Agilion

Agilion — the German company founded in 2004 offering wireless positioning systems in real time (RTLS). They accumulate, process and store information on location and movements of people, objects, mobile mechanisms and vehicles for the purpose of monitoring technology and business processes, signaling about deviations from regulations and also for the purpose of the retrospective analysis of these or those processes and situations.

The Agilion systems are intended for positioning with an enhanced accuracy of people and objects in difficult conditions, including in the premises saturated with the equipment and furniture.

By April, 2018 the staff of Agilion totals 60 employees. All of them work in the German city of Chemnitz.

History

2018: Siemens purchased Agilion

In April, 2018 the German industrial concern Siemens announced Agilion purchase. The cost of the transaction does not reveal.

Thanks to this acquisition of Siemens will improve the systems of positioning in real time (RTLS) in the ultrabroadband range for the purpose of automation of the enterprises and promotion of self-governed transport solutions. It, in turn, will strengthen positions of the company in the field of development of technologies of Internet of Things.

Siemens purchased the developer of IoT-solutions for production

Under the terms of the agreement, Agilion becomes 100 percent "subsidiary" of Siemens and joins division of industrial communications and identification.

According to the head of this division Herbert Wegmann, RTLS is a key technology and a new step on the way to flexible automation in production — for example, by providing dynamic concepts of self-organization of production of huge volumes of products. Besides, positioning systems in real time allow to use safely and effectively mobile robots, he added.^[1]

According to the research Zebra Technologies, more than a half (54%) of the European producers are going to begin to use RTLS for collecting of the major data on assets, including location, a production stage and a status.

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