- Business
- DataVan International Corporation (3521.TWO), founded in 1986 and headquartered in New Taipei City, Taiwan, designs, manufactures, and sells point-of-sale (POS) terminals and related hardware solutions worldwide through its Technology Business and Construction Business segments. The company provides a comprehensive range of products including touchscreen POS terminals such as the Alpha, Cubee, Glamor, Tango, Amber, and DAP-412A series; self-service kiosk terminals like Genius, Venus, and HiFive; modular POS systems; industrial PCs (IPCs) encompassing box PCs, panel PCs, rackmount servers, and embedded vision boards; epidemic prevention solutions featuring temperature detection and facial recognition like Facelook X1; POS peripherals; digital signage; and IoT management platforms such as DataVan Central and HiFive for device management, data analysis, and cloud-based operations supporting Windows and Android systems. It also offers biotechnology products including Testchip biochip testing devices, self-service beer dispensers under the YumQ sub-brand, kitchen display systems (KDS), and mobile payment terminals, serving retail, hospitality, healthcare, municipal, airport, banking, F&B, and industrial automation markets via OBM, OEM, and ODM models.
DataVan operates production facilities in Taiwan totaling 3,305 square meters with annual capacity of 8,000 to 12,000 units, and maintains subsidiaries including Maincon Corporation (acquired in April 2021), Shanghai DataVan Co., Ltd. (established 2019), and Homerune Development Co., Ltd. (established 2019), with additional locations in Penang, Malaysia, supporting sales territories across Asia, the United States, and Europe.
In recent developments, DataVan established a Biotechnology Business Division in 2022 to manufacture and sell Testchip biochip devices under a patented license, launched the Innovative Business Division with self-service beer dispensers integrating cloud management and cashless payments, upgraded POS terminals with new CPUs, and introduced DataVan Central as an advanced IoT platform; it deployed box PCs for chain parking lots and department stores in 2021 while expanding online sales channels. The company continues to advance intelligentization strategies, showcasing AI-driven solutions at COMPUTEX including DataVanGPT for voice-based recommendations on slim kiosks, AI Vision for eye-tracking analytics, AI Waiter for voice ordering on Venus kiosks, platform-based desktop POS, and enhanced retail software-hardware integration to address manpower shortages in airports and optimize passenger experiences with data-driven marketing.