MAINFLUX LABS DOO BEOGRAD ZVEZDARA

Their core work

Mainflux Labs is a Serbian IoT software company specializing in connected-device platforms, edge computing, and secure data pipelines. In EU research projects they contribute IoT middleware, device management, and real-time data infrastructure — essentially serving as the connectivity layer that links physical sensors to analytical systems. Their work has spanned industrial IoT for construction safety and, more recently, AI-driven cybersecurity and privacy-preserving machine learning. Their commercial product background in open-source IoT platforms distinguishes them from pure academic contributors in the same consortia.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Mainflux Labs entered H2020 through an applied IoT angle — their first project (Ashvin, 2020) centred on construction site safety, worker protection, and real-time data flows from physical sensors. Their second project (SPATIAL, 2021) marks a clear pivot toward AI security: the keywords shift entirely to trustworthy AI, explainable AI, privacy preservation, and trusted execution environments with no mention of physical infrastructure. The thread connecting both phases is data privacy, suggesting the company is deepening a security-first identity built on top of their IoT foundations rather than abandoning them.

Mainflux Labs is moving from IoT platform provider toward AI security specialist, making them an increasingly relevant partner for any consortium needing both connected-device infrastructure and privacy-preserving or explainable AI components.

How they like to work

Mainflux Labs participates exclusively as a consortium partner — they have never led an H2020 project — which positions them as a specialist contributor brought in for specific technical capabilities rather than a project driver. With 23 unique partners across 13 countries from only two projects, their network is notably broad relative to their participation volume, suggesting they are placed inside large, multi-partner RIA consortia. This profile fits an SME that provides a well-defined technology component (IoT platform, security layer) and integrates it into larger research architectures led by universities or research institutes.

Despite only two projects, Mainflux Labs has built connections with 23 distinct partners spread across 13 countries — an unusually wide reach for a two-project SME, reflecting their placement in large pan-European RIA consortia. No geographic concentration is discernible from available data.

What sets them apart

Mainflux Labs occupies a rare intersection: a product-driven IoT software SME from Serbia with demonstrated EU research credentials in both industrial IoT and AI security. Most IoT players in EU consortia come from academic labs or large system integrators — Mainflux brings actual deployable platform software, which matters when projects need to move beyond prototypes. Their dual exposure to construction-sector IoT and AI cybersecurity makes them one of the few partners who can speak both the operational technology (OT) and AI trustworthiness language simultaneously.

Highlights from their portfolio

• Ashvin
  Their largest funded project (EUR 425,925) applied their IoT platform to a concrete industrial problem — real-time construction safety and worker protection — demonstrating applied rather than theoretical deployment.
• SPATIAL
  Marks a strategic pivot into AI security research (explainable AI, TEE, privacy preservation), broadening Mainflux's positioning from IoT infrastructure into the high-growth trustworthy AI domain.