Motorola Solutions Venture Capital, the corporate venturing fund representing communications equipment provider Motorola Solutions, invested $6.5m in US-based wireless surveillance company MicroPower Technologies on Monday.

The $6.5m tranche made up the first round of funding received by MicroPower, and will be invested in marketing the company’s surveillance devices in both new and existing markets.

MicroPower is the developer of a range of wireless, solar powered video surveillance equipment that uses relatively little power while retaining reliability and image quality.…