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Lund, 8 October 2026. Sensative has signed an agreement with Hemsö, Sweden’s leading owner of social infrastructure properties, to roll out the Yggio data platform across Hemsö’s Swedish property portfolio. Hemsö’s digitalisation programme aims at measurable business value of at least SEK 50 per square metre and year by 2030, and that requires collecting and using data independently of supplier and technical solution. Yggio gathers data from sensors, energy meters and building control systems on one vendor-independent platform, giving property managers, energy staff and technicians the same real-time picture: deviations are spotted early, operations optimised, and the effect of each measure followed up. The agreement is signed directly between Hemsö and Sensative, so the platform can be adapted over time to Hemsö’s workflows, systems and reporting requirements. Rollout began before the summer of 2026 and scales up through the autumn; installations run across Sweden until 2028. Hemsö owns, manages and develops schools, elderly care homes, healthcare properties and premises for the justice system: 483 properties with a value of about SEK 90 billion in Sweden, Finland and Germany. The full release in Swedish is on Mynewsdesk.

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London North Eastern Railway has announced the roll-out of more than 36,000 SeatSense sensors across its Azuma fleet. The radar sensors (a first for rail, battery-powered and fitted without cabling) detect seat and wheelchair-space occupancy with 98% accuracy, so passengers see live availability on every service instead of reservation-only indicators, and LNER can forecast demand and plan capacity on real usage. Read LNER’s own announcement: Smart sensors to make finding a seat easier on LNER services.

Sensative AB and TAGGR AB have agreed to cooperate on IoT deployment in critical infrastructure and industrial settings such as airports, logistics hubs and construction sites, where large facility investments sit next to under-digitised ground-level assets. TAGGR digitises machinery, equipment and tools with ruggedised hardware and asset-intelligence software for construction, logistics, rental and infrastructure customers. Combined with Yggio as the data hub that orchestrates sensors, networks and AI models, the two companies aim at productised applications that take customers from monitoring to orchestration: faster deployment through self-healing mesh networks and over-the-air app provisioning, predictive maintenance and anomaly detection to prevent downtime, and subscription-based solutions that deliver value in weeks rather than years.

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Lund and Berlin, 28 November 2024. Sensative, the FIWARE Foundation and ProptechOS have formed a strategic collaboration to align their data models and address the data fragmentation that holds back smart cities and real estate. FIWARE and RealEstateCore are working with the three companies to align their ontologies, so that FIWARE platforms using the NGSI v2 and NGSI-LD APIs can work with RealEstateCore and Brick Schema. The outcome is released under an open licence so that many participants can adopt and develop it. Chandra Challagonda, CEO of the FIWARE Foundation, Erik Wallin, Chief Ecosystem Officer of ProptechOS and one of the architects behind RealEstateCore, and Mats Pettersson, CTO of Sensative, describe the aim in the same terms: connect the buildings with the smart city, break down the silos and enable true interoperability.

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Sensative has won the tender to supply Yggio across the Västra Götaland Region as a region-wide, horizontal platform for IoT, digital transformation and data sharing, delivered as a platform-as-a-service with consulting support. The agreement covers 47 cities and a further 86 organisations, 133 in all. Among them are 30 real estate companies, 22 energy companies and three water operators. The intended uses range from smart city infrastructure and building management, including CSRD data collection, to smart grids, environmental monitoring, asset tracking, public safety, healthcare and social services. Mats Pettersson, CTO, said the region is on the front foot in empowering its cities and organisations to collaborate and innovate; Johan Frilund, CEO, that in an increasingly fragmented world the technology fosters collective learning and adaptation.

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Smarta byar (Smart Villages) and Sensative announced a partnership that makes Veberöd in Skåne a proving ground for Sensative’s IoT solutions: demanding stakeholders, a varied geography and a need for cost-effective solutions that combine many sensor types. Sensative becomes a member of Smarta byar, and Smarta byar a member of the Open IoT Labs FIWARE iHub operated by Sensative. Applications already running in the village include smart trees that report their water needs, air quality and noise monitoring, traffic-flow and speeding monitoring with LoRa, AI and radar, smart lamp posts and an alarm system that raised 25 alarms in nine weeks. Mats Pettersson, CTO, said the village’s drive for operational excellence is something an airport management team would respect; Jan Malmgren of Smarta byar that the partnership is with a company that has the expertise to deliver solutions that meet their exacting requirements. A Swedish release on the same partnership was issued on 13 November 2024.

