Sensative
Sensative AB is a Lund-based Swedish IoT company that sells the Yggio platform and patented ultra-thin LoRaWAN/Z-Wave sensors to municipalities, real estate firms, utilities, and transportation operators for smart building and smart city deployments.
- Company typePrivate
- Founded2013
- HeadquartersLund, Sweden
- Headcount11–50
- GTM typeB2B
- OfferingSoftware
What Sensative does
Sensative AB is a Swedish IoT company founded in 2013 and headquartered in Lund, Sweden, that sells a proprietary hardware-plus-software stack for smart buildings, smart cities, transportation, and utilities. Its product portfolio centers on the Yggio IoT platform — a horizontal, standards-based orchestration layer that connects devices across LoRaWAN, Z-Wave, and legacy OT systems via a unified API, Ratatosk context broker, and Zero Trust security architecture. Complementing the platform is the patented Strips sensor family (ultra-thin LoRaWAN and Z-Wave sensors with a claimed 10-year battery life), plus the SeatSense occupancy solution, IoT Starter Kits, and downloadable per-use-case sensor apps. The company holds patents on its elongated wireless sensor design across Sweden, Europe, and the United States.
The business generates revenue through three streams: hardware sales of proprietary sensors, recurring subscription and white-label licensing of the Yggio platform (including for service partners), and professional services for end-to-end IoT deployment. Pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed. Go-to-market combines enterprise field sales targeting municipalities, real estate firms, and utilities with a channel partner program, regional distributors, and a direct e-commerce shop for smaller orders. Named enterprise and government customers include Cummins, Castellum, Kraftringen, LNER, VA SYD, and Sally-R, with the company reporting nearly half a million sensors deployed across hundreds of customers worldwide. Strategic positioning emphasizes EU regulatory compliance (Data Act, GDPR, AI Act, Cybersecurity Act), FIWARE Gold Partner status, and data-ontology alignment with RealEstateCore and Brick Schema.
Sensative firmographics
Firmographics- Name
- Sensative
- Legal name
- Sensative AB
- Website
- https://sensative.com
- Company type
- Private
- Founded year
- 2013
- Operating status
- Operating
- Headcount range
- 11–50 employees
- Short description
- Sensative AB is a Lund-based Swedish IoT company that sells the Yggio platform and patented ultra-thin LoRaWAN/Z-Wave sensors to municipalities, real estate firms, utilities, and transportation operators for smart building and smart city deployments.
- Ownership category
- akta.pro rank
Sensative industry classification
Industry- Product category
- IoT Platform & Smart Sensors
- NAICS
- Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (5182)
- SIC
- Measuring & Controlling Devices, Nec (3829), Communications Equipment, Nec (3669), Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)
- akta.pro primary industry
- Waste Management & Smart Sanitation (Facilities) (HSAPAPAM)
Keywords
Where Sensative is headquartered
LocationHeadquarters
- HQ city
- Lund
- HQ country
- Sweden
- HQ region
- Europe
Offices1 record
Markets served
Sensative business model
Business model- GTM type
- B2B
- Offering type
- Software
- Cost components
- Technology or R&D, Supply Chain, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations
Revenue model
- IoT Sensors (Hardware): Sale of proprietary ultra-thin sensors (Strips, Puck, Prism, Square) for LoRaWAN and Z-Wave protocols. Sensors designed in Sweden with 10-year battery life.
- Yggio IoT Platform: Platform licensing and subscription for device management, data orchestration, and interoperability. Offers white-label options for service providers.
- Professional Services: End-to-end IoT consulting and implementation services leveraging deep industry expertise across PropTech, municipalities, transportation, utilities, and agriculture.
- IoT Starter Kits: Pre-packaged solutions for specific use cases including water leak risk management, energy cost reduction, office space optimization, and smart city applications.
Pricing tiers
| Model | Billing | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Subscription | Annual | IoT Starter Kits available for specific use cases |
Go-to-market motion2 records
Distribution channels4 records
Marketing channels5 records
Sensative product offering
Product offeringCore offering
Sensative provides a horizontal IoT integration platform (Yggio) combined with proprietary ultra-thin sensors for LoRaWAN and Z-Wave protocols, enabling interoperability across devices, vendors, and protocols for smart buildings, cities, and PropTech applications. The platform supports cloud, edge, or hybrid edge-cloud deployment and offers white-label options for service providers. Professional services and pre-packaged IoT starter kits round out the offering.
