MOBOTIX – Who we are and what we do

MOBOTIX AG is a supplier of digital high-resolution and network-based digital video security systems. Headquartered in Langmeil, Germany, the company was founded as an Aktiengesellschaft (stock corporation) in 1999. To market the solutions worldwide, MOBOTIX uses distributors and qualified sales partners in more than 70 countries. MOBOTIX AG currently employs 300 people. Sales revenue amounted to approximately EUR 73m in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2011, which equals to a growth of 36 percent compared to the previous fiscal year. The company's EBIT margin amounted to 25 percent for the same period. Exports account for 76 percent of sales.

MOBOTIX camera systems use digital data transfer over computer networks and are not restricted by the low 0.4 megapixel image resolutions of the old analog video standard. The decentralized system architecture developed by MOBOTIX provides for image processing to take place in the actual cameras rather than in the central PC. This means that each camera independently detects movements in the image, stores them in a database and reports the event via e-mail or a VoIP telephone call. This decentralized structure reduces the load on the network, and the central video management system permits higher image rates and reduces the storage capacity required to record high-resolution video.

Their affordable decentralized architecture makes MOBOTIX video security systems ideal for a wide range of different applications from smaller installations of just a few cameras linked via the internet to large-scale surveillance applications involving hundreds of cameras using central control centers. MOBOTIX systems are already in use at airports, train stations, universities and logistics centers as well as in industrial applications for remote monitoring and automation. There are currently some 100,000 MOBOTIX cameras at work around the world.