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MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS u www.motorolasolutions.com u www.trxsystems.com Motorola Solutions is a leading provider of innovative mission-critical communications solutions and services for government agencies and business enterprise. In November 2012 the company, through its strategic investment arm, Motorola Solutions Venture Capital, announced its investment in TRX Systems Inc. The purpose of the venture was to fund integration of the TRX Indoor NEON Location system with Motorola radios to expand industrial and commercial location applications. TRX Systems is the developer of NEON, a tracking system that delivers locationbased data on people who are indoors, underground, and in urban areas where GPS is either unavailable or unreliable. Scheduled for distribution in the third quarter of 2013, TRX NEON Indoor Location System is an application that is and mapping algorithms to augment compatible with Motorola's APX por- GPS, Wi-Fi, and other fxed references in table radios. APX radios wirelessly pair buildings. The system provides real-time to the TRX NEON tracking unit, send- 2D and 3D location, dynamic mapping, ing real-time location information and clear views of activity and status, and precise details to incident commanders logging capability. about personnel movement and activity. "The TRX NEON Indoor Location The NEON solution is being made System used on Motorola Solutions APX available for event security, training, and radios is the most advanced missionother mission-essential applications re- critical application available for public quiring a highly portable system that can safety users," said Steve Gorecki, Senior deliver precision indoor location. NEON Manager of Media Relations at Motorola. uses advanced sensor fusion, ranging, "The seamless integration of the TRX Northrop Titus 2 NEON and Motorola Solutions APX radio, complemented by the portability of the combined solution, enables rapid deployment of tracking for personnel operating indoors and in dense urban areas where GPS signals are unavailable or unreliable." NEON is available in a Mission Essential implementation for security, public safety, and defense applications that delivers indoor location in a robust form factor and includes Command Software to visualize personnel outftted with custom-built NEON Tracking Units as they operate indoors. On-scene confguration tools that include easy building rendering, rapidly deployable Multi-Sensor Anchor Nodes, Near-Field Check-In Tags, Waypoints, and foor plan information may be used in fxed site applications to enhance precision. The TRX NEON System has been developed with the support of the National Science Foundation, the Department of Homeland Security S&T;, the Maryland Fire and Rescue Institute, the US Army, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. NORTHROP GRUMMAN u www.northropgrumman.com A leader in innovative global security solutions and commercial customers worldwide, Northrop Grumman pro- www.lawandordermag.com 41