Nexxiot
Nexxiot is a Swiss provider of IoT-based asset intelligence for rail freight and intermodal logistics, headquartered in Zurich and founded in 2015. The company employed around 120 people as of June 2024, with operations in Switzerland, the United States, and the Nordic countries.
Knorr-Bremse acquired a strategic minority stake in Nexxiot in May 2022 and is the company’s largest shareholder, having invested EUR 60 million at the time of the transaction. Dr Maximilian Eichhorn, previously Vice President Digital Products and Services at Knorr-Bremse, was appointed CEO in June 2024.
Products and services
The core hardware product is the Globehopper, a ruggedised IoT gateway designed for deployment on railcars, tank wagons, and intermodal shipping containers in hazardous field conditions. The device transmits location, motion, shock, temperature, and load status data at five-minute intervals to the Nexxiot Connect cloud platform.
Connect provides real-time fleet visibility, alert processing, predictive analytics, and APIs for integration with operator fleet management systems. In April 2026, Nexxiot integrated Swift Navigation’s Skylark precise positioning service into the Globehopper, enabling location accuracy at track level — a precision not available from standard GNSS receivers.
Knorr-Bremse’s rail division integrates Nexxiot’s Connect cloud analytics with its CubeControl brake control systems and climate control units under a joint telematics programme, with device production beginning in 2024.
Certifications and standards
Globehopper devices carry IECEx certification and ATEX labels IIC and IIIC, permitting deployment in Zone 1 and Zone 21 hazardous environments including tank wagons carrying gases, chemicals, and petroleum products. Nexxiot participates in the RailPulse consortium, the North American industry initiative for standardised freight wagon telematics interoperability.
Reference projects
Customers include Innofreight (Austria), which has equipped its entire fleet of over 2,700 InnoWaggons operating across more than 20 European countries with Globehopper devices; VTG; Atir Rail (Paris, 4,500-wagon fleet); Tyczka Gase; and TTX Company. As of June 2024, Nexxiot technology was deployed on around one million railcars and shipping containers globally, spanning both rail freight and intermodal logistics applications.
Recent activity
In February 2026, Pairpoint — a joint venture between Vodafone and Sumitomo Corporation — signed a commercial agreement with Nexxiot to integrate Pairpoint’s data provenance technology into Nexxiot’s rail device family.
The partnership extends an existing collaboration into rail freight, combining Nexxiot’s real-time asset visibility with Pairpoint’s cryptographic data verification, allowing rail operators to independently verify the provenance of sensor data across the supply chain.