What Wavely does

Wavely is a French deep-tech company, founded in 2017 and headquartered in Villeneuve-d'Ascq (Lille metropolitan area), that builds AI-powered acoustic signal-processing solutions for industrial and infrastructure operators. The company originated as a spin-out from IEMN (Institut d'Électronique, de Microélectronique et de Nanotechnologie) and is led by CEO Nicolas Côté with technical co-founder Alexis Vlandas, a CNRS embedded-systems researcher. Its product stack combines Modul'Ear, a hardware acoustic sensor engineered for hazardous-environment deployment (ATEX-certified), with Jarvis, a cloud analytics platform that runs neural-network classifiers on the captured signals to detect, classify, and alert on defined acoustic events.

Wavely's solutions are applied to gas-leak detection, noise-pollution monitoring, security/perimeter surveillance, and predictive maintenance across process industries and municipal networks. Named customers include TotalEnergies, Orano, Air Liquide, GRDF (French gas distribution), and Citéos/Uby (Bouygues group), indicating traction among large energy, nuclear, chemical, and smart-city operators in France. The company employs 11 people and operates as a privately held SAS.

The business model combines hardware sale or lease of Modul'Ear sensors with recurring software/analytics revenue through the Jarvis platform, often structured around long-tail industrial-site deployments. Go-to-market is enterprise-direct, often initiated through technical validation pilots and scaled into multi-site rollouts. Regulatory positioning is a meaningful element: ATEX certification enables deployment in explosive atmospheres, and GDPR compliance supports municipal and EU public-sector customers. A Sonitus Systems partnership announced in August 2024 suggests an emerging channel-based expansion model beyond direct enterprise sales.

Name

Wavely

Legal name

Wavely SAS

Website

https://wavely.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Wavely is a French deep-tech company that builds AI-powered acoustic sensors and a cloud analytics platform for gas-leak detection, noise-pollution monitoring, security, and predictive maintenance, serving industrial and municipal operators such as TotalEnergies, Orano, Air Liquide, and GRDF.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Industrial Acoustic Monitoring

NAICS

Navigational, Measuring, Electromedical, and Control Instruments Manufacturing (33451), Other Measuring and Controlling Device Manufacturing (334519), Automatic Environmental Control Manufacturing for Residential, Commercial, and Appliance Use (334512)

SIC

Industrial Instruments For Measurement, Display, And Control (3823), Measuring & Controlling Devices, Nec (3829)

akta.pro primary industry

On-Device Speech & Audio AI (wake word, ASR, enhancement) (HDAAAJAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

Noise & Vibration Monitoring (Environmental/Community/Construction) (EUAHACAG), Active Leak Detection & Acoustic Surveying (Ground Mics, Correlators, Hydrophones) (EUANAKAA), Audible-Visual Alarms & Notification Devices (Sounders, horns, siren/strobe combos for industrial use) (IMAGAIAF)

Keywords

• Acoustic monitoring systems
• Industrial IoT sensors
• Gas leak detection
• Noise pollution monitoring
• Predictive maintenance

Headquarters

HQ city

Villeneuve

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Hardware Sensor Sales (Modul'Ear): Sale of connected acoustic sensors (Modul'Ear) including ATEX-certified versions for explosive environments. Sensors are offered with optional vibration and underwater acoustic modalities via external probe interfaces.
2. Software / Cloud Platform (Jarvis): Subscription-based cloud platform for sensor fleet management, data visualization, alerting, and custom AI model creation. Alerts are delivered via SMS or email.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Wavely sells the Modul'Ear connected acoustic sensor with embedded AI for 24/7 remote monitoring and the Jarvis cloud platform for fleet management, alerts, and custom AI model creation. The integrated solution measures, detects, localizes, and identifies sound events in real time across industrial, urban, environmental, and security use cases. Primary applications include fixed gas leak detection on industrial sites, urban noise pollution monitoring, security audio-surveillance, and acoustic-based predictive maintenance of rotating machinery.

