Inpixon, the Indoor Intelligence™ company, announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire IntraNav GmbH (“INTRANAV”), a leading industrial IoT (IIoT), real-time location system (RTLS), and sensor data services provider. INTRANAV’s customers are generally large enterprises with billions in annual revenue and include Siemens Energy, TB International, Festo, and PERI, as well as international industry leaders in the fields of agricultural and construction machinery, aerospace, intralogistics and manufacturing.
INTRANAV is a Germany-based industrial automation company specializing in advanced location-aware technologies to help organizations realize the benefits of Industry 4.0 including smart factories, smart warehouses, virtual manufacturing, paperless factories, virtual yard management, and digital supply chains.
INTRANAV’s flagship offering is its enterprise-class, multi-technology, RTLS IoT platform, INTRANAV.IO, which can consume, process, and present data from nearly any other device or system. INTRANAV’s INTRALYTICS data-analytics software and INTRANAV.APP mobile and desktop apps complement the IoT platform. INTRANAV also offers a line of proprietary smart sensors including the tags for driverless transport systems, automated guided vehicles, smart pallets and more that can utilize UWB, RFID, GPS, Wi-Fi, and LTE cellular. Additional offerings with partners add NFC, BLE, and Wirepas Massive capabilities to the offering.
Siemens Energy’s Key Expert of Manufacturing Processes and Senior Project Management Robert Diener, said, “We are using INTRANAV solutions for managing powder tracking in an additive manufacturing facility in Finspang, Sweden. The INTRANAV RTLS solution has helped us to greatly improve the transparency of our powder handling process on the shop floor.”
Stephan Schraml, head of technology center and lead plant scaffolding Günzburg, with PERI Werk Günzburg GmbH, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of formwork and scaffolding systems with 2020 revenues exceeding €11.5 billion, commented, “We are using INTRANAV solutions for indoor tracking of our transport racks for semi-finished goods and have found their solutions can help us to address supply chain issues in the production. We are now able to make predictions regarding the arrival time and quantity at the next workstation just in time.