Tag: Marc Bielmann
HID signs agreement to acquire Calmell Group
July 10, 2025SSN Staff
AUSTIN, Texas—Identity solutions provider HID announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Calmell Group, a Spanish manufacturer of smart cards, smart paper tickets, and magnetic tickets, primarily for the public transportation vertical.
The addition of Calmell Group expands HID’s smart ticketing portfolio to include smart paper and magnetic tickets, as well as provides HID a stronger geographic foothold in the public transportation space, particularly in Spain, the European...
HID acquires GuardRFID
February 9, 2023SSN Staff
AUSTIN, Texas – Identity solutions company HID has expanded on its healthcare offering with the acquisition of GuardRFID.
HID said the acquisition of the real-time location services company (RTLS) will create safer experiences for patients and staff as they utilize GuardRFID’s software and hardware solutions to support new use cases for infant security, staff duress, asset tracking, and wandering patients, while expanding HID's offering and relevance in the active RFID...
HID Global acquires Omni-ID
August 23, 2021SSN Staff
AUSTIN, Texas—HID Global, a worldwide leader in trusted identity solutions, announced that it has acquired Omni-ID, a leading manufacturer of 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 and strengthens its presence in India and China.
“I am very pleased to welcome Omni-ID into the ASSA ABLOY Group and HID,” said Björn...
HID Global acquires Bluvision
December 19, 2016Paul Ragusa
AUSTIN, Texas—HID Global, a company that specializes in identity solutions, has acquired Bluvision, a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) provider in the enterprise Internet of Things (IoT) market. The deal closed Dec. 1, and financial terms were not disclosed.Bluvision will continue to maintain its operations in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and the Bluvision team will report to Marc Bielmann, HID Global's VP and managing director of the Identification Technologies business.“Bluvision expands HID Global's...