EchoRing: Peppermint Group Invests in the New R3 Solutions

Highly available and responsive wireless technologies are an indispensable core component of the continued automation of industry and the Industrial Internet of Things. With EchoRing from R3, such technology is already available to the industry today.

Further development of EchoRing technology will now be handled by the newly founded R3 Solutions GmbH, which emerged from R3 - Reliable Realtime Radio Communications GmbH. Dr.-Ing. Mathias Bohge and Florian Bonanati have joined the new company as managing directors. The Peppermint Industrial Group holds a stake in the new company. Mathias Bohge explains: “With Peppermint, we have a strong and reliable partner with whom we can jointly advance EchoRing and industrial real-time radio networks.” The new structure provides R3—which will continue to operate independently—with the ideal environment for the further development of EchoRing technology. Florian Bonanati: “As part of the Peppermint family, we benefit from strong synergies and are part of a highly innovative business cluster.”

For the Peppermint Group, R3 Solutions is the starting point for the development of the new visionary business division “Wireless Technologies & Sensors.” Marcus Baumbach, managing partner at Peppermint: “With our investment in wireless industrial communication, we are opening a new chapter at Peppermint. This includes wireless systems as a key digital technology of the future, which make industrial processes independent of cable connections and thus less prone to errors. Wireless communication in industry is a key driver of Industry 4.0 and therefore fits perfectly into our corporate strategy for sustainable and smart industrial production of the future.”

About R3

Berlin-based R3 Solutions specializes in high-performance solutions for the wireless transmission of industrial data in a wide range of machine-to-machine communication applications. The EchoRing technology developed by R3 combines the reliability of a wired connection with the flexibility of a wireless network, achieving latencies of less than 5 milliseconds. Users of EchoRing technology already include well-known companies such as ABB, the BMW Group, Conductix-Wampfler, and Rivian.

About Peppermint

Peppermint Holding GmbH is an owner-managed industrial group that employs over 650 people at seven locations across Europe. As an industrial group, Peppermint operates in the business areas of innovative textiles, smart laboratories, and wireless technologies & sensor systems. In addition, the company invests in forward-looking technology firms and manages a venture fund in the field of digital health.