Every system that transmits data, locates an object or perceives its surroundings rests on a waveform. Its design defines what the system can and cannot do: range, robustness, security, power, cost. Change the waveform and you change the boundaries of the entire system above it. The waveform is not an accessory of the system. It is the system.
Communication, positioning and sensing have historically been three distinct engineering problems, each with its own waveform, its own physical properties and spectrum, and in most cases its own hardware. Three industries grew around that separation, with separate chipsets, certifications and skills. Yet the underlying physics is shared: one signal can carry a message, measure a distance and prove physical presence, at the same time. The separation is an artifact of traditional engineering, not a law of nature.
OOBi has developed a new technology that unifies the three functions in a single signal. Communication, positioning and sensing become properties of the same waveform, available simultaneously and combined freely, in whatever mix a product requires. A product that today needs a radio for data, an anchor network for position and a sensor suite for perception can draw all three from one signal.
The core method is protected by a granted European patent: method and device for implementing and managing secure communications, provisioning, authentication and signature. Priority April 2017, granted September 2021, with applicability across industries. A pipeline of new filings continuously extends the portfolio.
OOBi does not run on any existing radio technology. It belongs to a different category: Out Of Band technologies, which operate outside the conventional radio stack. While Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, NFC, 5G and UWB compete for RF spectrum, OOBi signals travel through alternative physical media: acoustic, mechanical, electric field (E), magnetic field (H), light.
The waveform is medium-agnostic and coding-agnostic. It operates on slow, fading-prone channels such as air and water, and it survives transport through any coding layer, from raw PCM to GSM and VoIP voice paths.
When waves propagate through slow media such as air and water, every surface reflects: direct and reflected paths overlap, fading is severe, and traditional modulations degrade. The OOBi waveform is engineered for exactly this regime. Severe multipath is its native environment, not an edge case.
The signal does not require a conventional carrier. Even quasi-static physical quantities can transport it: the orientation of a magnetic field, sampled against a clock, is enough to move data.
Voice codecs (GSM, CELP, VoIP) are built to compress speech, not to preserve data: they destroy uniform bit streams, mismatch pitch, formants and gain, and synthesize noise and artifacts at the decoder. The OOBi signal survives the full encode-decode chain intact. A data link can run through an ordinary phone call.
The same technology links app to app, app to PC, app to web and app to VoIP. And it extends natively to embedded systems: doors, turnstiles, ATMs, vending machines, vehicles, EV chargers, payment terminals. The baseband runs in user space on ordinary smartphones and laptops, and as firmware on existing MCUs and MPUs. No dedicated silicon, no infrastructure.
OOBi enforces security at the physical layer, below any protocol. Guarantees that radio links cannot offer.
Every exchange is bound to the time and place where it happens. A captured signal is useless if retransmitted.
No third party can insert itself into the channel: physical proximity is part of the cryptographic handshake.
Keys and identities are enrolled over a localized, RF-free channel, isolated from the network attack surface.
A private link built directly at the physical layer, independent of Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and NFC.
Distance is measured by the physics of the channel, with in-band time of flight, not declared by a protocol. Relay rigs simply do not work.
Continuous, high-precision position of the authenticated device for the entire session.
Every transmitter has a measurable physical signature that cannot be cloned or emulated.
Communication without electromagnetic radiation: nothing to intercept outside the room, and inherent suitability for EM-sensitive and ATEX environments.
Fluid, instant, bidirectional communication. No pairing, no codes, no configuration. The link is simply there when two devices are, and the same simplicity holds on every medium and every device class.
OOBi operates as a self-sufficient system or as a complement to conventional standards. Paired with Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, NFC, 5G or UWB, it enables use cases neither could deliver alone: OOBi carries trust, presence and control; radio carries bulk bandwidth when it is needed.
OOBi is not a component inside someone else's stack. A single physical-level engine consolidates ISO-OSI layers 1 to 4 (Physical, Data Link, Network, Transport) for proximity and remote peer-to-peer links, with sub-second synchronization and forward error correction even on slow media, and a transparent experience at the application layer.
Identity, payments, robotics, industrial IoT: one physical layer, combined differently for each context.
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