SMARTNET ANONYMI TOURISTIKI KAI KATASKEVASTIKI ETAIREIA PAROCHIS YPIRESION

Their core work

Smartnet AE is a Greek private SME that participates in large-scale European ICT research consortia, contributing to 5G network architecture, small cell coordination, and connected-vehicle communications trials. Despite a legal company name that references tourism and construction services, their entire H2020 project record is in telecommunications and network technology — suggesting either a pivot to ICT services or a holding structure with diverse business lines. They contributed to EU-China 5G harmonization trials and multi-tenancy edge service research, implying roles in testing, network integration, or applied engineering rather than pure academic research. Their work sits at the intersection of mobile network infrastructure and emerging vehicle-to-network use cases.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Smartnet entered H2020 in 2015 through SESAME, focused on the network-layer challenge of coordinating small cells and enabling edge services in dense multi-tenant environments — foundational groundwork for what became 5G. By 2018, with 5G-DRIVE, the focus shifted to full-scale 5G trial environments and real-world mobility use cases, particularly vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-network communications. The trajectory is consistent: from network infrastructure research toward applied 5G scenarios in connected transport.

Smartnet is moving deeper into connected mobility and 5G application layers, making them a plausible partner for future projects in autonomous vehicles, smart transport corridors, or 5G-enabled IoT deployments.

How they like to work

Smartnet has participated exclusively as a consortium member — never as coordinator — across both projects. They operate within large international consortia: across just 2 projects they accumulated 36 unique partners from 14 countries, which is unusually broad for an SME of this funding scale. This pattern signals a specialist contributor that large consortia actively recruit, rather than an organization that drives its own research agenda.

Smartnet has built a disproportionately wide network for a two-project SME: 36 unique partners across 14 countries. Notably, 5G-DRIVE was an EU-China bilateral initiative, giving them exposure to non-European research networks beyond standard Horizon consortia.

What sets them apart

Smartnet is a rare example of a Greek private-sector SME embedded in large-scale 5G research consortia — a space dominated by telcos, universities, and public research institutes. Their presence in both a European small-cells project and an EU-China 5G bilateral trial suggests they offer concrete operational or engineering value that pure research partners cannot. For consortium builders who need a Greek private-sector participant with verifiable 5G credentials, Smartnet is an uncommon and specific option.

Highlights from their portfolio

• 5G-DRIVE
  An EU-China bilateral 5G harmonization trial — unusually international in scope — covering eMBB and Internet of Vehicles use cases, and Smartnet's largest funded project at EUR 95,060.
• SESAME
  An early foundational 5G project addressing small cell multi-tenancy and mobile edge computing, giving Smartnet documented credentials in next-generation network architecture from 2015.