Digital Angel, Inc. develops global positioning satellite (GPS) and radio frequency identification (RFID) technology products for consumer, commercial, and government sectors worldwide. Headquartered in South St. Paul

South St. Paul, Minnesota

South St. Paul is a city in Dakota County, Minnesota, immediately south and southeast of the city of Saint Paul, Minnesota. It is also southeast of West St. Paul, Minnesota. The population was 20,160 at the 2010 census. It is notable as one of the historic major meat packing cities in the United...

, Minnesota, their products offer security for people, animals, the food supply, government/military arena, and commercial assets. Included in this product line are RFID applications, end-to-end food safety systems, GPS/Satellite communications, and telecommunication

Telecommunication

Telecommunication is the transmission of information over significant distances to communicate. In earlier times, telecommunications involved the use of visual signals, such as beacons, smoke signals, semaphore telegraphs, signal flags, and optical heliographs, or audio messages via coded...

, security infrastructure and the controversial Verichip

VeriChip

VeriChip was the only Food and Drug Administration -approved human-implantable radio-frequency identification microchip. It was marketed by PositiveID, a subsidiary of Applied Digital Solutions, and it received United States FDA approval in 2004. Its manufacture and marketing were discontinued in...

 human implant, a product which has caused concern among advocates of civil liberties

Civil liberties

Civil liberties are rights and freedoms that provide an individual specific rights such as the freedom from slavery and forced labour, freedom from torture and death, the right to liberty and security, right to a fair trial, the right to defend one's self, the right to own and bear arms, the right...

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Applications for this technology include pets, wildlife and livestock identification using implantable RFID microchips, scanners and antennas.

Digital Angel has also researched and developed GPS search and rescue beacons that integrate geosynchronous communications for use by the military and the private sector to track aircraft, ships and other high value assets.

Subsidiaries

Digital Angel GPS and RFID products enable the rapid and accurate identification, location tracking, and condition monitoring of people. Applications of their products include identification and monitoring of pets and fish with implantable RFID microchips, identification of livestock with ear tags, GPS based search and rescue beacons for aircraft, ships, boats, and individuals.

Animal Identification Segment

• Daploma
• Destron Fearing - Leading US manufacture since 1945. Pioneered microchip technology for animals in 1980s.

Asset Identification Segment

• Signature Industries LTD. - UK-based company since WWII, supplying electric safety products, and major supplier to the RAF.

• SARBE - Encrypted GPS emergency beacons for military forces
• McMurdo - Supplier of maritime emergency location beacons and navigational devices in Europe

Digital Angel owns a minority position (49%) in VeriChip

VeriChip

VeriChip was the only Food and Drug Administration -approved human-implantable radio-frequency identification microchip. It was marketed by PositiveID, a subsidiary of Applied Digital Solutions, and it received United States FDA approval in 2004. Its manufacture and marketing were discontinued in...

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Chief executive officer

• Joseph J. Grillo (President/CEO): CEO of Digital Angel since January 2, 2008, succeeding Kevin McGrath. Grillo is the former President and Chief Executive Officer of the Global Technologies Division of Assa Abloy
  Assa Abloy
  The Assa Abloy Group is a Swedish lock manufacturer, the world's largest by sales. Assa Abloy was formed in 1994 when ASSA AB was detached from Swedish security firm Securitas AB. Shortly thereafter the Finnish high-security lock manufacturer Abloy Oy was acquired. The company was introduced to...
  
  . Randy Geissler was CEO from 2000 - 2003.