Cities must use all new mobility options, starting with shared and electric vehicles, if they are to decrease vehicle emissions by as much as 95 per cent by 2050. Focus on autonomous vehicles should come after immediate groundwork has been laid with shared high...
The U.S. Transportation Research Centre (TRC) has inaugurated its new SmartCentre for testing automated and connected vehicles in Logan County, Ohio.
The SMARTCenter is designed to test advanced automotive and mobility technologies in a safe, secure, and repeatable real-world environment before the vehicles are deployed...
Sea ports have become a primary focus for the telecoms sector as it maps out potential customers for private communications networks, particularly as the industrial space at large hits upon the opportunity for new LTE and 5G networks to bring digital advancement.
But networking...
Carmakers BMW, Hyundai, Nissan, Mitsubishi and Renault have joined with the likes of Deutsche Bahn, LG Electronics and Shell to pump $100 million into a new early-stage fund for innovation in the mobility sector.
Israel-based venture capital fund Maniv Mobility has secured $100 million with...
5G technology is back in the driving seat as the connectivity platform for connected and autonomous vehicles in Europe, after European Union member states rejected a European Commission vote to choose a Wi-Fi based system for vehicle communications.
A widening cross-industry group – combining prominent...
5G technology is back in the driving seat as the connectivity platform for connected and autonomous vehicles in Europe, after European Union member states rejected a European Commission vote to choose a Wi-Fi based system for vehicle communications.
A widening cross-industry group – combining prominent...
UK operator Telefónica O2 has joined with the UK Space Agency on a new four-year public-private sector partnership to test 5G and satellite communications for autonomous vehicles.
Project Darwin, announced by the UK government, is co-funded via the UK Space Agency’s investment in the European...
Mobile connectivity can be used to construct airspace geo-fences as virtual barriers to prevent drones from entering no-fly zones such as airports, or indeed leaving their designated fly zones.
This is the conclusion from a new Vodafone trial, which has looked into how mobile...
VALENCIA--Chinese vendor ZTE and Spanish carrier Orange have carried out a number of demonstrations of the potential of 5G technologies in the fields of automation, robotics and entertainment.
The demos were unveiled at the Global 5G event, taking place this week in Valencia, Spain.
The first...
Volvo Trucks announced that its electric, connected and autonomous
vehicle Vera will form part of an integrated solution to transport goods from a
logistics centre to a port terminal in Gothenburg, Sweden.
The new project is a result of a new collaboration between Volvo Trucks and the...
Chinese vendor Huawei is reportedly developing
self-driving cars in partnership with a number of automobile manufacturers, the
Financial Times reported.
According to the report, the Chinese tech giant is providing artificial intelligence (AI) software to Volkswagen’s Audi and a joint venture between Japan’s Toyota and China’s GAC Group.
Two other Chinese...
Uber is working with AT&T to develop always-on connectivity using 4G and 5G networks for passenger and cargo drones, with the groundwork informing AT&T's work in the industrial IoT space too.
The pair have announced a “mulit-phase” partnership that will focus in its first year...
An association of transit and transportation agencies has officially formed the Automated Bus Consortium, a collaboration designed to investigate the feasibility of implementing pilots of automated bus projects across the United States.
Created by infrastructure team AECOM, the consortium is an initial approach to...
Certain functions of smart farming will not work on low-power wide-area (LPWA) networks, even while technologies like LoRaWAN and NB-IoT tend to support most smart agricultural technologies, as they exist today.
LTE and even 5G networks are required to provide total coverage of fields, in...
Automotive testing came into focus this week, with a number of companies involved in demonstrations and development related to testing of various types of vehicle-related technologies.
The 5G Automotive Association conducted cellular vehicle-to-everything testing in Berlin, with participation from BMW Group, Daimler, Deutsche Telekom, Fraunhofer...
The 5G Automotive Association (5GAA) carried out a live demo of cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) technology in Berlin, the entity said in a release.
During the demo, 5GAA members including BMW Group, Daimler, Deutsche Telekom, Fraunhofer Institutes FOKUS and ESK, Ford, Huawei, Jaguar Land Rover, Nokia,...
People don’t get how sophisticated farmers are, says Lane Arthur, director of digital solutions at John Deere, the US maker of industrial equipment and machinery. “They don't see the technology they are using,” he says.
In January, John Deere showed its new S-770 combine (pictured),...
German logistics company DHL has launched its first drone delivery solution for last-mile deliveries in urban areas of China, starting with flights in Guangzhou, the port city northwest of Hong Kong on the Pearl River.
DHL Express has signed a partnership with Cinese drone company...
Audi will be introducing a vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) service dubbed “Traffic Light Information” in the European market in July, the German carmaker said in a release.
Initially, Audi will network new
models with the traffic lights in Ingolstadt, Germany, while further European
cities will follow from 2020...
Japanese firms Panasonic and Toyota have agreed to form a new smart cities joint-venture that combines the former’s expertise in the home gadgetry market and the latter’s work in the mobility space.
The two companies will integrate their respective housing businesses, as part of the...
5GAA event focused on multi-vendor environments for C-V2X
Test company Dekra, which has made automotive and automotive-mobility testing an area of focus, recently hosted a cellular-vehicle-to-everything interoperability testing event for the 5G Automotive Association at its test track facility in Klettwitz, Germany at Lausitzring. Dekra...
Finnish vendor Nokia will build a private 5G test network for Chinese auto-maker FAW to spur digital transformation of its industrial machines and processes.
The pair have signed a “strategic” memorandum-of-understanding to carry out joint research into “smart connected cars, industrial IoT, smart manufacturing...
US Ignite has launched a new smart city startup accelerator program, designed to guide developers through the process of launching a cloud-based business or service oriented to the smart city segment.
Through financial support from Amazon Web Services (AWS), program participants will gain access to...
More from the cutting room floor, leftover from the early 2019 conference season, which should have made the cut in the first place.
Here, following initial discussion with Cameron Coursey, vice president of IoT product development at AT&T, about the drive by operators to...
