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Motorola Vigilant
Fixed and mobile licence plate recognition with a shared law enforcement plate database
As of 1 September 2026, Motorola Vigilant's pricing is not published; the vendor quotes on request. Motorola Solutions' automated licence plate recognition line, built around the LEARN database where agencies pool plate reads. Softwr lists it under Cybersecurity. Motorola Vigilant is made by Motorola Solutions, available on Web, Windows, iOS, Android.
Overview
What Motorola Vigilant does
Vigilant is the automated licence plate recognition portfolio Motorola Solutions acquired with Vigilant Solutions. It comprises fixed LPR cameras on poles and infrastructure, mobile LPR units on patrol vehicles, VehicleManager analytics software, and LEARN, the law enforcement archival network where plate reads are stored and, critically, shared between subscribing agencies. Alerts fire on hotlist hits, and analysts can run convoy analysis, associate vehicles seen together, and reconstruct a vehicle's movement history from accumulated reads. The shared database is the product. A single agency's own cameras produce a modest dataset; LEARN aggregates reads across many agencies and commercial sources, which is why an investigator can locate a vehicle that never passed one of their own cameras. It is also precisely what draws the legal constraints. California's SB 34 imposes duties on ALPR operators including published usage policies and restrictions on sharing ALPR data with out-of-state and federal agencies, and California agencies have been audited and found in breach of exactly that. Motorola has faced litigation in Illinois over its role as an ALPR operator and end user. Several states and many municipalities require a public usage policy, retention limits, and council approval before an agency may procure ALPR at all. That means eligibility, not price, usually decides this purchase. A procurement officer needs to establish what the state statute permits, whether the agency can lawfully share into or query a multi-state database, what retention period is legally defensible, and whether a surveillance technology ordinance requires a public hearing first. Buyers are police departments, sheriffs, toll and parking authorities and some commercial repossession and insurance operations. The trade-off is a capability that genuinely closes cases against an ongoing compliance and public-scrutiny burden that outlasts any individual procurement.
What people use it for
- A police department building a hotlist alerting network on arterial roads into a jurisdiction
- An investigator reconstructing a suspect vehicle's movements across multiple agency jurisdictions
- A toll or parking authority enforcing against a registered vehicle list
- A sheriff's office locating a vehicle associated with an active AMBER or missing person alert
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- State law can decide eligibility outright: California's SB 34 imposes operator duties and restricts sharing ALPR data with out-of-state and federal agencies, and agencies have been audited and found non-compliant.
- Local surveillance technology ordinances increasingly require a published usage policy, retention limits and a public council hearing before purchase, which can add many months or block the procurement entirely.
- Motorola has faced litigation over its dual role as ALPR operator and end user, so the legal exposure of the data-sharing model is unresolved and sits partly with the purchasing agency.
- The value comes from the shared LEARN database, which means the capability an agency actually buys depends on what other agencies contribute, and that can shrink if peers withdraw for legal or political reasons.
- Nothing is published on price, and camera hardware, database subscription and analytics are separate line items, so the multi-year total is far higher than the initial camera quote suggests.
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Pricing
What Motorola Vigilant costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Vigilant LPR
On request
- Fixed and mobile camera hardware quoted per unit
- LEARN database access subscribed per agency
- Analytics software licensed separately
- Sold via public sector procurement and cooperative contracts
Capabilities
Features
Fixed LPR cameras
Pole and infrastructure mounted plate capture with hotlist alerting
Mobile LPR
Patrol vehicle mounted units capturing plates while on normal patrol
LEARN database
Shared archival network of plate reads across subscribing agencies
VehicleManager analytics
Convoy analysis, associate vehicles and movement reconstruction
Hotlist alerting
Real-time notification on stolen, wanted or watch-listed plates
Published API
Integration with records management and computer aided dispatch systems
Audit logging
Query logging to support the usage audits several states now require
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Questions people ask
Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.
What is LEARN?
The Law Enforcement Archival Reporting Network, the shared database where plate reads from subscribing agencies are stored and queried. It is the core of the product.
Can any agency buy it?
No. Several states restrict ALPR use and data sharing, and many municipalities require a published usage policy and a public hearing first. Check statute and local ordinance before budgeting.
Does California allow sharing with federal agencies?
SB 34 restricts sharing ALPR information with out-of-state and federal agencies, and California agencies have been audited on precisely that point.
Is it only for police?
No. Toll and parking authorities, and some commercial repossession and insurance operations, also use LPR, though the LEARN law enforcement network is agency restricted.
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