The company leading the project is an advanced optical sensor systems manufacturer which also offers engineering services particularly within the power industry. They provide real-time monitoring, predictive maintenance, and fault prevention for critical assets.
The project proposed will contribute to exploit the potential of photonics for a digital, green and healthy future by:
1. Increasing the efficiency of photonic sensors, surpassing existing technologies in aspects such as energy consumption, data acquisition and processing speed, as well as measurement accuracy.
2. Reducing the size, weight, or footprint of the sensors and quantify advancements over current tecnologies
3. Reducing manufacturing costs and increasing resource-efficiency, while also enhancing reliability and durability of the targeted sensor systems.

The final application to be developed would be:
• Remote diagnosis of highly critical assets
• Permanent diagnosis of security system regarding electrical supply.

The company is looking for partners under any of the following profiles:
• Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and Operators in the health, aeronautical, food, and electrical sectors.
• Silicon Photonics technological development centers or PICs.
• Foundries with experience in complex PICs.
• Companies with experience in developing APIs, software, or Artificial Intelligence for the above sectors.
Advantages and innovation
The scope of this call focuses on the advancement and application of photonics sensor technologies and their integration into multimodal systems. The proposal for which the company is looking for partners will address the development of sensor technologies and their validation through trials in realistic use cases.
In addition, the proposal will focus on developing and integrating algorithms designed to enhance the processing capabilities and decision-making accuracy of photonic sensors. These algorithms may help to optimize the interpretation of complex sensor data, enable real-time analytics, ambient intelligenceand adaptive responses in dynamic environaments.
Activities are expected to start at TRL 3 and achieve TRL 7 by the end of the project.
Technical Specification or Expertise Sought
The partner sough must have expertise multi-modal sensors as well as employing sensor fusion and machine learning approaches for the analysis of sensor data. They should have knowledge and background experience in different technology approaches, i.e. sensor modalities, of which at least one must be photonic from the following areas:
• Integrated photonic solutions
• Communication fiber sensing
• Bio- and medical sensing and/or imaging  

Framework program
Horizon Europe
Call title and identifier
HORIZON-CL4-2025-04-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01: Advanced sensor technologies and multimodal sensor integration for multiple application domains (IA) (Photonics Partnership)
Submission and evaluation scheme
Anticipated project budget
EUR 5.00 Million
Coordinator required
No
Deadline for EoI
30/06/2025
Deadline of the call
31/12/2025