By Milan Šimek | August 06th, 2024 | 1 min read

After ten years in the market, it’s time to write the next chapter. We’re super-excited to announce that Sewio has been acquired by HID Global, the global leader in trusted identity solutions as well as in indoor location services. This partnership will enable us to scale and extend our RTLS solutions for manufacturers worldwide.

HID is a trendsetter at the forefront of the industry. The company is recognized as a leader in 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Indoor Location Services and has an impressive portfolio of technologies such as RFID, BLE, and IoT in general. Sewio is adding its RTLS expertise and UWB technology for manufacturing to HID’s current offerings, helping their manufacturing and automotive customers enhance smart factory and warehouse operations.

From left Milan Šimek (CEO and Co-founder at Sewio), Pavla Komendová (Partner at Šetina, Komendová & PARTNERS), Miloš Sochor (Managing Partner, Y Soft Ventures) and Lubomír Mráz (CTO and Co-founder at Sewio)

We chose HID as a strategic partner because we share the same vision— ultra-wideband RTLS will become a “must-have” technology for every factory just as WiFi did years ago. As part of HID, Sewio will be able to leverage its ecosystem to drive this evolution on a global scale.

“The acquisition by a global leader in the indoor location market is a clear recognition of our ten years of dedicated and focused efforts in providing solutions for manufacturing customers,” says Lubomír Mráz, the CTO and Co-founder of Sewio.

For more details, please refer to the official press release of HID: “HID Acquires Sewio Networks to Add Ultra-Wideband Technology to Growing RTLS Portfolio.”

We now have access to HID’s tech portfolio to deliver comprehensive solutions beyond our standard offering and UWB technology. By cooperating with other companies from HID’s vast ecosystem, our customers will be able to tackle even more complex problems and combine different technologies into a single integrated system with even more value. 

From now on, the sky is the limit when it comes to the scale of your project. Whether you need to track movement in a small shopfloor or a multi-building factory complex, we have enough capacity to quickly deliver all the localization infrastructure you’ll need and scale the solutions as your needs grow. 

The partnership with HID will benefit the whole Sewio community in many ways. Strong relationships, company culture, and staying true to our values have enabled this success. And we’ll rely on them even more as we continue on our journey.  

The acquisition is a major milestone for us. Our company started as a university research project more than ten years ago, a long time before UWB was adopted by the market. We’ve created RTLS solutions for enterprises such as Toyota, Denso, Philips, and Continental. The commercial sector is now on the threshold of mass UWB deployment, and thanks to the partnership with HID, Sewio is ready to help global companies gain an even bigger competitive advantage using the latest technology. 

We wouldn’t be able to get this far without the trust of our customers and the hard work of our business partners and employees. So, a massive thank you to everyone for being part of this exciting journey!

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Sewio team in 2024