Urban Public Safety & Surveillance

Analogic Corporation, Altaris, LLC, and Leidos, Inc. announced the completion of their previously announced transaction combining Analogic with Leidos' Security Enterprise Solutions, Ports & Borders and Industrial Automation businesses. The combined company will operate under the Analogic brand as a privately held company headquartered in Salem, New Hampshire, and will be led by Analogic Chief Executive Officer Tom Ripp. The close marks the launch of a combined company focused on delivering mission-critical security imaging and detection solutions for airports, ports, borders, critical infrastructure, and other high-consequence environments. Kirkland & Ellis LLP and Hinckley Allen & Snyder LLP acted as legal advisors to Analogic, along with Ernst & Young LLP as accounting advisor, while Leidos retained PJT Partners as financial advisor, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP and DLA Piper as legal advisors, and KPMG as accounting advisor.

Motorola Solutions has acquired DeepNeuronic, a Portuguese developer of AI video analytics, in a deal advised by Young America Capital. Motorola Solutions acquired 100% of DeepNeuronic's share capital, including its Brazilian subsidiary, with terms not disclosed. DeepNeuronic was founded in 2021 by Vasco Lopes and Bruno Degardin, who met at Portugal's University of Beira Interior and earned their PhDs there in artificial intelligence and computer vision. Its software reads live camera feeds and flags incidents as they happen, and is already used by highway operators, airports, manufacturers and retailers in Portugal and Brazil. Motorola Solutions will build the technology into Avigilon, its video security platform, which serves customers in more than 100 countries, and DeepNeuronic's 17-person team is joining Motorola Solutions and will stay in Covilhã. Ran Zfoni, Vice President and Head of Israel & Europe Tech at Young America Capital, advised DeepNeuronic's founders through the transaction, while Cuatrecasas served as legal counsel to DeepNeuronic with a team led by partner Vasco Bivar de Azevedo.

Siemens Mobility has selected Teleste to deliver on-board passenger information and CCTV systems for the next generation of trains on the Copenhagen S-bane network operated by Danish State Railways (DSB). The initial contract value, excluding maintenance and additional train options, is approximately 40 million euros, with Teleste's deliveries scheduled to begin in 2028 and continue through 2040, and the first trains expected to enter passenger service in 2032. The project supports the modernization of the Danish railways through the introduction of 226 fully automated four-car trainsets, with an option for up to 100 additional units, creating the world's largest open railway system with automated train operation as part of the largest investment in the 90-year history of Copenhagen's S-bane network. Teleste's delivery includes on-board passenger information, public announcement, CCTV, and passenger communication systems, managed by its S-ARRIVE software platform. Valerian Sand, Executive Vice President, Public Safety and Mobility at Teleste, said the companies' first project together marks the beginning of a strong partnership in one of Europe's most significant rail modernization programs.

Anterix announced that the new iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone Duo are the first iPhone models to operate on dedicated private LTE networks using Anterix 900 MHz spectrum. The two models bring iPhone connectivity to dedicated private wireless networks running on band 106 licensed 900 MHz spectrum, giving critical infrastructure operators another device for field communications, operational applications, video, situational awareness and other mission-critical activities. Carlos L'Abbate, Chief Technology and Engineering Officer of Anterix, said an iPhone used every day by millions of people can now operate on the same private 900 MHz network infrastructure that supports mission-critical operations, calling it another clear sign that dedicated private wireless networks are becoming mainstream communications platforms. With iPhone now supported on Anterix 900 MHz Band 106 networks, operators can incorporate a widely used mobile device into the same dedicated network infrastructure supporting specialized devices and operational systems across their environments. Anterix trades on Nasdaq under the ticker ATEX.

Motorola Solutions has secured a US$139 million, 10 year statewide public safety technology contract with Louisiana covering multiple agencies. The agreement expands Louisiana's existing land mobile radio network partnership to include body cameras, evidence management tools and smart radios, spanning mobile video, digital evidence, command center software and radio infrastructure. The rollout adds real time situational awareness platforms and language translation capabilities for frontline personnel, and reinforces Motorola Solutions' role inside statewide programs such as the Louisiana Wireless Information Network, which supports over 109,000 users across multiple public safety agencies. The company said the deal lines up with its existing focus on multi year infrastructure refresh cycles, including D Series upgrades and a shift toward software and services. Investors will watch how management frames the deal and related public safety demand at the Truist Technology Symposium on 15 September 2026 and the Piper Sandler Growth Frontiers Conference on 16 September 2026.

