TELESTO TECHNOLOGIES PLIROFORIKIS KAI EPIKOINONION EPE

Their core work

Telesto is a Greek technology SME specializing in safety, security, and evacuation management systems for crowded spaces, critical infrastructure, and maritime vessels. They build software platforms that combine indoor localization, crowd simulation, AI-driven situation awareness, and augmented reality to guide people during emergencies. More recently, they have expanded into data marketplace technologies and smart city security solutions using digital twins and machine learning.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Telesto started (2016–2019) firmly rooted in physical security — protecting critical infrastructure, emergency response systems, and crowd safety in large facilities, as seen in RANGER and evaGuide. From 2019 onward, they branched into maritime safety (SafePASS), smart city cybersecurity with digital twins (S4AllCities), and data marketplace integration (i3-MARKET). The trajectory shows a company moving from domain-specific safety engineering toward broader AI-driven, data-enabled security platforms.

Telesto is moving from pure evacuation engineering toward AI-powered, data-integrated safety and security platforms applicable across maritime, urban, and industrial domains.

How they like to work

Telesto primarily participates as a partner (4 of 5 projects) but has demonstrated coordination capability with evaGuide, their largest-funded project. With 66 unique partners across 17 countries, they are well-networked for a 5-person-project SME, suggesting they are valued as a specialist contributor who integrates well into diverse consortia. Their mix of Innovation Action and Research & Innovation Action projects indicates comfort with both near-market development and earlier-stage research.

Telesto has built a broad European network of 66 partners across 17 countries through just 5 projects, indicating participation in large, multi-national consortia. No single geographic cluster dominates — their reach spans across the EU.

What sets them apart

Telesto sits at a distinctive intersection of safety engineering, crowd dynamics, and software development — they don't just study evacuation, they build the platforms that manage it in real time. Their combination of indoor localization, AR/VR, crowd simulation, and AI gives them a rare full-stack capability in emergency management technology. For consortium builders, they offer a technically capable SME that can deliver working software prototypes, not just research papers.

Highlights from their portfolio

• evaGuide
  Their only coordinator role and largest funding (EUR 753,862) — a security management platform for real-time adaptive evacuation in crowded facilities, representing their core identity.
• SafePASS
  Extended their evacuation expertise to maritime safety with novel life-saving appliances and AR-guided evacuation for passenger ships — a strong domain expansion.
• i3-MARKET
  A notable pivot into industrial data marketplaces, signaling diversification beyond their safety/security roots into the data economy.