Motorola Solutions buys UK thermal camera company Silent Sentinel

Motorola Solutions said on Wednesday it had bought British long-range thermal camera specialist Silent Sentinel to bolster its video security capabilities in locations like airports and oil and gas facilities. The U.S. company's chief technology officer, Mahesh Saptharishi, said Silent Sentinel had an "incredible strength" in thermographic imagining, with its cameras able to spot anomalies up to 30 kilometres away. "When you combine really highly accurate thermal pan tilt zoom cameras with a radar module that is integrated, it gives you the ability to very quickly detect potential targets approaching the perimeter," he said in an interview.