UMD is Australia's leading IoT and RFID engineering company, delivering end-to-end solutions across the Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC) industry.

We help organisations add eyes and ears to their software — giving enterprise systems real-world awareness through automated data capture, intelligent devices, and edge-to-cloud integration. This enables companies to:

• Improve productivity through automated data capture
• Access specialised custom and standard electronic products
• Adopt Physical AI and Industry 4.0 / 5.0 practices

Physical AI and Industry 4.0 / 5.0 are about connecting edge technologies — RFID, IoT, sensors, machine vision, and terminals — to enterprise software, allowing AI and autonomous agents to deliver insights, automate workflows, and strengthen operational resilience.

For industry partners, we provide:

• A single source of products, systems, and solutions for most of your AIDC needs
• The capability to engineer custom hardware and software that uniquely matches your requirements
• Managed edge solutions that free you to focus on your core competencies

For customers seeking solutions, we offer:

• An extensive network of partners — our UMD Collaboration Solutions Partners — enabling complete, end-to-end delivery
• Cost-effective solutions tailored to your goals

With over 40 years of engineering experience, we design and deliver interconnected solutions built on deep expertise across four key markets and three core technology domains.

Our Markets

Our Three Core Technology Domains

UMD engineers interconnected edge solutions that integrate vertically and horizontally to meet customer-specific needs — spanning the devices people use, the devices that sense and act on their own, and the software and services that tie everything together.

01 - Human Interface Devices (HID)

The devices people interact with directly:

• Mobile and computer terminals
• Barcoding
• Point of service, kiosk and vending
• Wireless and networking

This spans mobility terminals, tablets, PDAs, wearables and vehicle-mounted computers; touchscreen POS terminals with cash drawers and peripherals; handheld and wearable barcode and RFID scanners; and industrial, desktop and portable printers — all backed by procurement, device pre-configuration, mobile device management, deployment and after-sales support.

02 Autonomous Interface Devices (AID)

The devices that sense and act on their own:

• IOT / RFID
• Fixed barcode scanners
• Machine vision
• Embedded systems and interfaces
• Sensors

This includes fixed, handheld and OEM RFID readers, portals, antennae and tags; IoT gateways, devices and sensors across BLE, cellular, LoRa, Wi-Fi and wired networks; OEM scanner and embedded modules; and the integration of intelligent sensor networks that capture data from edgeware devices in real time.

03 UMD Value Add — Software & Services

The expertise that ties everything together:

• Systems
  • systems architecture & integration
  • wireless infrastructure & networking
  • hosting services - secure, high reliability
  • deployment and after sales support
• Software
  • embedded, mobile & applications
  • middleware & cloud
  • payment service provider - credit card payment gateway
• Engineering
  • electronic products design - controllers and interfaces
  • manufacturing and assembly
  • research and development

Our in-house engineering is complemented by managed cloud platforms — CardGate (a PCI-DSS payment gateway), UMD BOS (e/commerce platform), CHARIOT (IoT broker & applications), RACE-WARE (retail / RFID), and VAST-BE (access control & vouchers)