Product overview
Sensative offers a platform-plus-modules architecture centered on the Yggio IoT platform, which functions as a horizontal device management and orchestration layer connecting sensors and systems across any protocol (LoRaWAN, Z-Wave, legacy OT systems). The product portfolio includes the Strips sensor family (LoRaWAN variants: Strips, Puck, Prism, Square; Z-Wave variants: Guard 800, Drip 800), the SeatSense occupancy solution, downloadable sensor apps, and IoT Starter Kits for specific use cases. Supporting components include the Ratatosk context broker, Battery Calculator tool, and Professional Services. The company holds patents for its elongated wireless sensor assembly technology.
Differentiator
Problem solved
Functional benefit
Brands
- Yggio: IoT platform for smart cities and PropTech enabling interoperability across devices, vendors, and protocols with data sovereignty and zero-trust architecture
- Strips
- SeatSense
Products and services
- Yggio IoT Platform A horizontal IoT integration platform that unifies devices across any protocol (LoRaWAN, Z-Wave, legacy systems) into one ecosystem, functioning as the orchestration and device management OS layer for smart buildings, cities, homes, agriculture, and ships with real-time data visualization and dashboards.
- Strips LoRaWAN Sensors Ultra-thin sensors for LoRaWAN networks designed in Sweden with 10-year battery life, long range, and discreet durable design. Includes Strips, Puck, Prism, and Square form factor variants with multi-functional downloadable apps for air quality, tracking, radar occupancy, proximity detection, desk/seat occupancy, water leakage, oil spill, impact analysis, open/close monitoring, and intrusion detection.
- Strips Z-Wave Sensors Ultra-thin sensors for Z-Wave networks including Strips Guard 800 for security/intrusion detection and Strips Drip 800 for water leak detection, with 10-year battery life and discreet durable design.
- SeatSense Seat occupancy detection solution for rail industry and office space optimization, providing up to 99% certainty of seat occupancy for transportation and building operators.
- IoT Starter Kits Pre-packaged IoT solutions for specific use cases including water leak risk management, energy cost reduction, office space ROI optimization, and smart city applications.
- Professional Services End-to-end IoT consulting and implementation services leveraging deep industry expertise across PropTech, municipalities, transportation, utilities, and agriculture sectors for tailored solution development.
Quantifiable outcome
- Energy cost improvement: 10-25%
- +4 more outcomes
Companies that use Sensative
Customer profileNamed customers6 records
Segments5 records
Ideal customer profiles5 records
Sensative technology and API
TechnologyTechnology focussed Yes
API detail
- Has API
- No
- API docs
- API detail
Core technology
AI maturity
App detail
Integration4 records
AI capability2 records
Feature8 records
Sensative partnerships and signals
Strategic signalPartnerships
Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.
- FIWARE FoundationcoreCollaboration to align data models and address data fragmentation in smart city and real estate sectors. Yggio platform compatible with FIWARE NGSI.v2 and NGSI-LD standard APIs. Partnership aims to enable seamless data exchange between platforms and foster greater digital collaboration across ecosystems.
- ProptechOScoreStrategic collaboration with ProptechOS and RealEstateCore to align data ontologies. Partnership enables FIWARE platforms to be compatible with RealEstateCore and Brick Schema, creating interoperability between real estate-focused platforms and smart city platforms.
- CombaincoreStrategic collaboration for AI-powered seamless indoor/outdoor location solutions. Combain's AI algorithms and deep learning techniques complement Sensative's LoRaWAN devices' GPS/Beidou functionality, providing enhanced indoor positioning for Yggio DiMS IoT platform. Partnership focuses on cross-promotion and lead generation in positioning, tracking, and asset management markets.
- Future by LundcoreHorizon project Elaborator with 38 European partners and 12 cities. Yggio selected as primary platform for managing traffic data. Peter Bårmann from Sensative leads the group for data collection, transformation, storage, and sharing.
- AgendexminorPartnership to create sustainable IoT solutions for organizations working with Agenda 2030 (UN Sustainable Development Goals).
- Beijer ElectronicsminorCollaboration for smart cities and buildings solutions. Joint solutions presented for sustainable urban environments.
- ActilityminorJoint webinar on Building Optimized Working Conditions, presenting IoT solution for office space utilization.
Scale indicators7 records
Recent moves7 records
Expansion highlights6 records
Sensative competitors and assessment
Company assessmentDirect peers
- Actility: French LoRaWAN IoT connectivity and platform provider (ThingPark) serving smart buildings, smart cities, and asset tracking. Directly comparable to Sensative's combination of LoRaWAN infrastructure and IoT device-management platform for enterprise and municipal customers.
