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About Noccela

Precise location technology, designed in Finland

Noccela designs ultra-wideband (UWB) real-time location systems in Finland: base stations (UWB anchors), tags, the Location Intelligence Platform and APIs for tracking people, vehicles and assets indoors and outdoors. We have worked with UWB radio since 2015.

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What we build

One team in Littoinen, near Turku, designs the whole positioning chain: the radio protocol, the hardware, the firmware, the positioning engine and the cloud software. When something needs to change, we can change it at the layer where it belongs.

Radio protocol

High-Performance Ranging (HPR), our own UWB positioning protocol: ranging accuracy, high tag capacity and a two-way link to every tag.
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Hardware and firmware

Base stations, badges, asset tags, call buttons and signalling lights, and the firmware that runs on them, updated over the air.
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Positioning engine and platform

The engine that turns radio measurements into positions, and the Location Intelligence Platform with live maps, dashboards and workflows, in the cloud or on premises.
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APIs and integrations

A real-time WebSocket stream, an HTTP API and webhooks, so that your own systems get positions and events as they happen.
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Positioning accuracy, up to
10 cm
Coverage per base station, up to
500 m²
Active tags at 1 Hz within radio range
1,000
Configurable update rate
0.1–50 Hz

Our story

Noccela started in 2014 with a retail problem: how to protect goods on open display without locking them away. That work led the team to ultra-wideband radio in 2015, and to a conclusion that shaped the company. The UWB positioning methods of the time made you choose between the accuracy and two-way link of two-way ranging and the tag capacity of time difference of arrival. So Noccela built its own.

The result is High-Performance Ranging (HPR) and a complete system around it: base stations that calibrate themselves, tags that run for years on a battery, a positioning engine in the cloud or on the customer's premises, and the Noccela Location Intelligence Platform with open APIs.

After the retail years, the platform was opened to partners and customers in other industries. Since then the same technology has been used in factories, warehouses and logistics terminals, on sports fields and in stables, often through partners who build their own applications on it.

Timeline

Milestones from public sources, with links to the full stories.

  1. 2014

    • Noccela Oy is registered in April 2014 in the Turku region. It sets out to build electronic article surveillance (EAS) for retail: tags that protect goods on open display.

  2. 2015

    • Noccela starts working with ultra-wideband (UWB) radio, tests the positioning methods available at the time and begins building its own.

  3. 2020

    • UWB distance measurement goes into social-distancing and contact-tracing badges, used by industrial employers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
    • The Beacon 3 base station is granted FCC ID 2AVRO-BEACON-3 for indoor use in the US. Product page

  4. 2021

    • High-Performance Ranging (HPR) is launched after six years of development, for large sites in industry, healthcare, sports and security. Read more

  5. 2022

    • DNA and Noccela announce a partnership for industrial IoT. DNA offers the technology to its business customers as DNA Täsmäpaikannus. Read more
    • Noccela appears on the Qorvo stand at Embedded World in Nuremberg.

  6. 2023

    • Navigine becomes a solutions partner for industrial customers. Read more
    • Noccela demonstrates a UWB network in which smartphones calculate their own indoor position. Read more
    • The cloud services move to Google Cloud. Read more

  7. 2024

    • Noccela exhibits with Qorvo at CES in Las Vegas. Read more
    • Smartphone indoor navigation is shown at MWC Barcelona. Read more

  8. 2025

    • Noccela exhibits at Agritechnica in Hannover, the trade fair for agricultural machinery. Read more

  9. 2026

    • SPÅT takes its UWB athlete tracking from the football pitch to youth basketball. Read more
    • The new noccela.com opens with guides, developer documentation and full product specifications. Read more

Company facts

Legal name
Noccela Oy
Parallel trade names
Noccela Ltd, Noccela Ab
Business ID
2616553-2 (Finnish Trade Register)
VAT ID
FI26165532
Founded
2014 (registered 11 April 2014)
Address
Kaarinantie 700, 20660 Littoinen, Finland
Municipality
Kaarina, next to Turku

Contact

Invoicing and e-invoicing details are on the company information page.

Work with Noccela

Partners & OEM

Resell, integrate or build our UWB positioning into your own product.
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Careers

Firmware, RF hardware, cloud, frontend and field engineering in Littoinen.
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Press

Boilerplate, logos, brand colours and product photos for media use.
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Contact

Sales, support and general enquiries, or book a call with an engineer.
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