YP Your Partner

What YP Your Partner does

YP Your Partner is a Dutch IoT solutions provider headquartered in Drachten, Netherlands, founded in 1987. The company designs and delivers custom Internet of Things systems for remote process monitoring, control, and optimization, with a vertical focus on municipal infrastructure — specifically infrastructure management (infrabeheer), sewage management (rioolbeheer), and water-purification management (zuiveringsbeheer). Its customer base consists of municipalities and infrastructure operators in the Netherlands, engaged via a consultative, sales-led motion backed by case studies, blog content, and direct contact through its website.

The company's technology center is the CARS platform — described as the heartbeat of its IoT offerings — which serves as a robust, scalable hub for monitoring, controlling, and optimizing connected industrial processes. CARS has been iterated over eight generations and is paired with a Dashboard user-interface component for visualization and control. The platform ingests structured time-series sensor data and supports use cases including remote monitoring, predictive maintenance, and process automation for water and sewage assets. The 'Droge voeten in Dokkum' case study (dry feet in Dokkum, a flood/water-management project) and a named municipal customer (SAM) illustrate the practical deployment profile.

YP Your Partner sells tailored IoT solutions rather than standardized products, with revenue mechanics described as subscription/recurring for IoT solutions and systems. Pricing is not publicly disclosed and is expected to be quote-based given the custom nature of deployments. No funding rounds, partnerships, M&A activity, patents, or leadership changes are disclosed in the available data, consistent with a privately held, bootstrapped, mature specialist operating in a narrow domestic niche.

Name

YP Your Partner

Legal name

Your Partner

Website

https://yp-yourpartner.nl

Company type

Private

Founded year

1987

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

YP Your Partner is a Netherlands-based IoT solutions provider, founded in 1987, that builds custom remote monitoring, control, and optimization systems on its CARS platform for municipalities and infrastructure operators managing water, sewage, and related assets.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Drachten

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. IoT Solutions and Systems: YP Your Partner generates revenue through custom IoT technology solutions tailored to client needs, including process monitoring, remote control, and optimization systems for infrastructure, sewage, and water treatment management.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

YP Your Partner develops and delivers custom Internet of Things (IoT) software solutions for remote process monitoring, control, and optimization. Its core offering is the CARS platform — a robust and scalable IoT platform, built on eight generations of experience — that enables municipalities and infrastructure operators to monitor, manage, and optimize water treatment, sewage, and infrastructure assets.

Product overview

YP Your Partner offers a unified IoT platform-based product portfolio centered around CARS (their core platform) complemented by a Dashboard interface. The company provides smart Internet of Things solutions that bring processes to life, enabling remote insight and reliable systems. Their solutions are customized technology offerings rather than standard products, focused on making processes smarter and more manageable across domains including infrastructure management, sewage management, and purification management.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• CARS: CARS is the beating heart of their IoT solutions: a robust and scalable platform for remote monitoring, control, and optimization of processes. Built on eight generations of experience.

Products and services

• CARS Platform Central IoT platform serving as the backbone of YP Your Partner's solutions. A robust and scalable platform that enables remote monitoring, control, and optimization of industrial processes for municipalities and infrastructure operators, built on eight generations of experience.

Quantifiable outcome

• Predictive maintenance enables detection of equipment failures before installations shut down

Named customers1 record

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability3 records

Feature1 record

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Xylem: Global water-technology provider spanning pumps, treatment, and digital solutions; overlaps with YP's municipal water customer base but at vastly larger scale.
• Aclara (Hubbell Utility Solutions): Smart infrastructure solutions for electric, gas, and water utilities, including AMI and IoT monitoring — comparable adjacent IoT platform for utilities.
• Itron: Large utility-focused IoT and metering company with significant water-utility product lines; broader portfolio but overlapping with YP's remote-monitoring use cases.
• Kamstrup: Smart metering and IoT solutions for water, heat, and electricity utilities — relevant broader incumbent in the same municipal-utility monitoring category.

Direct peers

• TaKaDu: Cloud-based water network monitoring and analytics SaaS for utilities; the closest analog to YP's CARS-led remote monitoring for water/sewage infrastructure.
• i2O Water: Provides smart water network monitoring, pressure management, and analytics — directly comparable to YP's municipal water-monitoring use cases.
• Primayer: Specialist in water network monitoring, leak detection, and pressure management — relevant for comparison with YP's predictive-maintenance-focused municipal deployments.
• Endress+Hauser: Global industrial process automation and instrumentation supplier with a strong water/wastewater vertical; comparable to YP's control and monitoring solutions at the infrastructure level.
• Hach (Danaher): Water-quality monitoring, analytics, and instrumentation primarily sold to municipal water utilities — a comparable adjacent capability set within YP's customer segment.
• HWM Global: Telemetry and monitoring solutions for water networks (leak detection, pressure, flow); overlaps with YP's remote-monitoring scope for municipal water operators.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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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