Pelco

Pelco Incorporated
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryVideo surveillance, video management systems, and cloud technologies
Founded1957; 67 years ago (1957)
HeadquartersFresno, California, U.S.
Number of locations
Global
Key people
ProductsSecurity cameras, video management systems, hybrid cloud services
Number of employees
400+ (2019)
ParentMotorola Solutions[3]
Websitepelco.com
A CCTV camera housing made by Pelco.

Pelco Incorporated is an American security and surveillance technologies company. Founded in 1957 and headquartered in Fresno, California,[4] Pelco is a wholly owned subsidiary of Motorola Solutions. The company's products include security cameras, recording and management systems, and video analytics software.

History

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Pelco Sales was founded in 1957 in Hawthorne, California by E.L. Heinrich. Heinrich created Pelco Sales as a side project to his already successful mechanical aviation business. Pelco Sales' first product line consisted of pan-tilt devices and joysticks designed to remotely control the position of television cameras.[5] The demand for Pelco Sales' products grew rapidly, resulting in Heinrich's decision to abandon aviation and focus on camera technologies.

The company was moved to Gardena, California, and later to Fresno, California, to provide adequate workspace for product production. In June 1987, Rod Heinrich sold Pelco Sales to local investor David McDonald shortly after approving plans for an 80,000 square foot facility in Clovis, California.[citation needed] McDonald truncated the name to Pelco, in an event commonly referred to as the beginning of the "new" Pelco.[citation needed] The company continued to expand, reaching distribution in more than 130 countries.[citation needed] In 2000 the Small Business Administration awarded the company its Small Business of the Year award.[6]

After the events of 9/11, the company financed the construction of the California 9/11 Memorial at their corporate headquarters.[7][6] The memorial opened on December 8, 2001[8] less than three months after the attacks and includes objects recovered from ground zero, educational exhibits, and memorials with the names of the victims. In 2019 the memorial expanded with replicas of the pentagon and world trade centers.[9]

In 2007, French electrical equipment manufacturer Schneider Electric purchased Pelco for US$1.22 billion in an effort to enhance their building automation business.[10] Schneider Electric's ownership of Pelco came to an end when Pelco was acquired by Transom Capital Group, a private equity firm based in Los Angeles, in 2019.[11][12] In August 2020, Motorola Solutions announced that they had acquired Pelco for US$110 million in cash.[13][14][15]

Pelco's security and surveillance systems most notably protect Buckingham Palace, Sydney Opera House and The Statue of Liberty.[16][17] Pelco claims more than 1 million installations worldwide.[18]

Technologies

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Pelco produces security and surveillance products and is known for its pan tilt zoom (PTZ) technologies, multiple camera tracking of moving objects, and tracking of security breaches.[19][20][21][22] Additionally the company has over 250 patents assigned to the company.[23][24]

References

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  1. ^ "Pelco Appoints Kurt Takahashi CEO". 15 October 2019.
  2. ^ "Pelco Company Profile". 25 May 2022.
  3. ^ "Video Security & Access Control - Motorola Solutions - Europe, Middle East and Africa".
  4. ^ "Pelco Security Cameras and Surveillance Systems". www.pelco.com. Retrieved 2019-06-03.
  5. ^ Bradford, Lowell (2021-06-21). "Pelco Security Cameras: A Timeline of Success, and What's Next". Surveillance-video.com. Retrieved 2022-05-25.
  6. ^ a b Wright, John (2011). Clovis. Clovis Centennial Book Committee. Charleston, South Carolina. pp. 103–106. ISBN 978-0-7385-7613-8. OCLC 738363535.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  7. ^ News, FOX26 (2019-09-10). "New features unveiled at California 9-11 Memorial in Clovis". KMPH. Retrieved 2022-05-25. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  8. ^ Newvine, Steve (11 November 2010). 9 From 99 - Experiences in California's Central Valley. lulu.com. pp. 55–57. ISBN 978-0557836659.
  9. ^ "Expansion Projects". CA 9/11 Memorial. Retrieved 2022-05-25.
  10. ^ "Schneider Electric Finalizes Purchase of Pelco - asmag.com". www.asmag.com. Retrieved 2022-04-07.
  11. ^ "Pelco acquired by Transom Capital Group | Security Systems News". www.securitysystemsnews.com. Retrieved 2019-06-03.
  12. ^ "Pelco sold to U.S.-based private equity firm". www.securityinfowatch.com. 2019. Retrieved 2022-05-25.
  13. ^ "Motorola Solutions Acquires Pelco".
  14. ^ "Motorola Solutions Acquires Pelco For $110 Million". www.securityinformed.com. Retrieved 2022-05-25.
  15. ^ Tavlian, Alex (2020-08-03). "Pelco sold for second time in two years at $110mil price tag". The San Joaquin Valley Sun. Retrieved 2022-05-25.
  16. ^ Hurley, Paul. "Female farmworkers get support". VisaliaTimesDelta.com. Retrieved 2022-05-25.
  17. ^ "Pelco introduces Spectra IV IP camera-dome". www.securityinfowatch.com. 2008. Retrieved 2022-05-25.
  18. ^ Lasky, Steve (21 April 2017). "Recapturing the entrepreneurial mindset". www.securityinfowatch.com. Retrieved 2022-05-25.
  19. ^ Lv, Sai Dong; Tang, Guo Hua; Xia, Yao Wen; Xie, Ji Li (August 2013). "The Design and Implementaion [sic] of PTZ Control in Intelligent Video Surveillance". Applied Mechanics and Materials. 347–350: 1961–1964. doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.347-350.1961. ISSN 1662-7482. S2CID 110847938.
  20. ^ Sangkyu Kang; Abidi, B.; Abidi, M. (2004). "Integration of color and shape for detecting and tracking security breaches in airports". 38th Annual 2004 International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology, 2004. Albuquerque, NM, USA: IEEE. pp. 289–294. doi:10.1109/CCST.2004.1405407. ISBN 978-0-7803-8506-1. S2CID 14438304.
  21. ^ Sankaranarayanan, Karthik; Davis, James W. (2011), Kimmel, Ron; Klette, Reinhard; Sugimoto, Akihiro (eds.), "PTZ Camera Modeling and Panoramic View Generation via Focal Plane Mapping", Computer Vision – ACCV 2010, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 6493, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 580–593, doi:10.1007/978-3-642-19309-5_45, ISBN 978-3-642-19308-8, retrieved 2022-05-25
  22. ^ Jain, Shubham; Nguyen, Viet; Gruteser, Marco; Bahl, Paramvir (2017-04-18). "Panoptes". Proceedings of the 16th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks. Pittsburgh Pennsylvania: ACM. pp. 119–130. doi:10.1145/3055031.3055085. ISBN 978-1-4503-4890-4. S2CID 778362.
  23. ^ "Pelco Security Cameras & CCTV Systems by Schneider Electric". Pelco.com. Retrieved 6 November 2014.
  24. ^ "Patents Assigned to Pelco, Inc. - Justia Patents Search". patents.justia.com. Retrieved 2022-05-25.
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