Product overview

Wavely provides an acoustic intelligence solution combining the Modul'Ear hardware sensor with the Jarvis cloud platform. Modul'Ear is a connected IoT sensor that captures acoustic data (20Hz-96KHz omnidirectional microphone) and processes it locally with embedded neural models for sound recognition and anomaly detection. The Jarvis platform serves as the cloud-based management and visualization layer, enabling users to manage sensor fleets, configure alerts, visualize data in real-time, and create custom AI models through an annotation tool. The two products work together as a unified acoustic monitoring system for industrial, urban, and environmental applications.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Modul'Ear connected acoustic sensor A connected IoT acoustic sensor for 24/7 remote monitoring that measures, detects, locates, and identifies sound events in real time. Features an omnidirectional microphone (20Hz–96KHz), 135 dB SPL maximum input, embedded neural AI models for sound source recognition (17 source types, 87% F1 score, 2-second detection time), IP65 outdoor rating, and an ATEX-certified variant for explosive environments (e.g., H2, CH4 gas detection). Designed for industrial operators, energy companies, municipal authorities, and security teams requiring continuous remote acoustic intelligence in place of manual sound level measurements.
• Jarvis cloud platform A subscription-based cloud platform for sensor fleet management that enables real-time and deferred data visualization, alert configuration (SMS or email), annotation tooling, and the creation of custom AI models tailored to customer-specific sound events. Supports GDPR-compliant activation of recording for model retraining. Designed for the same enterprise operators that deploy Modul'Ear sensors across industrial, urban, and security applications.

Quantifiable outcome

• Gas leak detection precision of 96% with AI acoustic algorithms
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability4 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Sonitus SystemscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 21 August 2024Wavely announced a strategic partnership with Sonitus Systems, a global leader in environmental monitoring solutions present in more than 30 countries. The partnership leverages Wavely's AI-powered acoustic analysis capabilities to strengthen Sonitus Systems' industrial environmental monitoring applications. Sonitus Systems brings over 15 years of industry experience, a portfolio of more than 4,000 active projects, and a cloud platform serving over 13,000 global users processing millions of data points daily. The collaboration aims to deliver more comprehensive and intelligent solutions to customers worldwide, combining Sonitus Systems' environmental surveillance expertise with Wavely's acoustic and AI technology.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Sigicom: Swedish provider of remote construction-site noise and vibration monitoring systems (Infra C22 / C31 sensors and the IRIS cloud). Direct competitor in the construction and urban-noise compliance vertical that Wavely targets with Modul'Ear + Jarvis.
• ACOEM (01dB): ACOEM owns the 01dB brand, a long-standing specialist in environmental and industrial noise & vibration monitoring instruments and software. Closest direct peer to Wavely in continuous acoustic monitoring for construction, urban and industrial compliance.
• Casella Measurement: UK-based manufacturer of noise and vibration monitoring equipment (e.g., the CEL-6xx series and TUFF noise monitors) for occupational, environmental and construction applications. Overlaps with Wavely's noise-pollution and compliance use cases.
• Sonitus Systems: Global environmental acoustic monitoring provider with 4,000+ projects across 30+ countries. Now a strategic partner of Wavely, but historically a direct competitor in industrial and environmental acoustic surveillance — virtually identical customer profile and use cases.

Broad incumbents

• Dräger: German safety-technology incumbent manufacturing gas detection, respiratory protection and process safety equipment, with broad enterprise relationships in oil & gas and chemicals. Competes head-on in the gas-leak detection vertical that is Wavely's most commercial use case.
• Honeywell International: Global industrial conglomerate with a large gas-detection, process-safety and connected-worker portfolio (including fixed and portable methane/HC detectors). Competes in Wavely's enterprise industrial-monitoring accounts and could choose to bundle AI-acoustic capabilities into its existing offering.
• Brüel & Kjær (HBK): Global market leader in sound and vibration measurement instrumentation for industrial, environmental and R&D applications. Operates broadly across multiple categories (sensors, analyzers, software) and is the established incumbent Wavely competes against at the high end.

Emerging players

• Samotics: Dutch provider of AI-driven acoustic motor-condition monitoring (SAM4) for industrial pumps, fans and rotating equipment. Direct adjacency to Wavely's predictive maintenance use case, with a more focused product and larger Series-stage funding.
• Silentium Defence: UK-based passive acoustic surveillance and gunshot-detection technology provider. Adjacent to Wavely's 'audio-surveillance for security' application (360-degree coverage, privacy-by-design), but primarily serving defense and public-safety customers.
• Augury: AI-based machine-health and asset-reliability platform using vibration, temperature and acoustic sensors for industrial predictive maintenance. Competes with Wavely's Industry 4.0 / rotating-machinery acoustic monitoring application.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/WavelyFrance
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/wavely-france
• Xx.com/wavely_france

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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