FUSIO D'ARTS TECHNOLOGY SL

Their core work

Fusio d'Arts Technology is a Spanish technology SME building assistive technology products for deaf and hard-of-hearing people. Their core work translates audio alerts — doorbells, alarms, notifications — into visual and smart-environment signals, enabling deaf users to live more independently. They developed Visualfy, a commercial visual notification platform, and then scaled that concept into Deaf Smart Space, an IoT-integrated accessibility environment. They are a product company, not a research group: their EU funding was used to validate and commercialize a real product on the European market.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Their trajectory follows the classic SME Instrument arc: a small Phase 1 grant in 2015 to prove the concept of visual notification for deaf users, followed by a substantially larger Phase 2 grant in 2017 to build and bring Deaf Smart Space to market. The shift from "Visualfy" (a notification app) to "Deaf Smart Space" (a connected environment) shows a deliberate move from a single-function tool toward a broader smart-home or smart-building platform. No keyword data is available to confirm technical depth of this evolution, so this interpretation is based solely on project titles and funding scale.

They appear to be moving from a mobile notification app toward a full ambient-intelligence platform for deaf accessibility — a trajectory that intersects with smart building, IoT, and inclusive design markets.

How they like to work

Fusio d'Arts Technology has acted as coordinator on both of their EU projects, meaning they drive the work rather than joining as a supporting partner. Importantly, no consortium partners are recorded in the data, which is consistent with the SME Instrument scheme — SME Phase 1 and Phase 2 grants are typically awarded to a single company, not consortia. This means their H2020 track record does not tell us much about how they behave as a consortium member, only that they can write and deliver on EU-funded projects independently.

No consortium partners are recorded across their two projects, which reflects the solo-company structure of the SME Instrument rather than an absence of external relationships. Their effective collaboration network within H2020 is unknown from this data.

What sets them apart

Fusio d'Arts Technology occupies a narrow but commercially real niche: they are building products specifically for the deaf community, not generic accessibility tools. Their successful progression from SME Phase 1 to Phase 2 — a competitive step that fewer than 6% of SME applicants achieve — signals that the European Commission found their business case credible and scalable. For a consortium needing a specialist end-user technology partner with proven EU funding ability in assistive tech and digital inclusion, they are an unusual find among Spanish SMEs.

Highlights from their portfolio

• DSS
  At EUR 1.34 million, Deaf Smart Space represents a full SME Phase 2 commercialization grant — a highly competitive award that validates both the technology and the business model for connected accessibility environments.
• Visualfy
  The Phase 1 feasibility grant that launched the company's EU trajectory and gave name to what became their flagship commercial product, Visualfy.