 5-year RIA project combined hydrogen fuel cell energy systems with long-endurance AUV glider technology for offshore seabed inspection — an unusual technical combination that secured €750K for a single small company.
• ADACORSA
  ALTUS's participation in this airborne data collection project signals a strategic expansion into drone and resilient architecture domains beyond their maritime roots, broadening their autonomous systems portfolio.