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Sensative has won the procurement and signed the agreement to deliver Yggio as a cloud platform-as-a-service, with consulting services, to the whole county of Västra Götaland: 47 cities, 30 property companies, 22 energy companies, three water and wastewater companies and other regional actors, 133 parties in all. The platform supports digitalisation, automation and data analysis across smart city applications such as street lighting, traffic, city logistics and parking; property applications such as energy optimisation, CSRD sustainability reporting and smart offices; energy and water metering, distribution grids and storage; and environmental monitoring of air, water and waste. Johan Frilund, CEO, said Västra Götaland is taking an important step forward by enabling collaboration and innovation, with control over the system, ownership of the data and the freedom to add services, sensors or control systems from Sensative or third parties. Issued in Swedish.

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Sensative and Combain, a geolocation provider based in Lund and Palo Alto with one of the world’s largest positioning databases, announced a strategic collaboration on AI-powered indoor and outdoor location. Combain’s neural network, trained on ground-truth locations, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth identifiers and signal strength, reduces the median error compared with traditional trilateration; the indoor service complements the GPS and BeiDou positioning on Sensative’s LoRaWAN devices, and the combined service is offered through Yggio. The product highlighted was Square Tracker Xtreme, a compact indoor and outdoor LoRaWAN asset tracker with extended battery life, already in pilot projects with customers moving towards large-scale deployment. Johan Frilund, CEO of Sensative, and Björn Lindquist, CEO of Combain, both describe the joint solution as a milestone for indoor location in tracking and asset management.

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Lund, 25 May 2023. At Sensative AB’s annual general meeting on 16 May 2023, Torbjörn Smith was elected chairman of the board. A long-standing shareholder, he brings extensive international experience from telecom and IT and from boards of large companies as well as start-ups and scale-ups in Sweden and New Zealand. Bengt Lundgren, who recently became a shareholder, joins the board; he built the IT companies Retea, Cygate and Conscia and has spent recent years as a professional board member. CEO Johan Frilund and co-founder and CTO/CPO Mats Pettersson were re-elected. Einar Lindquist, the former chairman, declined re-election and was thanked for his commitment and contributions. Issued in Swedish.

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Lund, 15 May 2023. Sensative AB has appointed Johan Frilund as its new CEO to lead the company’s next phase, focused on profitability and scaling. He has held senior executive positions in technology and growth companies, as President of AddSecure Smart Transport AB and CEO of the listed Sensys Traffic AB, now Sensys Gatso Group, with a record in marketing and sales in technology-intensive industries and in building and leading teams. He succeeds co-founder Mats Pettersson, who stays with the company as CTO/CPO with responsibility for product development, technology vision and innovation. Frilund said he was thrilled to join Sensative at such an exciting time in its development; Pettersson that he was pleased to hand over the leadership to Johan.

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Sensative has received loan financing from Nefco, the Nordic Green Bank founded in 1990 by the five Nordic countries to finance the initial scale-up of Nordic green solutions on global markets. The financing supports the continued scale-up of Sensative’s operations in Asia, Europe and North America, with a particular focus on North America, where the company already had high-profile customers, especially in Canada. At the time more than 50 municipal customers used Yggio for smart city, building, energy and water applications, and more than 200,000 of Sensative’s patented ultra-thin sensors had been delivered. Mats Pettersson, then CEO, pointed to the effect of seemingly small changes in operations: a real estate customer estimated energy savings of 4 % for every 1 °C reduction in heating, several million euros a year across its portfolio. Mikael Reims, Vice President Origination at Nefco, called enabling technologies like Sensative’s an essential part of the green transition. In 2021 Sensative had received a grant from Nopef, a Nefco-managed fund, for its North American expansion. A Swedish version was issued the same day.

