Background

Established: 2003-02-12

Projects & Missions: Farmtopia (Horizon Europe): Empower small farms with digital technologies. QuantiFarm (Horizon Europe): EO-powered smart farming services for various crops. ACROSS (EuroHPC JU): Platform combining HPC, Big Data & Al technologies, to support applications in aeronautics, energy & climate/weather. ScaleAgData (Horizon Europe): Monitoring of agri-environmental conditions. Ploutos (H2020): EO-powered smart farming services for various crops. Tools4CAP (Horizon Europe): Design, implementation, and monitoring of the CAP. NIVA (H2020): Integrated Administration and Control System. E-SHAPE (H2020): EO and cloud capabilities building services for decision-makers, citizens, the industry and researchers. Sense (LIFE): Demonstrates the benefits of EO and IoT-based Smart Farming to the environment. SmartAgriHubs (H2020): Accelerating the digital transformation of the European agrifood sector. IoF2020 (H2020): Adoption of IoT in the agrifood sector across Europe. ACRITAS (si-Cluster): Apps combining satellite and geospatial data for the agricultural sector. EURO-VO Registry (ESA).

Key Customers: NEUROPUBLIC serves a diverse customer base across the public sector, agriculture and the European space ecosystem, translating Earth Observation and geospatial technologies into operational services. Key space- and EO-related customers and user groups include: - European Space Agency (ESA) – through contracted R&D and downstream Earth Observation activities focused on the development and operational exploitation of satellite-enabled services for agriculture. - Independent Authority for Public Revenue (ex. Hellenic Paying Agency for the Common Agricultural Policy (OPEKEPE)) and other Greek public-sector bodies – through large-scale information systems and geospatial services supporting CAP implementation, agricultural monitoring, eligibility controls and decision-making. - Agricultural cooperatives, producer organisations and agrifood enterprises – using EO-, IoT- and data-driven Smart Farming services for crop monitoring, irrigation, fertilisation and crop-protection decision support. - Farmers and agricultural advisors – more than 18,000 farmers across Greece, Cyprus, Poland, Portugal and Spain have been supported through the gaiasense Smart Farming ecosystem. - Research, innovation and institutional users – European and national organisations collaborating with NEUROPUBLIC in the validation, demonstration and uptake of EO-based agricultural and environmental services. This customer base provides NEUROPUBLIC with a direct pathway from satellite and geospatial data to operational deployment, validation and large-scale end-user uptake, particularly in agriculture and CAP-related applications.

Affiliations/Memberships: NEUROPUBLIC maintains an active presence in key European and national networks connecting "Earth Observation, space applications, IoT, Big Data and emerging digital technologies". Its main space- and EO-related affiliations include: - "European Association of Remote Sensing Companies (EARSC)" – NEUROPUBLIC is a long-standing member of Europe’s leading industry association representing companies providing Earth Observation products and services, strengthening its links with the European downstream space ecosystem. - "si-Cluster – Hellenic Space Technologies and Applications Cluster" – member of the Greek industrial innovation cluster dedicated to space technologies and applications, with particular relevance to Earth Observation, GNSS and downstream services. NEUROPUBLIC has participated in collaborative EO activities within the cluster, including applications combining satellite imagery with geospatial and agricultural data. - AgCluster – Greek Agricultural Technology Cluster – participation in Greece’s agri-tech innovation ecosystem, facilitating cooperation between technology providers, research organisations and agrifood actors and supporting the uptake of EO, IoT and data-driven solutions in agriculture. - "Alliance for IoT and Edge Computing Innovation (AIOTI)" – participation supporting the integration of IoT and edge technologies with satellite and geospatial information, particularly for large-scale environmental and agricultural monitoring. - "Big Data Value Association (BDVA)" – connecting NEUROPUBLIC with the European data, AI and analytics ecosystem and supporting the development of data-intensive services combining EO, IoT and domain-specific datasets. - "Hellenic Emerging Technologies Industry Association (HETiA)" – participation in the Greek ecosystem for advanced and emerging technologies, providing links to companies and research actors active across digital, electronics and high-tech domains. Beyond formal memberships, NEUROPUBLIC has a "long-standing engagement with the European Space Agency (ESA) and EU Research & Innovation programmes", participating in collaborative projects and initiatives focused on Earth Observation, satellite-data exploitation, Smart Farming and the transformation of space-derived information into operational downstream services.

Facilities: NEUROPUBLIC operates a comprehensive set of "digital, IoT, Earth Observation and manufacturing infrastructures" supporting the development, deployment and operational validation of space-enabled services. The company operates from "two privately owned facilities in Piraeus, Greece", including the "gaiasense HUB", a dedicated facility of more than "3,400 m²" hosting R&D, engineering, production, testing and collaborative activities related to Smart Farming, IoT and data-driven agriculture. A key asset is NEUROPUBLIC’s "proprietary Cloud and Data Centre infrastructure", supporting large-scale ingestion, storage, processing and analysis of Earth Observation, IoT, geospatial and agricultural datasets. The infrastructure provides more than "1,250 CPU cores, 10 TB of RAM and approximately 500 TB of storage", together with redundant telecommunications, backup and business-continuity mechanisms and continuous technical monitoring. It provides the computational backbone for operational EO processing, advanced analytics, AI/ML applications and large-scale digital services. NEUROPUBLIC also operates an "Embedded Systems & IoT R&D laboratory and an in-house automated electronics manufacturing and testing line", allowing the company to design, prototype, manufacture, configure and validate its own connected devices. This includes the "gaiatron / gaiatron+ agro-environmental telemetry stations" and "gaiaTrap intelligent pest-monitoring devices", integrating sensors, communications, embedded software and AI-enabled monitoring capabilities. The company has established one of the largest operational agricultural IoT networks in Greece, with approximately "600 field data-collection stations", deployed nationwide, but most importantly more than 4,850 installations of IoT gaiatron deployed nationwide within the scope of Agriculture of Intelligence project. These stations continuously collect atmospheric, soil and crop-environment observations and can be combined with satellite EO data to support calibration, validation, agricultural monitoring and the development of advanced data-fusion applications. NEUROPUBLIC additionally operates "EO and geospatial data-processing capabilities" for optical, multispectral, radar and other satellite-derived datasets, enabling the integration of satellite observations with in-situ measurements, UAV data and agricultural information. Its infrastructure has supported large-scale agricultural monitoring, Smart Farming, CAP-related applications and R&D activities, providing a powerful environment for "developing, testing and scaling EO-based services from satellite data acquisition to operational end-user applications".