GREENERWAVE

Their core work

GREENERWAVE is a Paris-based deeptech SME specializing in reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) and metasurface technology for 6G and beyond-5G wireless networks. Their core work involves making wireless propagation environments programmable — using engineered electromagnetic surfaces to control how radio signals reflect, scatter, and are absorbed, rather than simply adding more antennas or base stations. They contribute expertise in signal processing, channel modeling, and resource allocation, with a particular focus on making next-generation wireless infrastructure more energy-efficient and EMF-responsible. The company name itself encodes their positioning: wireless technology made greener through intelligent, software-controlled electromagnetic environments.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

GREENERWAVE entered H2020 through the theoretical side of 6G: signal processing, channel modeling, and resource allocation — the mathematical tools needed to understand how future wireless systems will behave. As their participation progressed, the focus shifted decisively toward the physical implementation layer: RIS, IRS, and metasurfaces, which are the actual hardware/material technologies that make intelligent wireless environments possible. The most recent project (RISE-6G) adds a sustainability and EMF dimension that was absent in the earlier work, suggesting the company is deliberately positioning at the intersection of 6G performance and responsible deployment — not just faster wireless, but cleaner and safer wireless.

GREENERWAVE is moving toward productizing intelligent wireless surfaces with an explicit sustainability brand — a differentiated position as telecom regulators and operators face increasing pressure on EMF exposure and energy consumption.

How they like to work

GREENERWAVE has participated exclusively as a consortium partner rather than a project coordinator across both H2020 projects, indicating they prefer to contribute specialist technical expertise within larger collaborative structures. With 21 unique partners across 10 countries from just two projects, they are clearly embedded in large, multi-actor European research consortia — both MSCA-ITN and RIA schemes typically involve 8–15 partners. This pattern suggests a company that brings a well-defined, sought-after technical competency (metasurface and RIS expertise) that consortia actively recruit, rather than a generalist that self-organizes projects.

GREENERWAVE has built a network of 21 consortium partners across 10 countries through just two projects, indicating membership in large, geographically diverse European consortia. Their collaborative footprint is pan-European in scope, consistent with 6G research networks that span telecom operators, hardware vendors, universities, and regulatory bodies across the continent.

What sets them apart

GREENERWAVE occupies a rare niche as a small private company — not a university group — with deep technical credibility in reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, a field that most RIS expertise sits in academic labs. Their "greener" brand identity gives them a differentiated narrative in a crowded 6G landscape: they are not just pursuing faster wireless, but are explicitly positioned at the convergence of 6G performance, EMF safety, and energy efficiency. For a consortium builder, they offer the unusual combination of SME agility, commercial orientation, and research-grade RIS/metasurface expertise that academic partners rarely provide.

Highlights from their portfolio

• RISE-6G
  The larger of the two projects (€445,000) and the most application-focused, directly targeting reconfigurable intelligent environments for 6G deployment with explicit sustainability and EMF dimensions — closest to a commercial product trajectory.
• META WIRELESS
  A long-duration MSCA-ITN project (2020–2025) on meta-material-empowered future wireless, providing GREENERWAVE with access to a European training network of doctoral researchers — an unusual asset for an SME of this size.