Connected Cars

Note, this is the second part of a wide-ranging interview with AT&T President of IoT Solutions Chris Penrose; for the first instalment go here. In all, AT&T has connected 48 …

The greatest challenge for Chris Penrose, president of IoT solutions at AT&T, is just to order and manage the multiplying opportunities afforded by the advancement of machine connectivity and intelligence. …

Driverless cars will be on UK roads within five years. So says two thirds (65 per cent) of senior industry leaders in the UK, working at the crossover of technology …

Car makerVolvo has selected Ericsson’s cloud platform to deliver fleet management, telematics, navigation, and infotainment services. The deal will expand to cover delivery of analytics and automation solutions with the …

The platooning trial included two trucks and was carried out in Quebec FPInnovations’ transportation division, PIT Group, along with Transport Canada, Auburn University and Minimax Express Transportation recently collaborated to …

Nokia is providing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), portable LTE networks, and artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics tools to the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) to help with disaster recovery. The drone …

Vodafone has completed the first live tests in Europe of a full cellular system for both short and long-range vehicular communications, as well as for monitoring and managing multiple unmanned …

As part of its industrial showcase at Electronica 2018 in Munich, in Germany, last week, semiconductor manufacturer STMicroelectronics brought artificial intelligence (AI) right to the factory floor. The Swiss-French firm …

Scandinavian operator Telia is to follow its early deployment of 5G in Helsinki, in Finland, by connecting the city of Oulu, in the north of the country, to 5G technologies …

In every new market, tech executives step into unknown territory. We’re watching the automotive IoT market with interest because it’s a wide-open business model. There’s a lot at stake in …

Bosch discusses automotive opportunity during Electronica 2018 In 2016, every newly registered vehicle globally had nine Bosch chips on board, on average, the German manufacturer told Electronica 2018 in Munich …

Semiconductor companies Analog Devices, Bosch and Infineon argued with automotive manufacturers Daimler and Audi this week at Electronica 2018 in Munich, in Germany, about who holds the keys, and who …

C-V2X would let vehicles communicate with, well, everything Companies investing in autonomous driving have logged thousands of hours and millions of miles on the road to test out sensor arrays, …

Vodafone, Ericsson, and BMW have warned the European Commission (EC) its current stance on vehicular communications, which precludes 5G technologies in favour of a single purpose Wi-Fi variant, will throw …

The City of Delft, in the Netherlands, has appointed Dell EMC and Nokia as the leading parties in a public-private partnership to introduce semi-autonomous barges on the city’s underused canals …

The automotive market is driving massive growth in the semiconductor industry, with the value and complexity of semiconductors in vehicles set to jump in the next years as higher-level automation, …

  Waymo said it will begin testing in Palo Alto, Mountain View, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills and Sunnyvale   California’s Department of Motor Vehicles has issued a permit to …

The planet’s appetite for energy is growing; demand for electricity shows no signs of slowing. German technology company Siemens told European Utility Week 2018 in Vienna the only way the …

  The two companies are working to develop both roadside units and onboard units supporting this technology   Chinese vendor ZTE is strengthening its strategic investments into the transportation and …

DISH Network has selected Ericsson as the first supplier for its narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) radio access and core network, including radio frequency design. Florida based SBA Communications said it is …

China leading the way on deploying C-V2X Cars that can talk to each other, smart infrastructure and even pedestrians, access cloud services for navigation and infotainment and tap cellular networks …

Siemens has unveiled a new drone-mounted multi-sensor system running artificial intelligence and machine learning for overhead power-line inspections. Combining a number of sensors and cameras, the new system enables power …

Nokia, DT and the Port of Hamburg prove out industrial 5G applications Back in January, Nokia and Deutsche Telekom started a project at the Port of Hamburg to test out …

  Test being carried out at some of the city’s intersections are part of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Signal Phasing and Timing challenge   The city of Austin announced …

“Cars are the ultimate mobile device,” said AT&T this week, as it announced another two million connected cars in Q3, as well as an expanded deal to supply connectivity to …