Industry RFID systems Headquarters Espoo, Finland Number of employees 46 | Website www.vilant.com Founded 2002 Type of business Private | |
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Key people Ville Kauppinen, Chairman of the Board, Co-founder of Vilant
Antti Virkkunen, Country Manager Vilant Systems AG & Co-founder
Peter Hietala, Country Manager Vilant Systems Scandinavia
Panu Virtanen, Chief Operations Officer
Arlinda Sipilä, Director, Marketing
Antti Känsälä, Director, Products Products Vilant Device Manager, Vilant Visibility Manager, Vilant Train Analyzer, Vilant Tracker, Vilant Smart Gate, Vilant Railway Reader Unit | ||
Vilant Systems Oy is a privately held technology company headquartered in Espoo, Finland. Vilant was founded in 2002 by Antti Virkkunen and Ville Kauppinen. Vilant provides end-to-end RFID information systems for industrial, especially manufacturing logistics. Vilant has delivered installations to 600 different sites in 30 countries.
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Growth
Vilant has been nominated as Finland's 3rd fastest growing young technology company in 2006 and Finland's 7th fastest growing technology company in 2008 by Deloitte Consulting. In 2011 Vilant ranked 18th on the same list with 5-year growth being 444%.
Vilant has won the EMEA mobility innovations award by Motorola in 2006.
Vilant Systems is co-founder and member or RFID Lab Finland. RFID Lab Finland is an industry association that brings together vendors and end users of RFID technology.
In 2011 Vilant was selected as a Finalist for Red Herring’s Top 100 Europe award.
Vilant has offices in Espoo, Finland, Gothenburg, Sweden and Bern, Switzerland. In 2011 Vilant acquired Swisscom Auto-ID Services AG in Switzerland.
Area of business
Vilant Systems provides information systems, that make use of Radio Frequency Identification technology (RFID). The systems developed by Vilant exploit RFID technology in the monitoring of a corporate logistics processes. They enable the automation of movement transactions of transportation units in real time using RFID tags and RFID readers. Transportation units can be roller cages, containers, or different raw material units.
Areas of application are:
Customers include ABB, STX Europe, Nokia, Wärtsilä, Swiss Post and Volvo.
Key business partners are SAP, Microsoft and UPM Raflatac.