DEVICE GATEWAY SA

Their core work

Device Gateway is a Swiss technology company based in Lausanne that develops software and middleware for connecting, managing, and testing IoT devices across heterogeneous networks. Their work sits at the intersection of device interoperability, network infrastructure, and security — building the "plumbing" that lets smart devices from different vendors and standards actually talk to each other. In H2020 they contributed to interoperability testing platforms, 5G network slicing experiments, and security frameworks for cyber-physical systems. They are the kind of technical partner a consortium brings in when the challenge is making diverse connected systems behave reliably together.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Their H2020 trajectory moves from pure interoperability/testing infrastructure (F-Interop, 2015) into broader network architecture (5G slicing, 2016) and then into security and trust for connected systems (ANASTACIA, 2017). Each new project layers onto the previous one: first make devices talk, then slice the network to carry their traffic, then secure the whole chain. With no H2020 projects after 2019, their visible H2020 footprint stops before the Horizon Europe era — so any "recent" trend must be read from that 2015→2017 arc rather than current data.

They appear to be moving from test infrastructure into secure, sliced, production-grade IoT deployments — a natural fit for consortia tackling trusted connectivity in industrial or critical-infrastructure settings.

How they like to work

Device Gateway joins as a participant rather than coordinator across all three H2020 projects, operating as a specialist technical contributor inside large, multi-country research consortia. With 27 unique partners across 12 countries from just 3 projects, they work in broad, diverse networks rather than repeating the same small team. They are the sort of partner you plug in for a specific technical capability, not one who will run the whole consortium.

27 unique consortium partners across 12 countries from only 3 projects, indicating very diverse partnerships per project. Their base in Lausanne and participation in EU RIA projects gives them a clear European research footprint despite Switzerland's associated-country status.

What sets them apart

Device Gateway is a Swiss private company operating in a space dominated by universities and large telecom players, bringing a product-oriented engineering mindset to IoT interoperability and gateway middleware. Their combination of testbed/conformance testing experience plus 5G and security work is unusual — most partners specialise in only one of those layers. Partner with them when you need someone who can actually make heterogeneous devices and networks interoperate in a real deployment, not just describe how they should.

Highlights from their portfolio

• F-Interop
  Directly aligned with their core business — building online interoperability, conformance, performance and scalability testbeds as a federated service for FIRE+.
• ANASTACIA
  Extends their IoT work into security and trust assessment for cyber-physical systems, showing they can contribute beyond connectivity into trustworthy IoT.
• 5GPagoda
  Places them inside the 5G network-slicing research community, bridging device-level interoperability with next-generation carrier network design.