Lantronix
"Innovation Reimagined"
Nasdaq-listed (LTRX) Irvine, California IoT and edge-compute company, founded 1989, now building edge-AI platforms for military drones.
Lantronix Inc. (Nasdaq: LTRX) is a publicly traded edge computing, connectivity, and industrial IoT company headquartered in Irvine, California, founded in 1989. The company's portfolio spans four broad areas: out-of-band management (console servers, KVM switches, and autonomous remote-management systems used to administer data-center and network infrastructure even when the primary network is down), network infrastructure products (managed switches, media converters, serial-to-Ethernet device servers, and network adapters), industrial IoT hardware (cellular gateways, routers, modems, and critical-asset monitoring devices for remote industrial sites), and embedded compute products, including System-on-Module (SoM) boards and development kits built on Qualcomm Snapdragon platforms for OEM customers building their own edge devices.
On the software side, Lantronix offers Percepxion, a cloud-based platform for remote device and network management, a networking-focused variant called Percepxion for Networking, and EdgeFabric.ai, a newer offering aimed at edge AI infrastructure management. The company also provides custom hardware, mechanical, software, camera, and audio engineering services for OEM and enterprise customers designing connected products.
Lantronix has expanded into defense and unmanned-systems applications: in 2026 the company announced a partnership with Swarmer to develop an edge-computing platform for military drones, and separately announced a Department of Defense solution partnership to deploy an edge AI drone platform in Ukraine, extending its industrial IoT compute technology into contested, mission-critical defense environments. The company's newsroom also lists an acquisition of Vecima Networks' industrial IoT business, aimed at expanding its critical-infrastructure monitoring platform and adding recurring, high-margin annual revenue, and it marked ten years of operations for its Lantronix India engineering office in 2026.
The company describes itself in official communications as serving "high-growth markets, including smart cities, enterprise IT and commercial and defense unmanned systems, including drones," and states it serves more than 2 million customers across a portfolio of more than 50 IoT products, including 15-plus UAV/drone customers, delivered from five global offices. Lantronix is led by CEO Saleel Awsare and reports approximately 250 employees on its own "About Us" page, though third-party financial data providers list a slightly different figure of 352 employees.
Lantronix's headquarters is located at 48 Discovery, Suite 250, Irvine, California 92618. The company's official social channels include LinkedIn, X/Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, and its brand tagline is "Innovation Reimagined." As a Nasdaq-listed company, Lantronix files periodic financial reports with the SEC and communicates through both direct press releases and investor-relations disclosures, but a dedicated public contact phone number or email address was not identified during this research.
Primary type & automation activities this supplier delivers:
xPico Wi-Fi
Chip-sized embedded Wi-Fi (802.11b/g/n) module with dual serial ports, SPI/USB, ARM Cortex-M3 core for UAV, surveillance, and IoT devices.
xPico 600 Embedded IoT Gateway
Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) embedded gateway module with Bluetooth 5.4 LE and Ethernet for robotics, AGVs, and industrial automation, up to 1.2 Gbps.
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WEBSITE
https://www.lantronix.com/HEADQUARTERS
United States
Company Facts
Founded
1989
Primary Role
Manufacturer
Company Size
employees 100-500
Primary Region
North America
Annual Sales
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Funding Stage
Public
Funding Total
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