瑞典技术集团购买嵌入式天线专家Omni-ID

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瑞典企业集团Assa Abloy购买了嵌入式天线专家Omni-ID,以获得未公开的款项。阅读更多
尼克·弗莱厄蒂(Nick Flaherty)

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Omni-ID于2007年脱离了英国国防研究小组,并拥有RFID天线技术的关键专利。该公司提供广泛的超高频率(UHF)射频标识(RFID)设备,包括被动硬标签和标签,以及越来越多的主动设备,这些设备用于跟踪和监视制造组件,能源基础设施,物流容器,物流容器,国际空间站的资产和设备。

交易条款未披露。该公司总共筹集了4400万美元的资金,主要来自Qinetiq的联合基金Cody Gate Ventures,去年销售额为1300万美元。

“我很高兴欢迎Omni-ID加入Assa Abloy集团。Omni-ID是Assa Abloy集团的战略技术补充,并加强了我们目前的RFID和IoT产品,并提供了互补的增长机会。

Omni-ID是原始专利持有者和发明家of on-metal as well as balanced (on and off metal) UHF passive tags. Its patented Plasmonic Structure design uses layers of conductors and dielectrics to isolate the RF from the tag’s surrounding environment, which ensures the tag performs successfully on or near metal and liquids where traditional tags are based on antennas don’t work well. US Patents 7,880,619 and 7,768,400, including IP used across Europe and Asia, are the key building blocks of the Omni-ID RFID IP. The company also uses Bluetooth, LoRaWAN and Quuppa wireless technology developed by a startup in Finland around Bluetooth (above).

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Omni-ID拥有170名员工,总部位于纽约罗切斯特,在英国,欧洲,印度和中国设有办事处。它将被整合到德克萨斯州奥斯汀市HID Global的身份识别技术业务领域。

“Since Omni-ID started life as a dynamic and highly ambitious spin-out, we have been on a mission to provide our customers with a wide range of industry-leading passive and active UHF based hardware for a broad array of applications in the logistics, energy, manufacturing and IT sectors,” said Tony Kington who was part of the team that founded Omni-ID when it was spun out of QinetiQ in 2007 and is currently CEO. “HID Global provides the perfect platform to push our ambition even further, combining the RFID market leadership and structure of a major multinational organization with our renowned product development and agile engineering prowess”.

“除了扩大我们增值的RFID组件和主动识别设备的产品外,此次收购还增强了我们通过扩大我们的销售和制造足迹来为印度和中国客户提供服务的能力,这是将我们的工业IoT技术扩展到新兴市场的重要步骤,“全球技术部门HID Global的执行副总裁兼主管BjörnLidefelt说。

在2019年。Omni-ID将其Proview材料流量管理业务卖给了松下,但以OEM为基础提供标签。

在德克萨斯州奥斯汀市HID Global拥有4,000多名员工,并在国际办事处运营,这些办事处为100多个国家 /地区的100多个国家 /地区的一部分是100亿欧元的Assa Abloy集团。

www.hidglobal.com;www.omni-id.com

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