Motorola Solutions Penang engineers the future of "borderless" innovation

Motorola Solutions’ Penang research and development (R&D) centre is committed in engineering “borderless” innovation for communication devices and security solutions for public safety.

Its Managing Director Dr Hari Narayan said, Motorola Solutions Inc became one of the earliest R&D centre producing revolutionary products, by adapting Connected Police Officer concept, a collection of technologies that help to keep first responders safe by instantly sending and receiving critical information from their immediate environments.

This concept includes future-oriented technologies such as smart belts, body-worn cameras, LTE devices, and sensors that provide location and bio-metric readings.

As Motorola Solutions continues its evolution into a software and services business he added, collaboration and growth are essential to riding the next wave of innovation.

“Malaysia is a strategic R&D site for Motorola Solutions. We are proud to have applied local skills and capabilities over the past 40 years to drive R&D and innovation all over the world.

“This has enabled Penang to become the largest developer of devices for Motorola Solutions globally, and to become the company’s largest investment in R&D outside of North America.

“That’s why we have developed strong local partnerships with innovative, local R&D companies while continuing to build a healthy ecosystem of skilled talent and resources in Malaysia,” he said to Astro AWANI during a media visit to the R&D centre here in conjunction with Motorola Solutions 40th anniversary.

The global R&D centre celebrates its 40th anniversary this week, reflecting four decades of continuous innovation while planning for new opportunities for its 1,000 highly-skilled engineers to develop next generation devices and solutions for customers worldwide.

Over the past four decades, Motorola Solutions’ Penang R&D facility has designed technology solutions to enable organisations to work more effectively while reaching higher levels of safety and productivity.

In parallel with the 40th anniversary of the R&D facility in Penang, a new Network Operations Centre (NOC) was unveiled at the facility to monitor and manage customers’ essential communications.

Staffed 24/7 by a skilled and dedicated team, the centre will provide guaranteed reliability and availability to keep communications networks operating at peak performance while customers focus on their core operations.

“We believe in continued innovation and with the right solution to our customers, we will en-sure incremental growth to this organization.

“One of the things we are doing now is working closely with local universities to see how we can its graduates and students can contribute their talent to our innovation,” he added.

Also present at the event were Executive Vice President Products and Services Bruce Brda and Vice President of Corporate Claudia Rodriguez.