In 1994 the office in Scotland was closed and the European business passed to a UK based independent distributor, ID Plus Ltd who were later acquired by HID Corporation Ltd in August 1999.

[4] It was at that point that the decision was made to focus efforts on RFID for physical access control, and five years later, the company was acquired by the world's largest lock-maker, Swedish conglomerate Assa Abloy AB.

[5] HID manufactures and licenses several types of technologies, from Wiegand products to 13.56 MHz iCLASS,[6][7] MIFARE, and DESFire, as well as the 125 kHz Indala and Prox cards.

It also has research and development centers in Cardiff, United Kingdom, Bangalore, Suresnes, Prague, Kraków and Zabierzów, Poland,[9] Fremont and Mountain View in Northern California.

[13] HID Global also worked with Inside Secure (formally known as Inside Contactless) and US Bank to supply HID iCLASS contactless smart card technology in the US Bank PayID card program that was the 2010 Paybefore Award Winner for Best Innovative Program.