About Us

Our vision and mission

We believe that information brings power.

Digital technologies should give that power back to the citizens to build sustainable, caring, and efficient cities.

Kentyou helps cities and innovators exploit digital innovations and build smarter urban environments.

WHO ARE WE?

Discover our team

Dr. Levent Gürgen

CEO

With a PhD on Data Management for sensor networks and years of experience at CEA, Levent is recognized as one of the leaders of the European IoT and Smart City research ecosystem.

Bertrand Copigneaux

COO

Bertrand spent 8 years as market and innovation analyst and coordinated several collaborative innovation projects. He also has entrepreneurship experience with 5 years as COO of a 3D simulation software start-up.

Timothy Ward

CTO

Tim is an experienced CTO and technology expert, he is in charge of strategic product planning and technical team oversight. Tim is also in the board of the directors of the IoT Expert Group in the OSGi Alliance, the core technology used by Kentyou.

Corporate History

Our Track Record

2020

Kentyou Creation

Kentyou is created as a company to develop a commercial offering on top of the Eclipse sensiNact platform

2018

International Projects with Korea and Japan

Kentyou team joins international collaboration projects: DECENTER (EU - Korea) and M-SEC (EU - Japan) demonstrating the use of sensiNact in new contexts and use cases.

2017

Large Scale Pilots: Smart Farming and Active Ageing

Kentyou team participates in European Large Scale Projects deployments: ACTIVAGE (Active Ageing) and IoF 2020 (Smart Farming).

BRAIN-IoT Project: Critical Water Infrastructures and Robotics

Kentyou team participates to the BRAIN-IoT project, using IoT on critical water infrastructures and robotics applications

2016

BigClouT Project: Big Data, Cloud and IoT for Smart Cities

Kentyou team coordinates the BigClouT EU-Japan project on BigData, Cloud, and IoT applications in Smart Cities

Wise-IoT Project: Smart Sky Station

Kentyou team participates to the Wise-IoT (EU - Korea) project

2014

FESTIVAL Project: Federation of Smart City testbeds

Kentyou team coordinates the FESTIVAL EU-Japan project gathering testbeds on Smart City, Smart Buildings, Smart Public Services and Participatory Sensing.

2013

First version of the sensiNact platform

A first proof of concept of the sensiNact platform is finalized, as a result of the BUTLER project

ClouT Project: Cloud of Things for Smart Cities

Kentyou team coordinates the ClouT EU-Japan project developing ``cloud of things`` concept in Smart City applications

2011

BUTLER Project - Research on sensiNact starts

The Kentyou team coordinates the BUTLER European project, starting the research on a horizontal IoT platform.

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