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| As we also mentioned earlier, video software sales more than doubled year-over-year |
| On the chip supply side, we remain in a good position |
| Our Premises business grew 15% year-over-year to a record $13.6 million, and our video software revenues more than doubled year-over-year |
| Second, by solidifying a reputation as a specialty applications provider, reinforcing our industry leadership as evidenced by our joint marketing and product initiatives with partners like NXP, Wiliot and CollectID and our R&D lab expansion that can support the entire range of customer profiles |
| I think the supply side is in very good shape, both from each vendor and also the diversification that we've got on vendors |
| We focused on maximizing share of wallet with federal customers reflected by our continued strong growth in federal billings of 16% year-over-year in Q3 |
| With more granular communication of near-term business performance and the expected completion of our strategic business alignment early next year, we believe we'll be well-positioned to build the business value we've been working towards as we head into 2024 |
| Premises overall revenue grew at more than double the industry's growth rate, while video and total software services and recurring revenues grew at an even faster rate |
| Commercial customer expansion with 14% revenue growth is on track with exciting potential based on many new product offerings and positive market dynamics |
| In RFID applications for IoT, we build value three ways: first, by supporting NRE projects and subsequent pilots for technically complex applications, which sustained higher margins and give us an edge for full-scale production orders for our SCRI applications |
| For federal customers, normally, Q3 is strong, and this quarter was no exception, with federal revenues growing 16% year-over-year |
| Federal growth was strong despite two short-term headwinds |
| So for Q4, we're anticipating revenues in the $29 million to $31 million range, with continued strong contribution from our Premises physical security business |
| In physical security, it is, by its nature, a solid performer through different economic cycles, but it's uniquely positioned for extraordinary growth given the growth drivers we've outlined |
| As you can hear from our comments, we're very positive about the value creation and industry leadership progress we think we're making in both of our businesses |
| As a result, we expect to keep our balance sheet and working capital strong as we build our competitive value in both of our businesses |
| In premises, we expect to continue the growth, margin strength and recurring revenue expansion |
| Despite these concerns, we expect our high-margin use cases in SCRI will continue to grow and expand to new customers |
| And third, by expanding our lower-cost production footprint in Thailand, giving us the scale and flexibility to be the best provider to the growing demand for RFID IoT solutions while simultaneously lowering our production costs, enhancing our cost competitiveness and supporting gross margin expansion |
| We're well-positioned and even ahead of this trend |
| I will elaborate further on the significant implications for these releases, but one notable metric of our progress is our high-margin software services and recurring revenues, which increased over 16% sequentially from Q2 to Q3 |
| GAAP and non-GAAP adjusted gross margins for Premises in the third quarter of 2023 were 60% and 61%, respectively, an increase of 2% compared to Q3 2022 and demonstrate our ability to expand our margin profile |
| Now the Premises business is taking advantage of several favorable trends in the Physical Security sector for which Identiv is exceptionally well positioned |
| To call out a few of these, Physical Security infrastructure is being used for other value-generating objectives within the enterprise driving strong and rapid ROI for investments |
| Next-generation cloud-based technology with recurring revenue models being deployed in Physical Security solutions, driving substantial customer upgrades and significant new market penetration |
| As the secure identity and data access requirements converge with physical security, we believe Identiv's technical expertise and product range is another advantage that none of our mainstream competitors can match |
| AI technologies deployed across physical security solutions dramatically enhancing efficacy and lowering total cost of operation |
| Identiv is especially well positioned to lead this emerging market demand |
| With Primis Cloud, we're piloting pricing models that we believe will accelerate ease of adoption for the channel enhancing recurring revenue growth |
| Video software doubled year-over-year and software services and recurring revenues grew to over 20% Premises revenue |
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| Third quarter 2023 revenue was $31.8 million, lower than our expectations, as previously noted |
| However, in the Identity business, mostly within the lower-margin products of our RFID segment, we had a major revenue shortfall, coming in about $3 million below what we had planned |
| This resulted in them being unable to issue new orders during the critical last weeks of the quarter, which have now resumed |
| In the Identity segment overall, margins declined primarily due to a year-over-year decline in gross margins in our Identity reader product line |
| The revenue miss is very frustrating, but it does not harm our core business progress in high-value Specialty Complex RF-enabled IoT solutions or SCRI |
| Given our Q3 revenue level of $31.8 million, this implies a Q4 below the $31 million range |
| We have challenges we can manage while we continue to focus on growing our business |
| Our Q3 Identity segment, GAAP and non-GAAP adjusted gross margins were 21% and 23%, respectively, a decrease of 2% and 1%, respectively, as compared to Q3 2022 |
| In Q3, we delivered 11 million units of Wiliot IoT pixels, down from the quarter prior level, partly because of a cost reduction process change we made |
| As we go into the end of 2023 and into 2024, we expect the shortfall that we had in Q3 and our lower-margin RFID products will be behind us |
| Second was a ransomware attack that hit one of our largest federal integrators |
| Additionally, product for one of our largest customers are shipped to Israel before going onwards to end users, we have to be realistic that shipments could be disrupted in that part of the world affecting our business |
| We also had a design change in a logistics application that affected Q3 revenue |
| We had three customers, in particular, push out orders in the library, packaging, and warehousing and logistics categories that delayed shipments, which we expect to recover by the end of Q1 |
| But again, I'm just very cautious because there were some push outs that were late in the quarter |
| But as you can hear from the commentary, we're trying to be cautious about customers that might be -- just not reliable |
| It's very frustrating with somethings to happen |
| The only challenge we have is this is a slow-moving segment, just getting the approvals through these organizations |
| And the biggest challenge is when you get a push out late in the quarter because we have to produce, we don't have a lot of flexibility to pivot on there |
| Just a clarification on your commentary regarding normal seasonality, looking into Q1, historically the identity business is down sequentially |
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