Samsara now expects a thinner free cash flow margin and a fatter operating margin for fiscal 2027, as the company pays upfront for the IoT hardware that carries its AI subscriptions. The CFO said Samsara buys the devices upfront while revenue comes back ratably over the customer contract, and the company cited the IoT devices that faster growth needs, inventory it is prebuying as a buffer, and higher supply chain costs in the second half of fiscal 2027. Free cash flow margin is guided about 100 basis points below fiscal 2026, which on the $2.04 billion of revenue guided for fiscal 2027 works out to roughly $20 million, while the non-GAAP operating margin guide rose to 21% from 20%. More than 20% of Samsara's net new contract value came from emerging products in each of the last three quarters, and deals with a top-five U.S. city included more than $2 million of emerging products in fiscal Q2 2027. Samsara crossed $2.1 billion in annual recurring revenue in fiscal Q2 2027, up 30% over the past year, and raised its fiscal 2027 revenue, growth, operating margin and earnings guides at one release.

MemryX has signed a memorandum of understanding with Lenovo to expand the deployment of sovereign edge AI solutions across Saudi Arabia. The agreement builds on joint platform deployments already operating in the Kingdom and establishes a framework for the two companies to pursue additional opportunities across infrastructure, industrial operations, smart cities and video management, supporting Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030. The joint platform combines the Lenovo ThinkEdge SE455 V3 rugged edge server with the MemryX Cascade 100P AI accelerator to process video and sensor data on site, reducing latency and limiting reliance on centralized, power- and cooling-intensive AI infrastructure. The platform is already operating in large-scale infrastructure programs in Saudi Arabia, with one deployment delivering real-time construction safety analytics including personal protective equipment compliance and site safety event detection, and a second running compliance and site-monitoring workloads in a port environment across the operator's existing camera infrastructure. Under the MOU, Lenovo and MemryX will expand customer deployments in Saudi Arabia, validate the platform through a Lenovo Center of Excellence, develop additional solutions through Lenovo AI Innovation, and explore rack-scale server configurations for computer vision inference, supporting potential regional and global go-to-market opportunities.

Sansiri Public Company Limited, or SIRI, has announced the elevation of Sansiri Town Sukhumvit 77, or T77 Community, to Flagship Community status as a model for future residential urban development, on an area of over 50 rai in the heart of Sukhumvit under the concept of Community as a Lifestyle that combines Residential, Mixed-use, Retail, Education and Wellness together. The company plans to take this success and extend it to Sansiri Community projects nationwide, representing a combined value of over 100 billion baht. Currently within T77 Community there are more than 11 residential projects, of which 10 are Sansiri condominium projects. On the security side, Sansiri has upgraded to AI CCTV and Intelligent Security Monitoring working together with LIV-24 and a Command Centre around the clock, along with 12 automatic license plate recognition cameras installed at both the front and rear, and the establishment of a Sansiri Security Inspection team adding patrol rounds with electric motorcycles as frequently as 12 rounds per day. The strength of residential demand is reflected through the valles HAUS project, which achieved sales of 70% within just one year, while on the investment side T77 has average rental yields as high as 6% per year and asset value growth of around 15 to 20%.

Nokia has launched Cognitive Operations, a new commercially available platform that unifies mission-critical communications, accelerated edge computing and operational AI in a single field-deployable system, initially targeting the mining, public safety and defense markets. The platform gives operational teams real-time site and asset intelligence through AI-agentic assistance, a live 3D digital twin of operations, real-time video analytics, predictive maintenance and autonomous safety monitoring, and it can be deployed on-premises or hosted on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. At the edge of the platform sits Nokia's Cognitive Edge Node, a rugged network and edge compute platform with embedded on-device GPU-accelerated computing that brings intelligence to field-deployed vehicles and remote locations; Nokia collaborated with Rajant to integrate its InstaMesh technology directly into the Cognitive Edge Node. Cognitive Operations launches with three vertical applications: CO for mining, its flagship product for the mining industry, available on-premises and on-cloud through the Microsoft Azure Marketplace; CO for emergency services, which introduces the Vehicle as a Node concept so that police cars, fire trucks and ambulances self-organize into a distributed field intelligence network; and CO for defense, which extends the platform to the battlefield edge for sensor fusion, video analytics and threat detection across 5G, tactical radio and satellite. Lelio Di Martino, General Manager of Cognitive Operations for Nokia, said the launch extends AI directly into the field, and Ildefonso de la Cruz Morales, Senior Principal Analyst at Omdia, said the convergence of AI, edge computing and mission-critical communications is becoming a key requirement for organizations seeking to improve operational performance and worker safety.

