Aircraft wireless sensor networksprimary
2 projects
AMPWISE developed autonomous wireless current sensors for aircraft power lines, while SMARTWISE focused on miniaturized energy-autonomous wireless SHM sensors for regional aircraft.
Organization
SERMA INGENIERIE
French aerospace engineering firm specializing in wireless sensor hardware, pilot monitoring systems, and energy-autonomous electronics for aircraft.
Engineering firmtransportFRNo active H2020 projects
H2020 projects
4
As coordinator
0
Total EC funding
€594K
Unique partners
7
What they do
Their core work
SERMA Ingénierie is a French engineering services company specializing in embedded electronics and sensor systems for the aerospace industry. Based near Toulouse — Europe's aerospace capital — they design and develop hardware solutions for aircraft monitoring, including wireless sensor networks, pilot-state detection systems, and avionics interfaces. Their work spans from miniaturized energy-autonomous sensors for structural health monitoring to human-machine interaction systems in cockpits.
Core expertise
What they specialise in
Pilot monitoring and cognitive systemsprimary
2 projects
HIPNOSIS built hardware for non-intrusive pilot cognitive state identification, and PEGGASUS developed eye gaze and gesture tracking for avionics systems.
Energy harvesting for embedded systemssecondary
2 projects
Both AMPWISE (autonomous wireless sensor) and SMARTWISE (energy autonomous sensor) required energy harvesting solutions to power onboard sensors without wiring.
1 project
SMARTWISE explicitly targets SHM for aircraft using wireless sensor networks, indicating a move toward predictive maintenance applications.
Evolution & trajectory
How they've shifted over time
Early focus
Aircraft electronics hardware
Recent focus
Smart autonomous sensor systems
SERMA Ingénierie's H2020 participation spans a compact window (2018–2020 project starts), making dramatic shifts hard to observe. Their earlier projects (AMPWISE, HIPNOSIS) focused on standalone hardware components — power line sensors and pilot cognition hardware. Their later projects (PEGGASUS, SMARTWISE) show a shift toward integrated systems: combining sensor data with human factors (eye tracking) and adding structural health monitoring with energy harvesting, suggesting a move from discrete components toward smarter, self-sustaining sensor ecosystems.
Moving toward self-powered, intelligent sensor systems for aircraft — relevant for anyone working on predictive maintenance or next-generation avionics in aviation.
Collaboration profile
How they like to work
Role: specialist_contributorReach: European4 countries collaborated
SERMA Ingénierie operates exclusively as a participant, never leading consortia, which is consistent with an engineering services firm contributing specialized hardware expertise to larger aviation programs. With only 7 unique partners across 4 projects, they work in small, focused teams rather than sprawling consortia. Three of their four projects are Clean Sky 2 Innovation Actions, indicating strong ties to the European aerospace supply chain and Airbus-adjacent programs.
A compact network of 7 partners across 4 countries, concentrated in the Clean Sky 2 ecosystem. Their geographic position near Toulouse places them at the heart of European aerospace collaboration.
Why partner with them
What sets them apart
SERMA Ingénierie sits at the intersection of embedded electronics design and aerospace certification requirements — a niche that few engineering firms cover end-to-end. Their Toulouse location gives them proximity to Airbus and the broader European aerospace supply chain. For consortium builders, they offer hands-on hardware implementation capability: they don't just design sensors, they build the physical systems that go on aircraft.
Notable projects
Highlights from their portfolio
- HIPNOSISLargest funding (€235K) and tackles the complex challenge of real-time pilot cognitive state detection through non-intrusive hardware — bridging electronics with human factors.
- SMARTWISEMost recent project combining SHM, wireless sensors, and energy harvesting into a single miniaturized system — represents the convergence of their accumulated expertise.
Cross-sector capabilities
Manufacturing — sensor integration and miniaturized electronics for industrial monitoringDigital — embedded systems, wireless networks, and signal processingHealth — non-intrusive physiological monitoring hardware (transferable from pilot monitoring)Security — surveillance and detection sensor systems
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