TELLU AS

Their core work

Tellu AS is a Norwegian technology SME specializing in IoT software platforms, data pipeline engineering, and secure device lifecycle management. They build tools for managing smart connected systems — from sensor data collection through edge and cloud processing to trust and identity management. Their work spans industrial IoT (smart manufacturing, DevOps for IoT) and health-oriented smart living environments, with a consistent thread of making distributed systems trustworthy and manageable at scale.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Tellu's early H2020 work (2018–2019) centered on foundational IoT software engineering — building trustworthy smart systems and DevOps toolchains for connected devices (ENACT, Arrowhead Tools). From 2021 onward, their focus shifted markedly toward data-intensive and decentralized systems: big data pipelines across the computing continuum, blockchain-based trust, self-sovereign identity for IoT, and health-oriented smart environments. The trajectory shows a company moving up the stack from device-level engineering toward data orchestration and secure, identity-aware distributed platforms.

Tellu is converging on secure, identity-aware data platforms for IoT — expect them to pursue projects combining edge computing, decentralized trust, and health/wellbeing applications.

How they like to work

Tellu consistently joins as a technology partner rather than leading consortia (0 coordinator roles across 5 projects). They work in large consortia — 140 unique partners across 22 countries indicate broad reach rather than repeated partnerships. This profile suggests a specialist contributor that brings specific IoT and data platform capabilities to diverse teams, adaptable enough to fit into varied consortium configurations.

Tellu has collaborated with 140 unique partners across 22 countries, giving them a wide European network. Their connections span both industrial digitalization and health research communities, offering consortium builders access to two distinct partner ecosystems.

What sets them apart

Tellu bridges the gap between IoT infrastructure and real-world application domains like health and manufacturing — they are not just a platform company, they understand how to make connected systems trustworthy and manageable in sensitive contexts. Their combination of data pipeline engineering, decentralized identity, and smart living expertise is unusual for a Norwegian SME. For consortium builders, they offer a technically deep partner who can handle the IoT middleware and data layer without needing to also coordinate the project.

Highlights from their portfolio

• ENACT
  Their largest single grant (EUR 603,250), establishing their core IoT DevOps and trustworthiness expertise that informed all subsequent work.
• DataCloud
  Their second-largest project (EUR 538,750) marks a strategic pivot toward big data pipelines, computing continuum, and blockchain — their most technically ambitious scope.
• ERATOSTHENES
  Combines self-sovereign identity with IoT lifecycle management — a forward-looking topic at the intersection of decentralized trust and device security.