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City Network, the European cloud provider and OpenStack specialist with more than 20 data centres and ISO 9001, 14001, 27001, 27010, 27013, 27017 and 27018 certifications, and Sensative announced a partnership to offer Yggio as a cloud service from City Network’s European cloud zones. Cities, municipalities and the real estate industry get one interface for managing many IoT solutions while sensitive sensor data stays under European data legislation; City Network’s Compliant Cloud is built for the auditing, data handling and security requirements of Basel, Solvency and GDPR. Johan Christenson, founder of City Network and VP Innovation, said the partnership gives customers the freedom to base their IoT and digitalisation on personal integrity; Mats Pettersson, then CEO of Sensative, that simplifying the management of connected services must not come at the cost of data law or integrity. A Swedish version was issued the same day.

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Sensative and Actility, with input from WMW, released an integrated LoRaWAN solution for desk occupancy and office-space optimisation as workers returned after Covid-19. Sensative supplies the Strips Presence sensors and the Yggio platform: active infrared detects whether a desk is occupied, the sensor reports over LoRaWAN with a range of up to 10 km, runs up to ten years on its battery and is thin enough to be installed almost invisibly with its adhesive backing. The +Switch slider lets cleaning staff record that a desk has been disinfected, and a desk shows “pending cleaning” after a person leaves rather than simply “empty”. Actility provides the ThingPark connectivity platform and hosts an evaluation starter kit on ThingPark Market; WMW provides the dashboard with office-space data, presence KPIs and alarms. At the time Sensative had deployed more than 150,000 Strips worldwide.

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Sensative, Lindbäcks Bygg and PiteEnergi started a project that monitors modular buildings all the way from production and transport to assembly on site. Lindbäcks builds multi-dwelling houses industrially, with modules produced in its factory in Piteå; sensors built into the frames track moisture so problems can be found and handled earlier, and the data is collected and shared in real time through Sensative’s cloud service. PiteEnergi operates the LoRaWAN sensor network. Lars Oscarsson, product developer at Lindbäcks, said the technology gives full control over a module wherever it is, in the Piteå factory or on a truck somewhere in Sweden. Mats Pettersson, then CEO of Sensative, noted that the project develops a new application for the company’s water leak sensor, of which Sensative had by then delivered 150,000 sensors worldwide. Issued in Swedish.

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Frost & Sullivan recognised Sensative with its 2021 Europe Technology Innovation Leadership Award for the IoT sensors market, for the company’s portfolio of proven results, technology and overall performance. The analysts singled out the combination of the Yggio platform and the Strips sensors for temperature, leak and humidity monitoring, the revenue success and the performance of the solution through the pandemic, and, as a critical differentiator, that Sensative returns data ownership to the customer. Samantha Fisher, Best Practices Research Analyst at Frost & Sullivan, said Yggio and Strips form an unbeatable IoT duo that paves the way for smart ecosystems across cities, municipalities, buildings and homes. Mats Pettersson, then CEO, said more and more customers were realising the disruptive benefits of Yggio, with a strong position in Sweden for the platform and Strips well established globally.

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Part two of Sensative’s series A share issue raised SEK 29 million, about EUR 2.8 million, led by the Antwerp-based Aconterra Fund with existing investors following. The capital goes to accelerating sales of the Yggio platform and to developing several new sensors. Ron Schuermans, founding partner of Aconterra, and Nicolas Hassbjer, founder and former CEO of HMS Networks and an existing investor, joined the board. At the time Yggio was in use with a number of Swedish cities and city networks, energy, water and wastewater companies and real estate firms, and in 2020 Sensative had launched seven new LoRaWAN and Z-Wave Strips sensors for doors and windows, water leakage, light, temperature, humidity, material moisture and desk occupancy. A Swedish version was issued the same day.

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Precise Biometrics, the Nasdaq Stockholm-listed identification software company with offices in Lund, Potsdam NY and Shanghai, and Sensative signed a collaboration agreement to integrate Precise YOUNiQ with Yggio. YOUNiQ combines face recognition with access control for convenient and secure facility access; through Yggio the technology becomes available for smart buildings, smart cities and smart infrastructure, and the partnership covers physical access as well as access to IoT data, services and devices. Stefan K. Persson, CEO of Precise, called the collaboration a great example of its strategy to partner with modern and innovative platform providers; Mats Pettersson, then CEO of Sensative, said it opens up biometric identification for access control. A Swedish version was issued the same day.

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