ORIGIN GPS LTD

Their core work

Origin GPS Ltd is an Israeli SME that designs and manufactures compact GNSS (GPS/satellite positioning) modules and hardware platforms for IoT devices. Their core product line enables outdoor IoT devices — trackers, sensors, asset monitors — to use satellite constellation data more efficiently, reducing power consumption and improving fix times in challenging environments. Through their OriginIoT programme they expanded from GNSS-only modules into integrated cellular IoT solutions, combining satellite positioning with LTE-M or NB-IoT connectivity in a single hardware platform. Their business model is product commercialization: they sell chipsets and modules to IoT device manufacturers, fleet management companies, and connected-hardware developers.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

In 2018, Origin GPS entered H2020 with a tightly scoped Phase 1 feasibility study focused on GNSS constellation efficiency for outdoor IoT — a hardware positioning problem. By 2019 they had secured a Phase 2 development grant three times larger, and the language shifted from GNSS utilization to cellular IoT device development broadly, signalling that they were building a combined GNSS-plus-cellular platform rather than a standalone GPS module. The trajectory is a textbook SME Instrument progression: validate the concept, then fund full product development and market entry with the larger grant.

Origin GPS is moving from a niche GNSS component supplier toward a broader cellular IoT hardware platform company — organisations building connected outdoor devices or fleet/asset tracking solutions are the natural collaboration or customer target.

How they like to work

Origin GPS ran both H2020 projects as sole coordinator under the SME Instrument, which is a single-company grant designed for commercial product development rather than collaborative research. They recorded zero consortium partners across both projects, meaning they have no shared H2020 network to speak of. This is not unusual for SME Instrument awardees — it means they operate as a self-contained R&D company and would enter any consortium as a specialist technology provider, not as a networked research hub.

Origin GPS has no recorded H2020 consortium partners and no cross-border collaborations in this dataset. Their H2020 activity was entirely self-funded development through the SME Instrument, so their European network is effectively blank from project data alone.

What sets them apart

Origin GPS is one of a small number of Israeli SMEs that successfully completed both phases of the H2020 SME Instrument in the GNSS-IoT space, demonstrating validated commercial potential recognised by EU evaluators. Their specific niche — making GNSS work better inside constrained IoT hardware — sits at the intersection of satellite navigation and low-power cellular connectivity, a combination that most pure-GPS or pure-IoT firms do not cover. For consortium builders in smart agriculture, logistics, environmental monitoring, or smart cities, they represent ready-made, commercially validated positioning-plus-connectivity hardware.

Highlights from their portfolio

• OriginIoT (Phase 2)
  The largest grant (€2.2M, 2019–2022) funded full commercial development of a cellular IoT platform, representing the company's main technology bet and longest H2020 engagement.
• OriginIoT (Phase 1)
  The Phase 1 feasibility study (2018) is notable as the proof-of-concept that unlocked the Phase 2 award — a complete SME Instrument two-stage progression on a single product line.