IRIDEON SL

Their core work

IRIDEON is a Barcelona-based technology SME that builds IoT sensor networks and earth observation platforms for environmental and public health monitoring. They design smart trap systems and ground sensor arrays to track disease-carrying insects (mosquitoes, vectors) and monitor pollinator populations like honey bees. Their core business combines Internet of Things hardware with cloud computing, GIS, and machine-learning to deliver spatial decision support systems — turning raw sensor and satellite data (including Copernicus) into actionable intelligence for pest control authorities, agricultural producers, and public health agencies.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

IRIDEON began (2015–2018) with broad IoT experimentation — a telemedicine device (CardioBIVA), a generic sensor framework (SENSCAPE), and mosquito surveillance hardware (REMOSIS) focused on public health and environmental risk monitoring. From 2019 onward, they sharpened their focus dramatically: integrating Copernicus satellite data, machine-learning, and GIS into their sensor platforms, and pivoting from pure public health toward agricultural applications like pollinator monitoring. The trajectory shows a company that started as an IoT hardware builder and matured into a spatial intelligence platform provider combining ground sensors with earth observation.

IRIDEON is moving from standalone IoT devices toward integrated platforms that fuse ground sensor data with satellite imagery and AI — expect future work in precision agriculture, biodiversity monitoring, or climate adaptation services.

How they like to work

IRIDEON overwhelmingly leads its own projects — coordinating 5 out of 6 H2020 projects, which is unusual for an SME of this size and signals strong project management capability and initiative. Their consortia are small (9 unique partners across all projects, averaging ~2 partners per project), typical of SME Instrument and focused Innovation Actions. This is a company that drives its own R&D agenda rather than joining large consortia as a service provider — a good fit for partners who want a technically capable, self-directed lead or co-lead.

IRIDEON has collaborated with 9 unique partners across 8 countries, indicating a broadly European but not deep network. Their partnerships appear project-specific rather than based on repeated alliances, suggesting openness to new collaborators.

What sets them apart

IRIDEON occupies a rare niche at the intersection of IoT sensor hardware, earth observation (Copernicus), and entomological surveillance — very few SMEs combine all three. Their progression from mosquito traps to pollinator monitoring to full spatial decision support platforms gives them a unique ability to deliver end-to-end environmental intelligence systems, from the sensor in the field to the cloud-based analytics dashboard. For consortium builders, they bring both the hardware engineering and the data science — a single partner that covers the full sensing-to-insight chain.

Highlights from their portfolio

• iPollinate
  Their largest project (EUR 796K), representing a strategic expansion into precision agriculture and food security through intelligent pollination monitoring with Copernicus integration.
• VECTRACK
  Demonstrates their core value proposition — combining earth observation with ground sensors for disease vector control, bridging satellite data and IoT into a single service.
• REMOSIS
  Their only project as participant (not coordinator), and the foundation of their insect surveillance expertise — a smart IoT trap for identifying and counting disease-carrying mosquitoes.