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Bridging Innovation Between Europe and Africa.

InnoTec21 builds and coordinates applied research that reaches the field: IoT and embedded systems, wireless sensor networks, and Copernicus Earth-observation data — turned into working deployments with partners across two continents.

15+ EU-funded projects since 2009
20+ Countries with partners
80+ Consortium partners
2 Continents, one network

Our products

Research that now ships as product.

Wazifarm

Precision agriculture platform

Precision agriculture starts in the soil.

  • IoT soil sensors with AI-driven, automated irrigation
  • Real-time and historical dashboards you configure
  • Farmer training alongside the hardware
Visit wazifarm.com

Majiup

Smart water management platform

Clean water delivery and management for every home and business.

Utilities

Tank levels, leak detection, usage reports, mobile alerts

Agriculture

Irrigation flow monitoring, remote pump control

Visit majiup.com

Porai

AI tutoring platform

Personalised AI math tutoring for Bangladesh and India.

  • Adapts pace and explanation to each student, on local curricula
  • Shows teachers learning gaps and assigns targeted practice
  • Compliance-first, built to support teachers rather than replace them
Visit porai.ai

Open IoT infrastructure & ecosystem

An open ecosystem, grown from research to market.

Over a decade of EU-funded work, we helped build an open IoT ecosystem across Africa: shared open-source technology, local innovation hubs, trained engineers and a pipeline of startups. It is the foundation our own products now stand on.

Track record · research to market Open source
  1. 01 · Research

    WAZIUP

    Co-designed an open IoT and data platform with African communities, built for low cost and rural conditions.

    Open technology

  2. 02 · Hubs

    WAZIHUB

    Took the technology into African innovation hubs, training engineers and incubating startups through African Open Hubs.

    Local capacity

  3. 03 · Acceleration

    HUBiquitous

    Scaled into a cross-country IoT accelerator network run with partner hubs.

    Startup growth

  4. 04 · Market

    Today

    The same open foundation powers our commercial products and solutions built by hubs and startups.

    Commercial products

Powers WazifarmMajiup + applications built by hubs and startups Code & documentation ↗

Ecosystem results

~100k People reached across Sub-Saharan Africa WAZIUP
48 Startups incubated through African Open Hubs WAZIHUB
26 IoT accelerator programmes via 18 partner hubs HUBiquitous
13 Countries in the accelerator network HUBiquitous

Research & EU funding · featured project

KijaniSpace

Horizon Europe · EUSPA-backed · 2024–2027 · InnoTec21 as coordinator

Copernicus satellite data fused with ground-level IoT sensing to give smallholder and commercial farms usable climate-smart guidance — irrigation timing, crop stress, yield risk. Thirteen partners across seven countries in Europe and East Africa, with field deployments that feed real agronomic decisions rather than pilot reports.

13 partners 7 countries Copernicus + IoT Coordinator
KijaniSpace field deployment

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What we do

Four Capabilities, One Continuous Chain from Funding to Field.

01

R&D project management & funding consulting

Funding strategy, proposals, consortium building, contracts, controlling and reporting — end to end.

02

Technology & system design

IoT architectures, embedded hardware, wireless sensor networks and Earth-observation data pipelines.

03

Innovation scouting & market deployment

Technology transfer between companies, research institutions and startups — with a route to deployment.

04

Digital Innovation Hubs & training

Hub design, curricula and cross-continental programmes that leave capacity behind.

How each engagement works

Africa–Europe practice

Ecosystems, not one-off pilots.

Through HUBiquitous, WAZIUP and WAZIHUB we built Digital Innovation Hubs, trained hundreds of engineers and entrepreneurs, and left open IoT stacks in the hands of local teams. That network is why our consortia reach the field quickly — and why African partners stay involved past the final reporting period.

Read the impact record

For SMEs and institutes

We have written, won and run the grant.

Funding strategy, consortium building, proposal writing, contracts, controlling and reporting — handled by the same people who later deliver the technical work packages. Fifteen-plus completed EU-funded projects means no learning curve on your deadline.

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Have a project idea? Let's build it together.

Planning a Horizon Europe proposal, looking for a technical partner, or want to deploy Wazifarm, Majiup or Porai? Tell us what you're working on. A real person replies within two working days.