HID Global has acquired Omni-ID, a leading manufacturer of radio-frequency ID (RFID) tags and industrial IoT hardware devices for passive and active tagging, tracking, monitoring and alerting applications. The acquisition extends HID’s market leadership in RFID technology.
“I am very pleased to welcome Omni-ID into the ASSA ABLOY Group and HID,” says Björn Lidefelt, executive vice president and head of HID Global. “Omni-ID is a strategic technological addition to HID and reinforces our current RFID and IoT offering.”
Omni-ID provides passive, rugged long-range RAIN RFID ultra-high frequency (UHF) tags and labels in several form factors for an array of identification requirements. The company focuses on organizations in the industrial, oil and gas, transportation and other markets that seek rugged UHF RFID solutions for use in challenging environmental conditions (high heat, wind, dirt, explosive and other difficult scenarios).
In addition, Omni-ID brings passive UHF temperature sensing to the HID identification technologies portfolio and fortifies HID’s deep expertise and capabilities in custom RFID design and personalization.
Active tags and solutions from Omni-ID are implemented with embedded technologies and protocols such as Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), LoRaWAN, GPS, Quuppa and Wirepas, which complement the HID Location Services offerings.
Omni-ID was founded in 2007 and is based in Rochester, New York, with about 170 employees worldwide. It’s now a business unit within HID’s Identification Technologies Business Area, which is led by Marc Bielmann.
