AIM Infrarot-Module GmbH — 00:14:E6 (MA-L)

A MAC address starting with 00:14:E6 belongs to AIM INFRAROT-MODULE GmbH (registry name "AIM Infrarotmodule GmbH"), a German manufacturer of infrared detectors and thermal-imaging systems, typically seen on defense and industrial thermal-imaging hardware rather than consumer or general enterprise network gear.

The registrant is a real, decades-old company, not a bare single-OUI shell. It was founded in 1996 as an AEG-Telefunken infrared spinoff (the infrared business itself traces to 1976) and is now a 50/50 joint venture of Diehl Defence and Rheinmetall Defence Electronics, with roughly 336-398 employees and €70.6M-€90.7M in recent annual revenue.

The company holds ISO 9001, 14001, 50001, and 27001 certification and operates two facilities: Heilbronn as headquarters and Ulm as its design center, which matches the registered OUI address exactly. Its product line covers infrared/thermal detectors, Stirling cryogenic cooling engines, and complete thermal-imaging devices and sights.

Those products are used for military thermal imaging on Bundeswehr/NATO land, sea, and air platforms, on drones, and in long-range rifle thermal sights, as well as in space, research, industrial-process, and safety/environmental applications. No vendor-specific documentation was found confirming Ethernet or GigE Vision network interfaces on AIM's own products, so that link stays Unknown rather than asserted.

IEEE's public OUI registry publishes no assignment or registration date for this or any MA-L block, and no third-party lookup returned one either, so no date is recorded. This is a single, direct MA-L assignment with no MA-M or MA-S sub-allocations found beneath it — not a shared IEEE base, and no other company shares this prefix.

IEEE assignment

00:14:E6 → "AIM Infrarotmodule GmbH", registered Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, DE [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry 0014E6 (IEEE MA-L)

Registry / block size

MA-L (24-bit OUI); single block — no MA-M/MA-S sub-allocations found [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry 0014E6; the IEEE MA-M registry and the IEEE MA-S registry grepped for "infrarot" and the Söflingerstraße address, no matches

HQ / registered address

Söflingerstraße 100, Ulm, Baden-Württemberg 89077, Germany (registry address; matches the published Ulm "ROIC Design Center") [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry 0014E6; https://www.aim-ir.com/en/company-profile.html

Company status

Active; 50/50 joint venture of Diehl Defence and Rheinmetall Defence Electronics [Confirmed] — https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIM_Infrarot-Module; https://www.aim-ir.com/en/company-profile.html

Company history

Founded 1996 as an AEG-Telefunken infrared spinoff (infrared business traces to 1976); ~336-398 employees; €70.6M-€90.7M recent annual revenue; ISO 9001/14001/50001/27001 certified [Confirmed] — https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIM_Infrarot-Module

Facilities

Heilbronn (HQ) and Ulm (design center, matches registered OUI address) [Confirmed] — https://www.aim-ir.com/en/company-profile.html

Device types

Infrared/thermal detectors, Stirling cryogenic cooling engines, thermal-imaging cameras and sights for military land/sea/air platforms, drones, and rifle sights; also space, research, industrial, and safety/environmental applications

[Confirmed] — https://www.aim-ir.com/en/company-profile.html; https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIM_Infrarot-Module

Network/Ethernet interface corroboration

Unknown — no vendor-specific documentation found confirming Ethernet/GigE Vision or other network interfaces on AIM's products [Unknown] — negative web search result, no citation available

Registration date

Unknown — IEEE's public OUI registry publishes no assignment/registration date for this or any row; a third-party lookup (maclookup.app) returned no vendor match for 00:14:E6 either [Confirmed absence of a date] — the IEEE MA-L registry 0014E6

Shared base status

Not a shared base — direct MA-L assignment owned solely by AIM Infrarotmodule GmbH; no sub-allocation language applies [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry 0014E6

Security context

No CVEs or public security advisories found for AIM Infrarot-Module hardware; this is a negative search result, not a confirmed clean record, and the product line is specialist defense/industrial hardware rather than consumer/enterprise gear [Unknown]

Analyst note

A MAC starting 00:14:E6 reliably identifies AIM Infrarot-Module hardware — this is a direct, non-shared assignment, so the shared-IEEE-base caveat does not apply — but no network/Ethernet interface documentation was found for their specific products, so treat a match as identifying the manufacturer, not a confirmed networked-appliance type.