Research & Development

Research that scales.

We run applied research programs — with universities, research centers and industry — and turn the results into deployable systems and real products.

35+ Years engineering
4 Research domains
0 Subcontracting
How we do R&D

Applied research, engineered to ship.

Our research is never a slide deck. Every program is aimed at something that can be built, tested and deployed — and we own the whole stack, from hardware to AI, inside one team.

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Applied, not academic-only

We research toward deployable systems — prototypes and PoCs that survive real conditions, not just papers.

02

Consortium-driven

We run programs with universities, research centers, industrial partners and public funding — pooling expertise no single team holds.

03

Full-stack in one team

Software, AI, embedded and hardware under one roof — so a research idea can travel all the way to an integrated, working system.

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Structure & sincerity

Disciplined engineering paired with honesty about what is still uncertain — we report what the results actually show.

Fields

Where we push the frontier.

On-premise & edge AI

Running performant LLMs and real-time video/audio analysis locally — private inference, RAG on confidential data, no cloud dependency.

Embedded & ultra-low-power

Edge computing, firmware and IoT devices engineered for years of battery life, signal integrity and real-time constraints.

Hardware & instrumentation

Electronics design, PCB, thermal and mechanical integration, and scientific instrumentation — through to series production.

Data platforms & automation

Multi-tenant platforms, data pipelines and workflow automation that scale from a pilot to a national deployment.

Programs

Flagship research programs.

Walloon R&D consortium

ReconnAIssance

Real-time AI analysis of 10 Gb/s video and audio streams, on-premise, inside a single 1U rack. Thelis owned the full hardware stack; consortium partners drove the AI and software.

10 Gb/sLive streams
1UOn-prem rack

With Phoenix AI, ACIC, Sirris, UCLouvain, ULiège, WNM & the Walloon Region — Pôle MecaTech.

Outcome: gave birth to our product Zharis ›

Medical instrumentation

D-CAF

Next-generation dosimetry for proton therapy — integrated hardware, firmware and control software. A 48-month research program doubling measurement precision.

760Electrodes
×2Precision

With IBA, UCLouvain & ULB.

Outcome: 48 months of R&D, from concept to validated instrument.

From research to product

Research becomes reality.

We don't stop at the paper or the prototype. When a research result proves itself, we engineer it into something an organisation can actually run.

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Research program

A funded consortium tackles a hard, uncertain problem.

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Engineered prototype

We build and harden a full-stack system — hardware, firmware and AI integrated and field-tested.

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A product you can scale

The result becomes a supported product.

Consortia

We research with the best.

Universities, research centers, industry and public bodies we have run research programs with.

  • UCLouvain
  • ULiège
  • ULB
  • Sirris
  • IBA
  • Phoenix AI
  • ACIC
  • WNM
  • Région wallonne
  • Pôle MecaTech
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Run an R&D program with us.

Building a consortium, exploring a hard technical problem, or looking to turn research into a real product? Let's talk.

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