Motorola's public safety AI innovation

Motorola Solutions has launched SVX, which it describes as “a first-of-its-kind video remote speaker microphone that converges secure voice, video and AI.” It is designed for the company’s flagship radio, APX NEXT.

The company is also launching its AI-based Assist solution, which is designed to provide “contextual and actionable information that’s personalised for the time, person and place where decisions need to be made.” 

Discussing the technology, a spokesperson said: “As a converged and wireless device, SVX effectively halves the number of devices and reduces maintenance. Everyday shifts are covered with the swappable battery. 

“Critically, the convergence of radio, video and AI serves as a force multiplier, capturing and synthesising a greater diversity of data throughout an incident for more accurate police reporting and verified evidence.” 

The SVX solution also features ambient noise reduction, while its HD video "retains all ambient sound to protect the objective integrity of everything an officer sees and hears through the camera.” 

Assist meanwhile “redefines SVX from being hardware to actively supporting an officer in real time.” It enables – among other things – the ability to query a license plate and “automatically search for associated records or warnings.” It can also “turn SVX into a live language translator between an officer and a community member.”

Motorola’s executive vice president and CTO, Mahesh Saptharishi, said: “We’ve designed SVX and Assist to combine secure voice, video and AI with exceptional quality and capability for the people in uniform who protect us all.  

“Try using your everyday smartphone AI assistant with police sirens blaring; your message won’t be understood. Police officers need to confidently communicate wherever they are, and the quality of audio directly affects the usability of radio and video evidence.” 

Saptharishi continued: “Assist can support and verify [an officer’s] perspective, including identifying discrepancies. For example, [the solution] may flag that ‘the car is black - per video footage -, not blue,’ a finding that must be confirmed by a human. This is about augmenting human memory versus replacing it.”