Our mission

To provide  a  real,  measurable advantage for our customers who engaged us to innovate    quality, cost effective solutions   for them, thereby enabling our customers to be  more successful in their own businesses or service deliveries.

Innovation examples

• First wireless portable electronic payments terminal

         Speedpoint   Portable - FNB 1992 

• First payment transaction terminal (FP300) with integrated MICR

        Check  reader - FNB 1994

• First portable electronic payments terminal with integrated 

       GSM   WAN communications, using USSD for transactions etc. - 1995

• Mobile payments terminal with biometrics & barcode scanning –     1997 
• Cellphone with attached integrated secure credit card, debit card 

        and smart card payments - TransAKT - 2000 

• Cellphone enabled RFID reader, demonstrated at RFID 2003 
• CellUPay cellphone based payment scheme - 2004
• MobiScan – 2D  cellphonebarcode scanner  for transactions - 2005
• Rugged mobile biometrics enabled device with GSM WAN, GPS, 2D 

       barcode reading, digital cameras, and UHF Gen 2 RFID   used for law 

       enforcement and government sector  2007

• Binky portable heart rate monitor (BodyiQ) with PC exercise 

       uploading - 2000 

• First UHF EPC RFID based sports timing system - 2000
• Clip on smart phone enabled sled with integrated biometrics, 

        printing and NFC - 2011

• Touch screen based  PIN  PAD combining both secure and  

       none-secure user interfaces with none-physical barrier  

      (demonstrated at 2015 Money2020 conference)

• Fully integrated payment terminal with integrated biometrics, NFC 

       and printer (demonstrated at Money2020 conference) fully   

       operational with biometrics payments

• TV commercial payment  solution (demonstrated at   

        2015 Money2020 conference)

• PetroPAY mobile phone based gas station forecourt payment 

       system  - demonstrated in 2018  

Who we are

Gerhard Mynhardt is  a technology sector entrepreneur with more than 25 years experience in managing technology based companies. He has always insisted that his companies innovate in order to achieve superior outcomes. Over the many years he has been responsible for the development of many 'word firsts', some of which are listed below. 

NovaTeqni (Pty.) Ltd  was founded by Gerhard Mynhardt in 2007 after the sale of his majority shareholding in SyGade and MaxID to a group of   international investors.   This lead to the incorporation of NovaTeqni USA LLC in 2014 under the guidance of Gerhard Mynhardt. 

NovaTeqni USA LLC  benefits from decades of experience in developing  and supplying world class, successful technology based products . These products and solutions were developed by Natech, SyGade, MaxID, and now NovaTeqni, all founded and managed by Gerhard Mynhardt over this period. Major OEM customers included IBM, ICL Fujitsu, Lucent, Metrologic, Vodacom, BCX and NEC. In this time a number of world first's were developed and  supplied, including the world’s first portable electronic card payment terminal developed for FNB. 

The core focus of NovaTeqni is the development and supply of reliable, world class and economically priced  identification based   solutions for  enterprise, government, financial institutions and corporates.  These solutions include biometric  capabilities,  enrollment, robust mobile solutions, elections  solutions,  Know Your Customer solutions and transaction solutions.  NovaTeqni is also a developer and supplier of off-grid solar solutions, especially for robust, mobile applications. 

Accordingly NovaTeqni USA is managed by  an experienced US based solution and product innovator.