Digi International acquired Disruptive Technologies to strengthen SmartSense, its enterprise monitoring platform that captures physical signals, applies AI to interpret them, and recommends actions. The acquisition adds proprietary edge sensor technology with over 250,000 sensors deployed and expands SmartSense into new markets including building automation and occupancy monitoring.
- Digi International acquired Disruptive Technologies to enhance SmartSense's physical-world intelligence capabilities
- Disruptive Technologies brings proprietary edge sensor technology with over 250,000 sensors already deployed globally
- The combined platform operates on three principles: Sense (capture physical signals), Understand (apply AI and analytics), and Act (recommend next actions)
- Acquisition expands SmartSense into building automation and occupancy markets while strengthening existing food and health sectors
- Disruptive Technologies operates across 25+ countries with established European customer relationships
Digi International announced plans to acquire Disruptive Technologies, strengthening SmartSense by Digi’s critical monitoring platform and its ability to capture, interpret and act on real-world data at enterprise scale.
SmartSense built its platform around Sense, Understand and Act: capturing physical signals, applying AI and analytics to interpret them, and using generative AI and digital workflows to recommend the best next action to generate value. The acquisition of Disruptive Technologies significantly strengthens the Sense layer of the platform.
"SmartSense and Disruptive Technologies together provide the building blocks for enterprises to operate more effectively by sensing physical operations efficiently at much greater scale," says Ron Konezny, CEO of Digi International. "Physical world intelligence is a foundational layer for enterprise AI, and this acquisition positions Digi to lead that category. We are excited to welcome the Disruptive Technologies team to the Digi family."
"This acquisition is about building an integrated physical-world intelligence platform where differentiated sensing provides trusted ground-truth data, AI turns that data into intelligence, and workflows translate intelligence into the best next action. Disruptive Technologies makes us better at every layer of that equation," says Guy Yehiav, president and SVP of SmartSense by Digi.
"Disruptive Technologies is driven by innovation to sense what matters,” adds Erik Fossum Faerevaag, CEO of Disruptive Technologies. "In SmartSense we found an organization that shares that same focus, combining market scale and reliable execution that will turn our sensing technology into measurable value for customers. Their strong customer satisfaction, execution, and scale give us an incredible platform to amplify what we’ve built."
Key takeaways:
· Disruptive Technologies brings proprietary edge sensor technology to SmartSense, enabling monitoring at scale with over 250,000 sensors deployed.
· In addition, Disruptive Technologies’ breadth of sensing also applies to SmartSense’s existing markets in food and health while opening markets in building automation and occupancy.
· The acquisition is built on Disruptive Technologies' established European customer relationships and infrastructure across more than 25 countries worldwide.
