GLAREVISION SA

Their core work

GLAREVISION SA is a Portuguese technology SME building augmented reality and IoT-based tools for industrial maintenance. Their flagship work, the GLARTEK platform, provides AR-assisted guidance for maintenance technicians — overlaying digital instructions onto physical equipment to reduce errors and downtime. They subsequently expanded into virtual IoT maintenance systems, integrating sensor data and remote monitoring with their visualization expertise. Their commercial focus is on making complex industrial maintenance faster and more accessible to less-specialized workers.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

GLAREVISION's H2020 footprint spans only 2018–2019, so keyword-based evolution data is absent. Their earliest activity was an SME Instrument Phase 1 feasibility study for AR-assisted maintenance (GLARTEK), confirming they were commercializing their own proprietary platform from the start. They then joined an Innovation Action consortium (VIMS) focused on IoT maintenance systems, suggesting a deliberate broadening from standalone AR visualization toward integrated sensor-and-visualization maintenance platforms.

GLAREVISION appears to be converging AR and IoT into a unified maintenance platform; future consortia in smart factory, predictive maintenance, or digital twin projects would align naturally with this direction.

How they like to work

GLAREVISION has shown both leadership and partnership ability: they coordinated their own GLARTEK feasibility project, then stepped into a participant role in the larger VIMS consortium. With only 6 known partners across 4 countries and a small total funding base, they operate in lean, focused consortia rather than broad multi-partner networks. This is typical of product-focused SMEs that bring a specific technology component — in their case AR and IoT maintenance tooling — rather than building wide research alliances.

GLAREVISION has collaborated with 6 unique consortium partners across 4 countries, indicating a European but compact network. Their geographic footprint likely reflects direct technology partnerships built around their maintenance platform rather than broad academic ties.

What sets them apart

GLAREVISION is one of very few Portuguese SMEs with a direct H2020 track record in AR-assisted industrial maintenance — a niche sitting precisely at the intersection of wearable technology, IoT, and operational maintenance. Unlike larger digital transformation consultancies, they appear to own a proprietary platform (GLARTEK) rather than reselling third-party tools. For consortium builders needing a hands-on AR and IoT maintenance technology provider with real product development experience, they offer both EU project credibility and a commercial product orientation.

Highlights from their portfolio

• GLARTEK
  Their own self-coordinated SME Instrument Phase 1 project, confirming that GLARTEK is GLAREVISION's proprietary AR maintenance product — not a research concept but a commercial platform under development.
• VIMS
  The longer-running Innovation Action project (2019–2022) placed GLAREVISION in a multi-partner consortium building a virtual IoT maintenance system, showing their technology integrates into broader industrial platforms.