Digital Zhengtong recently launched the Xingkui 2.0 urban low-altitude operation service platform, advancing the low-altitude economy from concept validation to real-world deployment. Xingkui 2.0 is a comprehensive upgrade of the company's Xingkui Plan, an air-space-ground integrated city-level low-altitude economy SaaS platform. Centered on artificial intelligence, it builds a low-altitude intelligent service operation system featuring airspace coverage, full-process management and control, and all-factor coordination. The Xingkui Plan has already deployed over 500 drones nationwide, landing in nearly 100 cities including Fuzhou, Wenzhou, and Changchun, and will implement more than 30 low-altitude application scenarios by 2026. At the launch event, the Low-Altitude Plus Urban Governance White Paper, jointly compiled by Digital Zhengtong and Central University of Finance and Economics, was officially released, and the Low-Altitude Economy Industry-Academia-Research Innovation Practice Demonstration Base, co-established by both parties, was unveiled. In addition, Digital Zhengtong has formed strategic partnerships with upstream and downstream enterprises in the low-altitude economy industrial chain, engaging in deep cooperation in areas such as data collection, intelligent perception, airspace planning, and urban governance.

Jishi Media has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the Yushu Municipal People's Government to promote comprehensive digital transformation under the Digital Yushu initiative. The two sides will gradually scale up the results of a previously launched smart agriculture pilot, aiming to build a benchmark smart city for county-level regions in Northeast China. The cooperation will upgrade from a single agricultural digitalization scenario to a full-dimensional government-enterprise collaboration system covering urban governance, public services, industrial upgrading, and digital infrastructure. Jishi Media will prioritize strengthening Yushu's digital foundation by upgrading information and communication networks, building a city-wide IoT sensing system and a local cloud computing platform, while simultaneously providing communication resources and county-level brand promotion channels. Jishi Media Chairman You Zhiqiang stated that the county-level market is the main battlefield for building Digital Jilin, and Yushu Party Secretary Liu Jinglei noted that the construction of a digital and intelligent Yushu has been incorporated into the city's key plans for the 15th Five-Year Plan period.

NextNav and Safran Electronics & Defense have announced an agreement to integrate and demonstrate interoperability between NextNav's terrestrial 5G Positioning, Navigation, and Timing network in Santa Clara County, California, and Safran's timing and navigation receiver. The collaboration aims to evaluate how terrestrial 5G-powered PNT capabilities can complement existing navigation and timing technologies and contribute to more resilient positioning, navigation, and timing solutions for drones, autonomous systems, critical infrastructure, and public safety operations. The program will assess how terrestrial PNT signals can provide additional layers of continuity, redundancy, and resilience for mission-critical applications that depend on assured positioning and timing services. Results from the testing program will support ongoing assessments of performance and applicability across critical infrastructure, autonomous systems, public safety, and national security use cases.

KeepZone AI, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nexera Technologies, has entered into an exclusive distribution agreement with Israeli firm Kronomy to market fully managed autonomous aerial security services across Latin America, from Mexico to Argentina. Under the two-year deal, KeepZone becomes Kronomy's sole distributor, business development collaborator, and sales channel for all current and future products, including drone-in-a-box systems and AI-powered threat analysis. Kronomy's service combines on-site autonomous drones with 24/7 manned command and control centers, having already completed more than 12,000 operational flights for clients in Israel such as critical infrastructure sites and healthcare facilities. The partnership aims to integrate autonomous aerial surveillance into KeepZone's existing homeland security portfolio, which includes perimeter protection and counter-unmanned aircraft systems, targeting government agencies, critical infrastructure operators, and smart-city authorities in the region.

BiomX subsidiary Zorronet has entered into a strategic collaboration with Czech company Samura to deploy AI-powered monitoring solutions across Central and Eastern Europe. The partnership will initially focus on two projects: an AI-driven pest management system for agriculture and urban settings, and an early warning system to protect critical transportation infrastructure by detecting animals and unauthorized people. Samura will lead business development and commercialization, while its division Digital4Pest will handle technical implementation. The collaboration marks a milestone in Zorronet's European growth strategy and extends its technology beyond defense into commercial markets.

