Omni-ID — 0C:1E:F7 (MA-L)

Omni-ID holds a single MA-L block, 0C:1E:F7, registered to "Omni-ID" at The Enterprise Center, Coxbridge Business Park, Alton Road, Farnham, Surrey GU10 5EH, GB. Omni-ID is an industrial RFID and IoT hardware maker — founded in 2007, spun out of UK defense-tech firm QinetiQ, and acquired by HID Global (ASSA ABLOY group) in August 2021. The company is best known as an early inventor and patent-holder of on-metal passive UHF RFID tags, which carry no IP stack and emit no MAC address. The 0C:1E:F7 prefix therefore most plausibly belongs to Omni-ID's active, network-capable hardware: the "Sense" product family of BLE beacons and LoRaWAN/GPS asset trackers used for industrial asset tracking across manufacturing, oil and gas, construction, healthcare, and supply-chain work-in-process. Sense Asset BLE tags advertise iBeacon and Eddystone profiles with up to ~200 m range, IP68 rating, and multi-year battery life. The security caveat for network operators: Omni-ID's active BLE/LoRaWAN devices carry the standard IoT/BLE attack surface — advertising interception, beacon-identifier replay, reader DoS, and unauthorized location tracking via static BLE addresses — so their presence on a corporate network warrants inventory controls. No Omni-ID-specific CVEs or vendor advisories were found. As with every OUI, IEEE publishes no registration date; the "2021-10-08" date shown by some third-party lookup tools is a database artifact and must not be surfaced as an IEEE fact.

IEEE assignment

0C:1E:F7 → Omni-ID, registered Farnham, Surrey, GB [Confirmed] — IEEE MA-L (enrichment/registries/oui.csv, line 733; cross-confirmed https://maclookup.app/vendors/omni-id)

Registry / block size

MA-L (24-bit OUI; ~16.8M addresses) [Confirmed] — IEEE MA-L / maclookup.app

Registered address

Omni-ID, The Enterprise Center, Coxbridge Business Park, Alton Road, Farnham, Surrey GU10 5EH, GB [Confirmed] — IEEE oui.csv line 733 (CSV omits the comma before "Surrey"; transcribed with standard punctuation)

HQ / country

registry address is Farnham, Surrey, GB (GB); operating HQ is Rochester, NY, US post-acquisition [Confirmed registry GB; operating HQ US] — IEEE oui.csv / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omni-ID

Additional blocks

none — no Omni-ID entries in MA-M (mam.csv) or MA-S (oui36.csv); single MA-L only [Confirmed] — enrichment/registries (mam.csv, oui36.csv)

Company status

active, operating as part of HID Global (ASSA ABLOY) [Confirmed] — https://newsroom.hidglobal.com/hid-global-acquires-omni-id-extend-its-rfid-leadership

Founded / ownership

founded 2007, spun out of QinetiQ; acquired by HID Global (ASSA ABLOY group) August 2021 [Confirmed] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omni-ID , https://newsroom.hidglobal.com/hid-global-acquires-omni-id-extend-its-rfid-leadership

Device types

passive UHF on-metal RFID tags (no MAC / no IP stack) and the active "Sense" IoT family — Sense Asset BLE (iBeacon/Eddystone, ~200 m, IP68), Sense Asset+ (BLE + LoRaWAN + GPS), Sense Locate. The 0C:1E:F7 OUI most plausibly belongs to the active BLE/LoRaWAN devices, since passive tags emit no MAC. [Confirmed product lines; OUI-to-device-family mapping is inferential] — https://www.rfidjournal.com/news/omni-id-offers-new-product-family-with-ble-lorawan/154190/ , https://www.armata.fi/en/iot-trackers-sensors/376-omni-id-sense-asset-ble-iot-active-tag.html

Notable products

on-metal RFID tags (original patent holder); Sense active IoT tracker family

Use cases

industrial manufacturing, oil and gas, defense, construction, IT asset management, healthcare, supply chain, work-in-process tracking [Confirmed] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omni-ID , RFID Journal (above)

Allocated date

Unknown — IEEE publishes NO assignment/registration date for OUI/MAC prefixes (oui.csv columns are only Registry, Assignment, Organization Name, Organization Address). The "2021-10-08" date on maclookup.app is a third-party database artifact, not an IEEE fact; do not surface it as an IEEE registration date. [Unknown] — IEEE oui.csv schema

Security note

active BLE/LoRaWAN devices carry standard IoT/BLE attack surface — BLE advertising interception, beacon-identifier replay, reader DoS, and unauthorized tracking via static BLE addresses; iBeacon/Eddystone broadcast publicly by design. No Omni-ID-specific CVEs or vendor advisories found in this pass. Passive UHF RFID tags (the bulk of the line) emit no MAC traffic. [Likely — general IoT/BLE attack surface, single-angle, no vendor-specific CVE] — https://asimily.com/blog/rfid-vulnerabilities-iot-security-challenges/ , https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.03852

Related vendors

HID Global / ASSA ABLOY (parent, acquired Aug 2021) [Confirmed] — HID Global newsroom (above)

Website

https://www.hidglobal.com/omni-id (legacy omni-id.com redirects here post-acquisition) [Confirmed] — https://omni-id.com/ble/

Analyst note

a 0C:1E:F7 address on a globally-administered MAC identifies genuine Omni-ID active hardware (most likely a Sense BLE/LoRaWAN tracker); passive UHF RFID tags do not present a MAC, so OUI absence does not mean "no Omni-ID assets" in an RFID-tagged environment.