Motorola Solutions acquires Calipsa

Motorola Solutions announced it has acquired Calipsa, a cloud-native advanced video analytics technology company based in London, UK.

Calipsa’s scalable platform enables businesses to optimise security with AI-powered analytics that verify alarms, enable content-based searches, detect tampering and assess the health of cameras in real time. The solution is relied upon by enterprise and security monitoring customers around the world.

According to Greg Brown, chairman and CEO of Motorola Solutions, with Calipsa, the company can rapidly extend intelligent analytics across any video security solution and support.

“We believe AI, spanning from the edge to the cloud, is driving the future of video security,” Brown said.

Calipsa’s unique cloud-based technology allows customers to add AI to existing IP-based cameras without additional hardware, enabling new analytics capabilities on the millions of IP-based cameras already deployed.

Mohammad Rashid, CEO of Calipsa, added that both Calipsa and Motorola Solutions share the mission of keeping enterprises and communities safe to the accelerate the trend of enterprises using cloud technologies to enhance safety and security.

“Joining the Motorola Solutions team enables us to accelerate the development and broaden the reach of our innovative technologies that transform video from a retroactive investigative tool into a proactive response tool,” Rashid said.

Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.