Romanian Start-ups in the IoT domain

If you think global start-up hubs, Romania is probably not the first country that comes to your mind. But the country's troubled past and years of economic hardship has given rise to a culture of self-sufficiency and resilience which is spawning a flourishing start-up tech sector.

The national statistics are still modest, but growing. Online database RomanianStartups.com currently lists 295 start-ups, 576 founders and eight accelerators/incubators.


Some of them are taking a chance with the Internet of Things - either as enablers, engagers or enhancers.

DeviceHub from Bucharest  is a cloud service that allows makers and companies to easily connect their Internet-enabled hardware projects to a dashboard for data gathering and data analysis, remote control and sending alerts based on events or triggers. It can be integrated with any kind of hardware, and is designed for smart metering, fleet management, medical industry, home automation, automotive and wearables.  On mid-March, it was announced that the company is receiving funding from  Krakow, Deutsche Telekom’s Innovation Hub for the CEE region. The company will also receive Krakow’s mentors, and access to a market of 150 million Deutsche Telekom Group customers across Europe.

uRADMonitor from Timisioara is developing solutions for environmental pollution monitoring. The uRADMonitor is a plug-and-play, low power, self contained radiation and air quality monitoring device, connected to a centralized server. While the pollution levels are measured and centralized automatically, the user can check the readings online or get relevant notifications by email.  You can back up the project on indiegogo.

Neveli from Cluj-Napoca enters the eHealth sector. It developed a digital healthcare platform that connects to activity trackers, smartwatches, scales, blood pressure monitors and other personal health tracking devices and offers a consistent way to analyse, monitor and manage the data.

Pocketo from Bucharest is building a development board which due to it's small size and power management solution is optimized for wearable prototyping. The board has a wifi module, a bluetooth low energy chip, an accelerometer, a vibration motor and a powerful micro-controller.

3Deva  from Buharest is creating VR hardware - mobile adapters, HMDs and ODTs. Their first products, 3Deva Vizor series are smartphone adapters that enable the visualization of the content in 3D. Viiwok is an ODT (omni-directional treadmill) which permits the player to use own body as a control controller to browse virtual environments.

Do you know any other start-ups in Romania playing in the IoT domain?