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OPTEX SECURITY B.V.
Website cookie management
Privacy preference management
Enhanced website functionality
Indoor security solutions for warehouses
Advanced sensor systems for high-risk environments
Security system installation and maintenance
Detection-led security solutions
Manufacturing of PIR sensors
Providing security sensors and components
FlipX Advanced
FLX-A-DAM FlipX Advanced Grade 3 dual technology indoor PIR with antimasking
Indoor dual-technology Grade 3 sensor
Hardwired indoor Grade 3 dual technology (PIR+microwave)
Variable high mount 2.0-3.0 metres
Company name
Group Parent Subsidiary Customer Supplier Alliance Bank Shareholder

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1979-05-25 Founded on 25th May 1979, the idea and principles of the company were first agreed in a coffee house in Kyoto, Japan, between Toru Kobayashi, an electronics engineer and three of his colleagues. They had a vision for a new business, a business that had sensing technology at its heart, precision technology that could detect the 'status' and 'changes' of people and things.
1980 OPTEX developed and launched the OP-01, the world's first sensor for automatic doors based on far infrared rays. It was the take off for years of developing and innovating.
1983 OPTEX developed one of the first, wireless outdoor security sensors – a significant innovation in its time.
1987 The OA-10 was OPTEX's first sensor based on Active Infrared and it was the beginning of many successors based on this reliable detection method.
1990 OPTEX research and development has allowed for the innovation of the world's leading detection solutions. With the development of sensing algorithms and putting the detectors through their paces with 150 different tests, OPTEX delivers the gold standard.
1991 OPTEX opens EMEA Headquarters in the U.K.
1998 Introduced the Wonder Track digital event recording system in the digital CCTV system market.
2003 The first generation, Stereovision, was developed and became a phenomenon because of the anti tailgating and anti piggybacking solution. Nowadays it results in the advanced successor based on Time of Flight technology.
2008 The entrance market for EMEA became larger and larger, requiring its own headquarters. In 2008 OPTEX Technologies HQ opened and served the EMEA market ever since, expanding from residential and commercial applications to industrial sensors and vehicle detection.
2009 Developed laser technology for security applications and brought the innovative LiDARs REDSCAN RLS-3060 to the market.
2010 Fiber Sensys has been a leading manufacturer of perimeter security solutions since its inception, with global installations of over six-million meters of fiber and the sale of more than fifteen-thousand alarm processor units (APUs).
2012 Introducing OPTEX BLUEZONE™
2013 Developed the VX Infinity PIR, the world's best selling detection sensor. Vxi 250x165. OPTEX VX Infinity Series World Leading PIR Detection. VXI Series.
2018 Launching above-ground vehicle detection solution. The OVS sensors are launched and offer a practical and reliable above ground solution for vehicle detection and is the perfect substitute for the labour intensive ground loop.
2024 OPTEX celebrates its 45th anniversary. 45th history logo.
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