The "Hailo" name in the IEEE registry resolves to three MA-L blocks held by two legally and commercially unrelated companies, and any vendor page must disambiguate them rather than merge them. Two blocks — EC:AF:F9 and 68:D4:8B — belong to Hailo Technologies Ltd., the Israeli edge-AI chip company founded in Tel Aviv in 2017, both registered at 94 Yigal Alon, Tel Aviv, IL 6789139. The third, 8C:43:61, belongs to Hailo Digital Hub GmbH & Co. KG of Giessen, Germany — the IoT/smart-waste arm of the German Hailo household-products group, which has nothing to do with the Israeli AI firm despite sharing the name. For Hailo Technologies, the most plausible MAC-bearing device is the Hailo-15 vision-processor SoC, which integrates a Gigabit Ethernet MAC (RGMII/RMII) for smart IP cameras; the Hailo-8/8L/10H accelerators ship as M.2/mPCIe/PCIe co-processors with no Ethernet interface of their own, so they would not consume an OUI directly. For Hailo Digital Hub, the registration most likely covers a gateway or management device, since its fill-level waste sensors communicate over LoRaWAN rather than Ethernet. No CVEs or public threat reports were found for either company's hardware as of the research date, and IEEE publishes no registration dates for any of the three blocks.
- IEEE assignment (Hailo Technologies)
- EC:AF:F9 and 68:D4:8B → Hailo Technologies Ltd., 94 Yigal Alon, Tel Aviv, IL 6789139 [Confirmed] — IEEE MA-L (enrichment/registries/oui.csv rows 145, 9146)
- IEEE assignment (Hailo Digital Hub)
- 8C:43:61 → Hailo Digital Hub GmbH & Co. KG, Lahnstrasse 3a, Giessen, Hessen, DE 35398 — a separate German legal entity, NOT the Israeli AI company [Confirmed] — IEEE MA-L (enrichment/registries/oui.csv row 24725)
- Registry / block size
- all three MA-L (24-bit OUI). No MA-M (OUI-36) or MA-S block for either company; mam.csv "Hailo" hits are false positives (substring of "Hailong", a Beijing building name in unrelated address strings) [Confirmed] — enrichment/registries/oui.csv, mam.csv, oui36.csv
- No IEEE date
- IEEE public OUI data (oui.csv columns: Registry, Assignment, Organization Name, Organization Address) publishes NO assignment/registration date for any of the three prefixes; any "date registered" on maclookup.app, macvendorlookup.com or similar is a database artifact, not an IEEE fact [Confirmed] — enrichment/registries/oui.csv
- HQ / country (Hailo Technologies)
- Tel Aviv, Israel (IL). Registry lists 94 Yigal Alon; the company's own site and Wikipedia cite 82 Yigal Alon St. — a minor street-number discrepancy [Confirmed registry value; Likely clerical variance] — enrichment/registries/oui.csv; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hailo_Technologies
- HQ / country (Hailo Digital Hub)
- Giessen, Hessen, Germany (DE) [Confirmed] — enrichment/registries/oui.csv; https://www.northdata.com/Hailo+Digital+Hub+GmbH+%26+Co.+KG,+Giessen/HRA+4920
- Company status (Hailo Technologies)
- active; founded 2017, Tel Aviv; edge-AI/semiconductor; unicorn since 2021 [Confirmed] — https://hailo.ai/; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hailo_Technologies
- Company status (Hailo Digital Hub)
- active; founded 2018; IoT smart-waste spin-off of the German Hailo household-products group [Confirmed] — https://www.iot-transmit.de/ueber-uns/mitglieder/hailo-digital-hub
- Device types (Hailo Technologies)
- AI accelerator modules (Hailo-8 26 TOPS, Hailo-8L, Hailo-10H) in M.2/mPCIe/PCIe — PCIe co-processors with NO own Ethernet MAC; AI vision-processor SoCs (Hailo-15L, Hailo-15H) with integrated Gigabit Ethernet (RGMII/RMII), for smart IP cameras. The Hailo-15 SoC's built-in GigE MAC is the most plausible reason for the MA-L registrations [Likely] — https://hailo.ai/products/ai-vision-processors/hailo-15-ai-vision-processor/; https://www.cnx-software.com/2023/03/12/hailo-15-ai-vision-processor-delivers-up-to-20-tops-for-smart-cameras/
- Device types (Hailo Digital Hub)
- smart-waste fill-level IoT sensors (ToF laser + LoRaWAN). Sensors use LoRaWAN, not Ethernet; the MA-L block likely covers a gateway/management device rather than the sensors [Likely] — https://www.iot-transmit.de/ueber-uns/mitglieder/hailo-digital-hub
- Notable products (Hailo Technologies)
- Hailo-8 (M.2/PCIe), Hailo-8L (Raspberry Pi AI HAT+), Hailo-10H (Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2), Hailo-15H/15L (AI camera SoCs) [Confirmed] — https://hailo.ai/products/; https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/ai-hat/
- Security context
- no CVEs, CISA/NVD advisories, or public threat reports found for either company's hardware/software as of 2026-06-15. Hailo-15 SoC documents hardware security features (secure boot, TrustZone, hardware crypto, TRNG) — design properties, not incident indicators. Hailo-8/10H attach via PCIe and present no direct network surface; Hailo-15-based smart cameras carry the usual managed-IP-camera exposure [Confirmed] — https://www.cnx-software.com/2023/03/12/hailo-15-ai-vision-processor-delivers-up-to-20-tops-for-smart-cameras/
- Related vendors (Hailo Technologies)
- Raspberry Pi Foundation, SolidRun, Lanner, Leopard Imaging, Variscite, Waveshare (integrators/partners) [Confirmed] — https://hailo.ai/company-overview/newsroom/news/raspberry-pi-selects-hailo-to-enable-advanced-ai-capabilities-for-raspberry-pi-5/
- Related vendors (Hailo Digital Hub)
- ZENNER Connect (LoRaWAN partner); parent German Hailo household-products group [Confirmed] — https://www.iot-transmit.de/ueber-uns/mitglieder/hailo-digital-hub
- Analyst note
- EC:AF:F9 / 68:D4:8B on a globally-administered address indicate Hailo Technologies hardware (most plausibly a Hailo-15-based smart camera, not a Hailo-8 accelerator). 8C:43:61 is a DIFFERENT company (German IoT) — do not attribute it to the AI chip vendor. No production device sighting ties a specific shipping unit to either Hailo Technologies prefix, so the device-type attribution stays Likely.