What Sigrenea does

Sigrenea is a French B2B IoT company specializing in digital waste management, headquartered in Orléans, France, and operating as a wholly-owned subsidiary of SUEZ Group. Founded approximately 15 years ago, the company serves municipalities (collectivités) and enterprises with connected sensor solutions that monitor waste containers in real time. Sigrenea states that more than 20 million inhabitants currently benefit from its deployments, with a claimed 30% reduction in CO2 emissions and consumption achieved through optimized collection routes.

The company's technology platform consists of five modular IoT solutions: S. MONITOR (remote fill-level sensing for voluntary drop-off points), S. PASS (container access control supporting incentive pricing), S. COMPACTOR (telemanagement of compactor status), S. TRACE (sorting quality tracking via sensors plus mobile agent capture), and S. PLACE (GPS-based geolocation and traceability of containers). These solutions combine hardware sensors deployed on container fleets with software dashboards, route-optimization tools, and mobile applications for collection crews, integrating into municipal Smart City frameworks.

Sigrenea operates a sales-led GTM, distributing through direct enterprise sales and SUEZ Group's established commercial channels. Revenue is generated via custom subscription pricing on multi-year contracts for integrated hardware-plus-software deployments. Customer logos span major French metropolises (Paris, Tours, Rennes, Lille, Dijon, Toulon, Béziers), waste management operators (Derichebourg, Nicollin, Semardel, Coved, Paprec), and large industrial enterprises (Airbus, Safran, Orange, Danone, Engie, Dalkia, Idex). Geographic focus is stated as France. No financial figures, headcount, patents, or certifications are publicly disclosed.

Name

Sigrenea

Legal name

SIGRENEA, Société par Actions Simplifiées

Website

https://sigrenea.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2009

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Sigrenea is a French B2B IoT subsidiary of SUEZ Group that provides connected sensor solutions and software platforms for digital waste management, serving municipalities and enterprises across France.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Waste Management IoT Software

NAICS

Waste Collection (5621), Navigational, Measuring, Electromedical, and Control Instruments Manufacturing (3345), Waste Collection (56211), Electronic and Precision Equipment Repair and Maintenance (81121)

SIC

Refuse Systems (4953), Industrial Instruments For Measurement, Display, And Control (3823), Sanitary Services (4950), Measuring & Controlling Devices, Nec (3829)

akta.pro primary industry

Waste Management & Smart Sanitation (Facilities) (HSAPAPAM)

akta.pro secondary industries

Compactor, Container & Roll-off Services (Rental, Service & Logistics) (EUAIAGAC), Multi-sensor condition monitoring tags (temp+humidity+shock+location) (TLAEALAI)

Keywords

• Waste management sensors
• Connected container monitoring
• IoT waste solutions
• Smart city waste management
• Waste collection optimization

Headquarters

HQ city

Orléans

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Supply Chain, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. IoT Sensor Hardware & Software Solutions: Sigrenea provides connected sensor solutions (S. MONITOR, S. PASS, S. COMPACTOR, S. TRACE, S. PLACE) that combine hardware sensors installed on waste containers with software platforms for data visualization, route optimization, and management. Revenue is generated through the sale and deployment of these integrated IoT solutions to municipalities and enterprises managing waste collection.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Sigrenea designs, supplies, and deploys connected sensor solutions and accompanying software platforms that monitor waste containers in real time. Its portfolio of five modular solutions — S. Monitor, S. Pass, S. Compactor, S. Trace, and S. Place — combines IoT sensors installed on bins, drop-off points, and compactors with a supervision platform that tracks fill levels, controls access, manages compaction, audits sorting quality, and geolocates equipment to optimize collection routes for municipalities and enterprises.

Product overview

Sigrenea is an expert in digital waste management, offering a modular suite of connected sensor solutions for municipalities and businesses. The product portfolio consists of five core solutions: S. Monitor (remote reading for waste drop-off points), S. Pass (access control with identification), S. Compactor (telemanagement for compactors), S. Trace (sorting quality tracking), and S. Place (real-time geolocation and traceability). Together, these solutions enable real-time monitoring, optimization of collection routes, reduction of overflow incidents, and improved waste management through connected sensors, data analytics, and mobile applications that feed into a central supervision platform.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• S. Monitor: Remote monitoring solution for voluntary drop-off points (bornes d'apport volontaire) - tele-relève solution
• S. Pass
• S. Compactor
• S. Trace
• S. Place

Products and services

• S. Monitor

Quantifiable outcome

• 30% reduction in CO2 emissions and consumption
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers20 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability3 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• SUEZcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSigrenea is a wholly-owned subsidiary of SUEZ Group. SUEZ provides the distribution network, brand recognition, and operational infrastructure for Sigrenea's digital waste management solutions. Sigrenea operates under SUEZ's sustainability and environmental commitments.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves10 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Geotab: Telematics and fleet-intelligence platform serving municipal and private fleets; can integrate container and route data and represents an adjacent competitor for fleet-aware waste-collection optimization.
• Samsara: Large IoT/fleet management platform with asset-tracking and sensor-monitoring capabilities that can be extended to waste-container use cases, representing a broad-based platform threat to specialized vendors like Sigrenea.
• Veolia: Global environmental services incumbent currently absorbing parts of SUEZ Group; operates overlapping digital-waste offerings as part of a much broader municipal-services portfolio and represents both a competitor and the new parent of Sigrenea's current channel.

Direct peers

• Ecube Labs: South Korea-based provider of Clean Cube solar-powered compacting bins with fill-level sensors and a CleanCityNetwork monitoring platform, overlapping with Sigrenea's compactor-telemanagement and container-monitoring offerings.
• Compology: US-based provider of camera-based container monitoring and route optimization for waste and recycling fleets, with comparable data collection and dispatch integration to Sigrenea's S. Place / S. Monitor suite.
• Sensoneo: Slovakia-headquartered provider of smart sensors and software for waste management, including fill-level monitoring, route optimization, and waste-sorting analytics—directly overlapping with Sigrenea's S. Monitor, S. Place, and S. Trace modules.
• Enevo: Finland-origin IoT sensor and analytics platform for waste container monitoring and collection-route optimization; competes head-to-head with Sigrenea in European municipal accounts.
• Bigbelly: US-based smart waste and recycling station manufacturer with integrated sensors, compaction, and a cloud management platform—directly comparable to Sigrenea's S. Monitor + S. Compactor stack.
• Nordsense: Denmark-based waste-monitoring sensor and analytics company with European municipal deployments, targeting the same fill-level and route-optimization use cases as Sigrenea.

Emerging players

• CIRCPRO: Emerging waste-data platform focused on recycling-rate measurement and circular-economy analytics; partial overlap with Sigrenea's S. Trace sorting-quality module.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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