Motorola Solutions opens new R&D centre in Ho Chi Minh City

Mahesh Saptharishi, executive vice president and chief technology officer of Motorola Solutions

Dinh Tien Son, director and chief scientist, Motorola Solutions Vietnam Research and Development Centre

Why did Motorola decide to build a R&D centre here in Vietnam?

Saptharishi: Vietnam is renowned globally for its high-quality engineering talent and focus on advancing the digital economy.

Vietnam also has high levels of STEM education and high adoption rates of digital technology among our public safety and enterprise customers.

Our local software team designs and develops technology that features prominently in our safety and security ecosystem and is used by customers worldwide. We're proud to open a new R&D centre that draws on the strengths of our local team, here in the heart of Vietnam's innovation district.

Son: The opening of this centre in Vietnam is great recognition of the software development capabilities of our highly-skilled staff. This team has a strong track record of consistently developing innovative and practical new technology solutions that address challenges across a variety of different fields.

We place great value in the engineering talent in Vietnam, and we will continue to build a team of highly skilled experts here.

What products are Motorola Solutions producing in Vietnam?

Our Vietnam team develops software solutions that leverage AI to create camera systems sensors and vehicle detection technologies.

These solutions feed directly into the command centres of public safety and enterprise organisations and help to dramatically improve public safety outcomes by focusing human attention where it's needed most. Used in public safety environments, that ultimately leads to improved decision-making and faster emergency response.

How does this new centre in Vietnam fit in with Motorola's global network?

Saptharishi: We have multiple R&D centres around the world, which help to drive innovation. Now we have a true centre of excellence for our software, AI and analytics technologies in the Asia-Pacific region here in Ho Chi Minh City.

This centre makes an important contribution to Motorola Solutions by designing and developing safety and security solutions used all over the world. This includes video security technologies that help capture vital insights from data, collate forensic evidence to support investigations, and improve emergency response and safety across the board.

What other activities is Motorola Solutions focussing on in Vietnam?

Saptharishi: We focus on three main areas, critical communications technology; video security and access control; and command centre software, which are used by emergency services to manage their workflows and data.

We have a strong presence in Vietnam's public safety and enterprise security market, with police agencies and other authorities using our voice communication and video security solutions.

Government agencies here are actually significant users of our video networks today. The Ministry of Public Security of Vietnam also implemented one of our TETRA digital trunked radio system in 2006, the first ever for Vietnam.

We look forward to continuing to invest in our local teams and highly skilled AI and data scientists and software engineers here to develop impactful solutions used all over the world.

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