The consultancy years
Influx Technology was founded in 1999 by Lance Keen as an automotive data consultancy. Capturing vehicle network data at the time was a clumsy business: every measurement campaign required a laptop tethered to an interface tool on the passenger seat. It worked on a bench, not on a test track.
The consultancy years were spent inside OEM engineering programmes, embedded with teams trying to extract usable signal from CAN networks still maturing as a standard. That direct exposure to the day-to-day frustration of vehicle data acquisition became the foundation of everything that followed.
From consultancy to product
In 2003 Ford commissioned us to build a CAN bus analyser. Module Analyser was the result: our first product, a 5-in-1 environment combining CAN, LIN and FlexRay monitoring, OBD and UDS diagnostics, J1939 and data acquisition. It pulled together capabilities that had previously required four or five separate tools.
Module Analyser also marked the start of our embedded engineering base in Bulgaria, which has been the home of our software and firmware development ever since. The combination of a UK engineering team working directly with OEM customers and a dedicated R&D centre in Bulgaria is the operating model we still use today.
The REBEL era
In 2007 we launched REBEL, our first standalone CAN data logger. It captured vehicle network data autonomously with onboard storage and no laptop required. Engineers could finally leave a logger in a vehicle and collect data across an entire test programme without being present.
REBEL scaled rapidly into automotive R&D worldwide and became the foundation product on which everything else was built. The platform extended into multi-CAN and multi-ECU capture, and into DIALOG, the configuration and analysis software that turned a logger into a complete data acquisition system.
Modular platforms and global footprint
At Automotive Testing Expo Detroit in 2014 we launched the K-Box and the next-generation REBEL range. The change was architectural: a stackable, modular platform combining data logging with thermocouple, analogue, PWM and digital sensor measurement on a single CAN backbone.
Our geographic footprint expanded at the same pace. Influx Asia opened in Beijing in 2016, the UK operation moved into Millbrook Proving Ground, and Influx Big Data Solutions launched in Bangalore in 2019. CAN FD, FlexRay and large-scale thermocouple measurement through the K-TC range all came online.
From tools to data infrastructure
The connected vehicle era changed what engineering teams needed. A single reliable logger was no longer enough; programmes now spanned prototype benches, validation fleets and connected production vehicles, and the data had to move between all three without losing fidelity.
In 2021 we launched REXGEN, a deliberate reset designed for the connected-vehicle era. CAN, CAN FD, LIN, GNSS and IMU capture in a single device, with GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou and Galileo support. We stopped framing what we built as data loggers and started framing it as data infrastructure.
Investment and REXGEN Pro
In 2024 we closed a pre-seed investment round alongside a £300,000 government-backed regional growth loan via The FSE Group. The funding accelerated REXGEN Pro, our flagship platform for OEM and corporate fleet deployment, which launched in 2025 after three years of engineering.
REXGEN Pro is engineered for production: edge processing, multi-CAN and LIN support, integrated LTE and hardware-secure data via NXP EdgeLock. Today Influx Technology supports OEMs, tier-one suppliers, motorsport teams and research groups across more than 40 countries.
