MIXED MODE GMBH

Their core work

Mixed Mode GmbH is a German electronics engineering SME based near Munich that designs hardware and embedded systems for power electronics, sensor technology, and energy management applications. Their technical fingerprint — TMR and Hall sensors, power conversion circuits, and charging infrastructure — points to a company that builds the low-level hardware components that make smart energy systems actually work. In PROGRESSUS they contributed to next-generation electronics for microgrids and EV fast-charging, while in CONNECT they worked on smart, connected, and secure appliances. They occupy the gap between pure semiconductor research and system integration: they translate component-level innovation into working electronics.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Mixed Mode entered H2020 through CONNECT (2017), an ECSEL-RIA project targeting smart, connected, and secure home and grid appliances — a broad IoT and smart electronics mandate with no surviving keyword record, suggesting a generalist role within a large electronics consortium. By 2020, PROGRESSUS shows a pronounced sharpening of focus: the keyword set is dense and specific, centered on power conversion, magnetic sensors, EV charging, microgrid, and trusted hardware. The shift is from "smart and connected" as a broad theme toward energy infrastructure hardware as a defined specialty. The addition of blockchain suggests they are also tracking software-hardware integration for grid transactions, a more complex and applied domain than their starting point.

Mixed Mode is moving deeper into energy transition hardware — specifically the sensor, power conversion, and charging electronics that underpin EV infrastructure and smart microgrids — making them a candidate partner for any project needing embedded hardware expertise in the energy-mobility intersection.

How they like to work

Mixed Mode has participated exclusively as a consortium partner across both projects, never taking a coordinator role — a pattern consistent with a specialist SME that contributes specific technical components rather than leading research agendas. Their two projects both sit in large ECSEL or RIA consortia, suggesting comfort operating within multi-partner structures where they can focus on their hardware niche. With 34 unique partners across only 2 projects, they appear to work within genuinely broad consortia rather than returning to a fixed circle of collaborators.

Mixed Mode has built connections with 34 distinct consortium partners across 5 countries through just two projects, indicating they have joined large, multi-national research consortia typical of ECSEL and RIA programs. Their geographic reach is European, likely centered on the German-Austrian-Dutch electronics ecosystem given their Munich base, though the exact country mix is not detailed in the available data.

What sets them apart

Mixed Mode fills a specific and often underrepresented slot in research consortia: the hardware engineering SME that can prototype and validate the actual electronics — sensors, power circuits, charging controllers — that larger partners design at the architecture level. For a consortium building an EV charging or microgrid project, they bring applied electronics execution capacity that most universities and research institutes cannot provide in-house. Their combination of magnetic sensor expertise (TMR + Hall) and trusted hardware security is uncommon and directly relevant to industrial energy monitoring and grid-edge devices.

Highlights from their portfolio

• PROGRESSUS
  Their highest-funded project (EUR 244,125) and the source of their entire keyword profile — covering power conversion, EV charging, magnetic sensors, and trusted hardware, it defines Mixed Mode's current technical identity.
• CONNECT
  An ECSEL-RIA project, the most industrially-oriented EU funding scheme for electronics components, signaling that Mixed Mode was recognized early as a credible hardware partner within Europe's strategic electronics ecosystem.