Smartvue

The Smartvue IoT video and cloud surveillance services platform transforms how telco, cable, security, storage, device manufacturers, and other industries create new value for their customers and new revenue for themselves. The end-to-end Smartvue platform as a service (PaaS) supports connected devices that require video capture, security, transport, cloud storage, management, and distribution in a simple and elegant interface, cost-effectively delivered at scale worldwide to almost any device. The company has the industry’s leading portfolio of 75 utility patents (including patents in China as well as Europe). Acquired by Johnson Controls in April 2018. Smartvue is financed by the Fortress Investment Group (NYSE: FIG), a diversified global investment management firm with more than $70B in assets. The Smartvue board of directors includes David Dorman (former Chairman and CEO of AT&T and current board member of PayPal, Dell, Motorola, YUM, and CVS Chairman), Art Laffer (former Economic Advisor to President Ronald Reagan and Chairman of Laffer Investments), Bert Ellis (CEO of Ellis Communications Venture Capital), Chairman Daniel Knotts (CEO of Electronic Evolutions), and Martin Renkis (former founder and CEO of Trainersoft - now IBM).