NetWave (2020–2023) relied on ultrasonic wave generation to prevent biofouling on aquaculture nets, with transducer listed as a top keyword.
NESNE ELEKTRONIK TASARIM-DANISMANLIK SANAYI VE TICARET LIMITED SIRKETI
Turkish electronics design SME building ultrasonic transducer and sensor systems for industrial inspection and aquaculture applications.
Their core work
Nesne Electronic is a Turkish SME specializing in custom electronics design, embedded systems engineering, and sensor/transducer technology for industrial and environmental applications. Their core competency is translating a physical measurement challenge — whether detecting faults on high-voltage power lines or generating ultrasonic waves to prevent marine biofouling — into purpose-built electronic hardware. In Intel-Line they built an intelligent automated inspection system for power cable maintenance; in NetWave they contributed transducer engineering to a system that uses ultrasonic waves to stop biofouling growth on fish farm nets. They function as a hardware and electronics design engine inside innovation consortia, providing the device-level technology that makes a concept physically work.
What they specialise in
Both Intel-Line (power line inspection) and NetWave (aquaculture net monitoring) required purpose-built electronic sensing and control hardware.
Intel-Line (2016–2019) was built around an automated, electronics-driven inspection platform for power line cable maintenance.
NetWave placed them inside a fisheries and aquaculture context, applying electronic hardware to animal welfare and net maintenance in open-water environments.
How they've shifted over time
In their first H2020 project (2016–2019) Nesne focused on industrial infrastructure — building electronics for automated inspection of power transmission cables, a land-based, engineering-heavy domain with no nature-related keywords. By their second project (2020–2023) the application domain had shifted entirely to marine environments: fisheries, aquaculture, biofouling, and animal welfare all appeared as primary descriptors, while the underlying technology (transducers, electronic wave generation) remained their contribution. The trajectory suggests Nesne is deliberately moving their electronics competency into the blue economy and environmental technology sectors, likely because demand and EU funding gravity is stronger there.
Nesne is migrating its core electronics design capability from land-based infrastructure toward marine and environmental applications, making them a credible hardware partner for future blue economy or precision aquaculture projects.
How they like to work
Nesne has acted as project coordinator once and as a technical partner once across their two projects, showing they can carry project management responsibility as well as deliver specialist contributions. Their consortia are small — five unique partners across three countries — which suggests they prefer tight, focused teams over large multi-partner projects. There is no evidence of repeat partnerships, meaning they likely seek new collaborators per project rather than relying on a fixed network.
Nesne has worked with five consortium partners spread across three countries, giving them a modest but genuinely international footprint rooted in Turkey and extending into at least two other European countries. Their network is small and project-specific rather than broad or densely connected.
What sets them apart
Nesne occupies an unusual niche as a Turkish electronics design SME that bridges industrial automation and marine environmental technology — a cross-sector combination rare among H2020 participants. Their value in a consortium is concrete and device-level: they build the hardware that makes a concept physically measurable or controllable, which is a bottleneck skill that many research-heavy consortia lack. For partners seeking a Mediterranean/Turkish electronics design house with demonstrated EU project delivery experience, Nesne is one of very few credible options with an actual track record.
Highlights from their portfolio
- NetWaveTheir largest project by EC funding (€862,750) and the clearest signal of their transducer expertise, applied to the commercially important problem of biofouling on aquaculture nets — a problem with direct animal welfare and productivity consequences.
- Intel-LineAs coordinator on this project Nesne demonstrated they can lead a full EU Innovation Action, not merely contribute as a subcontractor — a meaningful signal of project management maturity for a small SME.