- Disruptive Technologies: Norwegian wireless sensor company known for its small-form-factor sensors with long battery life. Closest product peer to Sensative's Strips sensor family, with overlapping use cases in smart buildings, occupancy, and leak detection.
- Everynet: Global LoRaWAN network operator offering IoT connectivity and managed services for enterprise and smart-city deployments. Comparable in providing the LoRaWAN connectivity layer that underpins IoT use cases similar to Sensative's.
- Loriot: Swiss LoRaWAN network server and IoT platform vendor serving enterprise customers across smart buildings, cities, and utilities. Directly comparable to Sensative's Yggio platform in providing LoRaWAN device management and orchestration.
- Kerlink: French provider of LoRaWAN gateways, network servers, and end-to-end IoT solutions for smart cities, smart buildings, and asset tracking. Comparable hardware-and-platform IoT stack targeting similar enterprise and public-sector buyers as Sensative.
Broad incumbents
- Siemens MindSphere: Siemens's industrial IoT platform (now Insights Hub) offering device management, analytics, and digital twins for industrial and building customers. A larger incumbent with overlapping IoT platform capabilities but a broader industrial focus than Sensative's PropTech/smart-city specialization.
- Bosch IoT: Bosch's IoT platform and suite of connected sensor/actuator products for buildings, mobility, and industry. Comparable to Sensative in combining IoT hardware with a cloud platform, but with vastly larger scale and a broader portfolio.
- PTC ThingWorx: Enterprise IoT platform for industrial and connected-product use cases, offering device management, analytics, and AR overlays. Comparable in offering a horizontal IoT platform with deep enterprise features but operating at much larger scale and breadth than Sensative.
Emerging players
- Tibbo Systems: Provider of an IoT platform for building automation and smart infrastructure, with overlapping use cases in HVAC, lighting, and occupancy monitoring. A more focused PropTech/smart-building peer to Sensative's Yggio-based solutions.
- EnOcean: German supplier of battery-less and energy-harvesting wireless sensors for smart buildings, primarily using EnOcean and BLE protocols. Comparable in providing low-power wireless sensors for building automation, but with a different protocol approach than Sensative's LoRaWAN/Z-Wave focus.
Market position
Strengths5 records
Weaknesses5 records
Competitive moat4 records
Key risks6 records
Key highlights7 records
Customer concentration
Sensative social profiles
Digital presenceSensative compliance and trust
Trust signalCompliance3 records
Sensative financial estimates
Financial estimateRevenue estimate
Valuation estimate
Sensative leadership team
Management profileNumber of profiles
Profiles7 records
Sensative funding detail
Funding detailFunding overview
Funding rounds28 records
Investors1 record
Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →
Sensative M&A and investment
M&A and investmentM&A
Investments
M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →
Frequently asked questions about Sensative
What does Sensative do?
Sensative provides a horizontal IoT integration platform (Yggio) combined with proprietary ultra-thin sensors for LoRaWAN and Z-Wave protocols, enabling interoperability across devices, vendors, and protocols for smart buildings, cities, and PropTech applications. The platform supports cloud, edge, or hybrid edge-cloud deployment and offers white-label options for service providers. Professional services and pre-packaged IoT starter kits round out the offering.
Is Sensative a public or private company?
Sensative is a private company. It is classified as venture growth investor backed and is currently operating.
When was Sensative founded?
Sensative was founded in 2013. It employs 11 to 50 people.
Where is Sensative based?
Sensative is headquartered in Lund, Sweden, in the Europe region.
How does Sensative make money?
Four revenue lines are on record. IoT Sensors (Hardware) is the primary driver. The others are yggio IoT Platform, professional Services and ioT Starter Kits.
Who are Sensative's main competitors?
Direct peers on record are Actility, Disruptive Technologies, Everynet, Loriot and Kerlink. Broad incumbents are Siemens MindSphere, Bosch IoT and PTC ThingWorx. Emerging players are Tibbo Systems and EnOcean.
Does Sensative have an API?
No public API is recorded for Sensative.
What industry is Sensative in?
Sensative's product category is IoT Platform & Smart Sensors. Its primary akta.pro industry code is HSAPAPAM, Waste Management & Smart Sanitation (Facilities). Its NAICS code is 54151 and its SIC code is 3829.