Emitu, Lda.

The Internet of Things promises to connect everything, but actually delivering a concrete IoT project remains a long and complex journey. Between hardware selection, protocol integration, management software development, and production deployment, an IoT project can take months and require a mix of heterogeneous skills that are hard to assemble in a single team. The result is that many companies that would like to use IoT to monitor their processes or devices find themselves blocked by the technical complexity of the path. Emitu addressed this problem with a low-code framework that promises to reduce implementation times tenfold compared to conventional approaches. The product is hardware-agnostic and use-case-agnostic: it is not designed for a specific sector but as flexible infrastructure that adapts to different industrial and application contexts. Pre-configured smart templates further accelerate the starting point: instead of beginning with a blank slate, the client can adapt already-validated templates to their specific use case. The business model is B2B, targeting companies and hardware partners that want to integrate monitoring, data collection, and connectivity capabilities into their devices, plants, or physical processes without having to build everything from scratch. This includes both companies wanting to digitalise their productive assets and hardware partners wanting to add IoT capabilities to their products to make them more competitive. At a time when industrial digitalisation is considered a strategic priority across Europe, and when the ability to collect and analyse real-time data from physical processes is a tangible competitive advantage, having a platform that radically lowers the technical barrier to IoT adoption carries real value. Emitu positions itself as an enabler of this transition, making IoT accessible even to organisations that do not have the resources to build specialised internal competencies.