HID Global\u00ae, a worldwide leader in trusted identity solutions, today announced that it has acquired Bluvision, a leading Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) provider in the enterprise Internet of Things (IoT) market. The acquisition transaction closed today.\u00a0 Financial terms are not being disclosed.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Bluvision is a complete IoT ecosystem provider, offering real-time location system technology, presence and proximity-based location capabilities and condition monitoring solutions as well as cloud infrastructure, gateways, beacons and software as a service (SaaS). The company is a perfect fit for HID Global and will:<\/p>\n
Expand HID\u2019s real-time asset tracking capabilities<\/p>\n
Boost HID\u2019s ability to address the IoT market with Bluetooth offerings, and<\/p>\n
Extend HID\u2019s cloud services for access control and related applications.<\/p>\n
\u201cBluvision will expand HID Global\u2019s offerings with BLE products and help us further differentiate from the competition,\u201d said Stefan Widing, President and CEO of HID Global. \u201cWe are extending our lead in BLE-based IoT solutions that we created when we launched our mobile access solution two years ago. With our combined solutions and technologies, our customers’ ability to manage assets and people within buildings will increase significantly.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jimmy Buchheim, the head of Bluvision, said, \u201cBecoming part of HID Global, Bluvision will have the support and expertise to continue driving technology to the next level in the Internet of Things space for years to come and speed up our cycles of innovation.\u00a0 We share a common vision with HID Global to deliver an unparalleled combination of accuracy, convenience, security and scalability that enables our customers to determine the specific location and condition of assets and people in real time in ways that were previously not possible.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Bluvision team will report to Marc Bielmann, VP & MD of the Identification Technologies business within HID Global. The addition of Bluvision\u2019s products expands HID Global\u2019s \u201ccomponent continuum\u201d from high-end, passive RFID components (LF\/HF\/UHF) to active BLE.\u00a0 In addition, Bluzone from Bluvision delivers cloud services that are well aligned with HID Global\u2019s data services strategy. Bluvision will continue to maintain its operations in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.<\/p>\n
About BluvisionFounded in the year 2014, Bluvision was the first to offer a cloud solution that allows remote, worldwide beacon deployment and management.\u00a0 The Bluvision platform aggregates and analyzes large amounts of sensor data, utilizing its cloud-based location engine, advanced visualization tools and its management of its beacons.<\/p>\n
Bluvision\u2019s highly scalable end-to-end IoT platform is built to scale to millions of connected units (or objects) and manage and monitor networks of tens of thousands of assets.\u00a0 Its real-time location system is used for tracking assets with industry-leading accuracy with features, including heat maps, geofences and flexible policy creation.\u00a0 It also determines motorized equipment health and preventative maintenance actions by using advanced algorithms and telemetry data, such as temperature, vibration, movement, ambient light and other sensor-based data.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Bluvision was selected as the hardware partner for enabling tunnel navigation capabilities by Google\u2019s Waze business unit. Utilizing Bluvision technology, Waze, the free, real time, crowdsourced traffic and navigation app powered by drivers, has developed a viable solution that addresses \u2018tunnel blindness\u2019 in the absence of GPS. Bluvision\u2019s industry-leading Bluetooth sensor beacons, along with Waze innovative software, are the perfect solution to the challenges with tunnel navigation and accuracy in ETA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
HID Global\u00ae, a worldwide leader in trusted identity solutions, today announced that it has acquired Bluvision, a leading Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) provider in the enterprise Internet of Things (IoT) market. The acquisition transaction closed today.\u00a0 Financial terms are not being disclosed.\u00a0 Bluvision is a complete IoT ecosystem provider, offering real-time location system technology, presence […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3305,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_pr_autopilot_social_copy":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph_title":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph_description":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph_image":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph_image_id":0,"_yoast_wpseo_twitter_title":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter_description":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter_image":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter_image_id":0,"_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":0,"_extra_hide_author_box":"1","_extra_featured_post":"","_partner_post_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\n