Sampas Bilisim Ve Iletisim Sistemleri Sanayi Ve Ticaret A.S.

Their core work

Sampas is a Turkish IT and communications company specializing in software platforms for smart city management, urban data integration, and decision-support systems. Their core work involves building ICT solutions that help cities plan, monitor, and optimize urban services — from energy and mobility to citizen engagement and environmental resilience. They bring software engineering capabilities to large-scale EU demonstration projects, typically providing the digital infrastructure layer that connects sensors, data analytics, and city dashboards. More recently, they have expanded into AI-based surveillance and monitoring systems for security applications.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Sampas entered H2020 with a clear smart city focus — their early projects (2015–2018) centered on urban transformation, ICT-driven city planning, upscaling demonstration results, and citizen engagement platforms. From 2019 onward, their work diversified significantly: they moved into food security and EU-China cooperation (SiEUGreen), building energy renovation (e-SAFE), and AI-powered maritime security (AI-ARC). This broadening suggests a company that has matured its core smart city platform capabilities and is now applying them across adjacent domains where data integration and decision-support tools are needed.

Sampas is moving from pure smart city software toward AI-driven monitoring and resilience applications across security, energy, and environmental domains — signaling readiness for projects that need adaptable data platforms beyond the urban context.

How they like to work

Sampas operates exclusively as a consortium partner, never as coordinator, which positions them as a reliable technology contributor rather than a project leader. With 111 unique partners across 23 countries from just 6 projects, they consistently work in very large consortia (averaging ~19 partners per project). This pattern indicates a company comfortable operating in complex, multi-national teams and delivering defined technical work packages without needing to steer the overall project direction.

Sampas has built a wide network of 111 unique consortium partners spanning 23 countries, largely through participation in large-scale demonstration and innovation projects. Their network is heavily European but extends to China through the SiEUGreen cooperation project.

What sets them apart

Sampas brings a rare combination for a Turkish SME: proven smart city software capabilities tested across multiple large EU demonstration projects, now expanding into AI and security domains. Their strength is not in research but in building the practical ICT infrastructure — dashboards, data integration layers, decision-support tools — that makes research results usable by cities and operators. For consortium builders, they offer a cost-effective software development partner with strong experience in delivering within large EU project structures.

Highlights from their portfolio

• MAtchUP
  By far their largest project (EUR 1M+ funding, 2017–2023), a flagship smart city lighthouse initiative focused on urban transformation at scale across multiple European cities.
• AI-ARC
  Represents a strategic pivot into AI and Arctic security — a new domain that shows the company's ambition to apply its data platform expertise beyond traditional smart city work.
• SiEUGreen
  An EU-China cooperation project combining smart cities with food security and urban agriculture — demonstrates ability to work across geopolitical and thematic boundaries.