The Digital Economy Promotion Agency, or DEPA, organized the third Cloud Transformation Local Connect event in Chiang Mai province to encourage local government organizations in 17 northern provinces to adopt software-as-a-service on the cloud. The initial target is for no fewer than 400 local government agencies nationwide to use cloud-based software services, which will benefit over 4 million citizens through digital services, upskill more than 4,000 government officials in cloud technology, and generate an economic impact exceeding 133 million baht. At the event, 100 digital services bearing the dSURE certification mark were selected, divided into three groups: citizen service systems, internal efficiency enhancement systems, and systems promoting seven aspects of smart cities. DEPA supports usage rights worth up to 200,000 baht per project for a period of no less than 12 months. This activity is part of the Cloud Transformation project, which is held four times across all regions. This third event follows the central and eastern region event in Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya province and the northeastern region event in Khon Kaen province, and will conclude in the southern region on August 3, 2026.

Sky ICT Public Company Limited, or SKY, has announced it is moving forward with its aviation technology business to drive long-term growth, with plans to develop an airport management platform and AI humanoid robots targeting the global market. Chief Executive Officer Sittidej Mayalarp revealed that the aviation industry is on an upswing, with global passenger numbers expected to grow by around 20 to 25 percent in 2026, while passenger numbers in Thailand are projected to grow by an average of 5 to 7 percent per year and will accelerate in the fourth quarter of 2026, which is the tourist season. Meanwhile, Airports of Thailand has plans to expand Suvarnabhumi Airport from a capacity of 60 million passengers per year to 75 million in the next three years, and to 140 million by 2034, which will be a factor driving increased demand for airport management technology. SKY is also developing the OCC Platform, a comprehensive ground handling management platform, with plans to launch it in international markets in 2030, while also pushing into the humanoid robot business through a joint venture with AGIBOT and TKC, in which SKY holds a 55 percent stake, to develop Thai-language AI and a large language model, aiming to deploy robots in actual airport operations by the end of this year. Currently, SKY provides technology systems at 13 airports nationwide, and as of the end of the first quarter of 2026, it had a backlog valued at 25.287 billion baht, with over 90 percent being long-term projects in the Technology as a Service segment.

Gosuncn's holding subsidiary, Gosuncn Zhilian Technology, has won the bid for the Xinyang Public Security Traffic Police Detachment's electric vehicle registration management platform project, with a bid amount of 20.132084 million yuan. The procurement content mainly includes electronic coding labels, electric vehicle coding registration and identification services, and more.

Flock cameras provided vehicle data that helped the Tooele County Sheriff's Office identify and arrest a suspected serial arsonist in Stockton, Utah. A series of deliberately set fires near homes forced residents to evacuate with little warning around June 10, 2026. The suspect was booked on three counts of arson and causing a catastrophe, among other charges, and had a prior arson conviction from 2015. Investigators continue to review additional tips and footage to determine if he may be linked to other recent fires in the region.

Hitachi and Tobu Railway, among others, launched a facial recognition system at the ticket gates of Tobu Tojo Line Ikebukuro Station on the 15th. By registering facial data and commuter pass information in advance, passengers can pass through the gates hands-free.

AT&T and Ericsson completed a live test of advanced 5G network sensing for drone detection, using existing infrastructure with AI-driven algorithms to detect, locate, and track drones in real time. The trial targeted integrated sensing and communications, a capability often linked with future 6G concepts, and showed how AT&T's network could support security and monitoring uses beyond traditional mobile and broadband services. By using Ericsson's Massive MIMO radios and AI-enabled sensing algorithms on current towers, AT&T demonstrated how its infrastructure could help venue operators, airports, and public agencies detect and track drones at 300 to 400 feet without adding separate radar systems. The work aligns with AT&T's narrative around converged connectivity and could represent an additional optional service line over time, though turning demonstrations into contract-backed services will likely require capital, sales effort, and regulatory coordination. Investors may watch for signs that these trials turn into repeatable offerings, such as commercial agreements with stadium operators or city agencies.

The global air quality monitoring market is projected to grow from US$ 7.23 billion in 2025 to US$ 14.37 billion by 2034, at a compound annual growth rate of 7.9%. North America is forecast to account for over 18.67% of global market share by 2034, while Europe held the second-largest share at over 42.41% in 2025, with the France market projected to grow at a 6.6% CAGR through 2034. Hardware dominates the market, driven by increasing deployment of fixed and portable monitoring stations, and the outdoor segment registers the fastest CAGR. Key growth drivers include rising demand for advanced monitoring solutions across industrial and urban environments, integration of IoT and AI, and expanding smart city initiatives, though high equipment costs and complex implementation remain challenges.