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Motorola Solutions Video Surveillance Business Examined
March 6th, 2023Motorola Solutions Continues Video Security Acquisition Spree in 2022
May 16th, 2022
Exploring Motorola’s Acquisition of Ava Security & 2021 Financials
Motorola Solutions has added another company to its growing portfolio of Security brands, this time with the acquisition of Ava Security, a vendor of cloud video surveillance and analytics. Terms of the deal were not released at this stage, but in keeping with previous Motorola acquisitions, they will probably be released in a future financial […]

Motorola Solutions Purchases Envysion, their 5th Acquisition in Video & Access Control
Motorola Solutions continues its strategy of investing in its video surveillance and analytics business with the purchase of Envysion, a US physical security provider for the retail sector, for $124 million net of cash on 2nd November. Envysion’s loss prevention offering for quick-service restaurants, convenience, and specialty stores is a cloud-based solution. It integrates video systems […]

Massive Funding Rounds Flow into the Video Surveillance Market
Our smart buildings and smart cities are now being designed to sense and understand the world around them much like humans do. Networks of sensors hear via microphones in voice control, smell via air quality or gas monitors and feel via temperature, humidity, or pressure sensors. However, like in humans, sight is generally accepted as […]

Motorola Solutions Acquires Pelco for $110M in Cash, Continuing Video Investment Spree
Motorola Solutions continued its video acquisition binge this week with the purchase of Pelco for $110 million in cash. It marks their third video surveillance acquisition in the last two years, as they continue to try and position themselves among the industries top tier suppliers. It comes less than two months after their acquisition of […]

Physical Security Tech in Smart Buildings Attracted over $2.9Bn in Global Investment in 2019
This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson, Senior Research Associate at Memoori. Over $2.9 billion was invested in firms providing physical security solutions for residential, commercial and industrial facilities in 2019. The data from our new report on M&A and Investments in Smart Buildings H2-2019 reveals the extent of global investment in the physical security […]

Building the Security Business Through Merger & Acquisition; Has it Delivered?
Memoori have been collecting and analysing global M&A data in the Physical Security Industry covering the last 18 years. This article looks at the trends that have taken place over this period driven by the need for consolidation built around innovative products that deliver solutions. We review the impact M&A has had on developing winners […]
A Stable And Quiet Time For Security But Wireless Moves On
At the end of last year we forecast that the start of 2012 would offer little or no change in demand for physical security systems and that acquisition, alliance and sentiment about the future would be optimistic but sober. The first 2 months have borne this out; no announcements of billion dollar acquisitions, major investments […]
The Smart Grid Industry Continues to get itself into Shape but some Major Obstacles Remain
The Smart Grid business through acquisitions, alliances and funding continues to develop at a hectic pace and surprisingly, has not slowed down in July despite the fact that the holiday season has now got into full swing. All the evidence shows that the business continues to be very upbeat and confident about its future growth […]