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KIoT & Smart City · since 2018

From Sensor
to App.

We make German municipalities smart: sensors, network and sovereign AI for the tasks your city faces. GDPR-compliant and made in Europe, from sensor to app.

For municipalities & utilities

Smart city solutions for your municipality.

Sensors, network and sovereign AI for the tasks German cities really face. GDPR-compliant, data hosted in Germany, from sensor to app.

Smart Waste

Fill-level sensors and AI route planning cut collection kilometers. Proven with Stadtwerke Hürth.

Urban green & irrigation

Soil-moisture and climate sensors protect trees and green spaces and water on demand, not by calendar.

Parking & traffic

Real-time occupancy and traffic flows cut search traffic and improve planning for the administration.

Water levels & flood protection

River and sewer levels in real time with threshold alerts, early warning for citizens and the works yard.

Air & environmental quality

Particulate, CO2 and climate sensors deliver reliable data for low-emission zones and citizen information.

Sovereign AI & citizen app

Local AI assistants and the CityApp bring municipal data to administration and citizens, GDPR-compliant and with no data leaving the country.

Made in Europe GDPR-compliant Data hosted in Germany Edge AI, not cloud Full data sovereignty

In service across Neuss, Hürth, Dormagen, Dülmen, Senden, Lüdinghausen, Nordkirchen and the Coesfeld district.

One seamless path, from raw signal to finished application.

We build the entire stack: install on site, capture data, refine it, understand it with AI and deliver it as an app. With a focus on technical time series and real-time requirements.

01 Installation

Install

We build sensors, gateways and the LoRaWAN network turnkey on site.

02 Sensor

Capture

Sensors and field devices deliver real-time data from the real world.

03 Data

Refine

The dataPlatform turns raw data into clean, tradable data products.

04 AI

Understand

Local RAG and federated learning create models without revealing your data.

05 App

Deliver

Ready-made AI apps, in the aiStore and in urbanOS, ready to use for your city.

Smart city, on wheels.

When we say "install on site", we mean it literally. Our Smart City response vehicle brings sensors, gateways and know-how straight to your municipality. From sensor to app, shipped from Cologne.

See the ecosystem
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The Ecosystem

A home for everything dataMatters builds.

Products, platforms and channels, in one place. Six ways in today, and more to come.

Award-winning, internationally recognised.

A company of the real digital economy, trusted by talent, juries and ministries.

2025 · Milesight IoT Impact Award

Smart waste management in Hürth, awarded.

Together with Stadtwerke Hürth: predictive AI and sensor data make municipal waste collection measurably more efficient.

21%fewer collection km per week
61%fewer complaints
Read the success story
2024

Best IT Employer

Awarded by Handelsblatt.

2024

INVEST Seal

Venture capital eligibility, certified by the BMWK.

2024

Innovation Champion

Named twice by FOCUS magazine, in 2023 and 2024.

Great results come from great teams.

A handpicked developer team, deliberately broad in scope: from sensors and backend to AI, we cover every area from a single source. Every member also lives as a character in our pixel world.

Pixel avatar of Dr. Daniel Trauth
Daniel
CEO & Founder
Pixel avatar of Joachim Stanke
Joachim
DevOps & Sensors
Pixel avatar of Manuel Osterloh
Manuel
Frontend & PM
Pixel avatar of Jonas Lieske
Jonas
Backend & Crypto
Pixel avatar of Gauthier Nelkin
Gauthier
Full-Stack & Data
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Max
IoT & LLMs

Ready to turn your data into apps?

Whether Smart City, Smart Factory or Smart Health: tell us where your data is generated. We will show you the way to the app.