Telensa, a Plextek company, focuses on "Internet of Things" connected via ultra narrowband technology. Eighteen years ago, this technology was developed to track stolen vehicles and used by companies such as LoJack in the United States and Tracker in the United Kingdom. UNB is a long-range,...
Blog: “Not once was the self-driving car the cause of the accident”
After six years and 1.7 million miles covered, Google’s director of the self-driving car program has learned a number of valuable lessons about human error as it relates to traffic incidents.
Chris Urmson detailed...
Uber's plan to develop self-driving cars may include Nokia's Here mapping unit. The New York Times is reporting that Uber will bid up to $3 billion for the unit in an effort to outbid a consortium of automakers that includes BMW, Audi and Mercedes-Benz....
Accel specializes in enterprise connectivity; Sierra focused on IoT/M2M
Sierra Wireless this week announced a “definitive agreement” to acquire Accel Networks, a move that will broaden Sierra’s enterprise "Internet of Things" and machine to machine connectivity portfolio.
The transaction is expected to close in June, according to the companies.
Accel provides...
Audi Electronics Ventures and Cubic Telecom have announced a strategic partnership inclusive of a $20.3 million investment. Yet another example of telecommunications and the automotive industry joining hands to further the vision of the connected car.
Let’s start by taking a look at who these...
The mobile industry is betting big on the Internet of Things. Mobile network operators are looking to IoT to fuel their subscriber and revenue growth for many years to come. But since there aren’t many “people” out there who aren’t already connected, the next...
Site acquisition, jurisdictional approval, backhaul access key small cell challenges.
Chris Stark, Nokia’s chief business development officer for North America, envisions a future of smart mega cities where traffic, resource use, emergency response latency and more are problems of the past.
Stark, during a keynote address...
Sprint announced in late April its Command Center 2.0 for machine-to-machine solutions. The original Command Center has been around for four years, but the new offering is what is driving industry attention to Sprint in the M2M space – providing connected device support and a global...
Carrier plans an 8-city IoT education tour
WASHINGTON – Verizon Enterprise Solutions announced it will expand its foray into smart city and smart agriculture technology as part of the vaunted "Internet of Things" revolution.
The carrier’s push into IoT makes business sense as many analysts predicted connected...
Last week London was host to M2M World Congress. The presenters were an interesting mix of network operators, hardware and software vendors and industry analysts approaching this space from many different angles. There was smart home, smart city, connected car and retail applications in the...
This week on Coders I speak with Brian Mueller, the developer behind the Carrot line of apps for iPhone and Apple Watch. His line of apps are named Carrot from "carrot and stick," and the humorous content in the fitness, to-do and weather apps...
DARPA researchers plan to demo vulnerability of connected car at conferences
WASHINGTON – Cybersecurity researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek, funded by the federal government, announced they will publicly hack a connected car or truck.
The duo received a 2013 grant from the Defense Advance Projects...
This episode of Coders dives into hardware as well as software by taking a look at the open-source hardware platform known as Arduino.
RCR Wireless contributor and Executive Producer for Superpixel Studios, Victor Agreda, Jr. is joined by Chris Martin, Executive Producer at RCRtv.
Arduino began...
Earlier this year Accenture released its "Digital Consumer Survey" taking a look at how consumer views are changing in this new connected world. Focusing on how the "Internet of Things" will impact these views, 24,000 consumers in 24 countries were surveyed in order to...
Paving the way for 5G, LTE Advanced is the next advancement in the long-term evolution of cellular technology. With a rapidly maturing device ecosystem, LTE Advanced is driving many operators to invest heavily.
A new report by the Global mobile Suppliers Association found that...
Huawei ranks connected and developing nations in new report
The United States is the most connected country in the world, according to Huawei’s Global Connectivity Index, which considers investment in networks, computing and storage, as well as e-commerce and other economic variables.
Huawei, a global information and...
Creating your own IoT solutions – from connection, to management and integration – has become plug-and-play easy. At the core, delivering this simplification sits an enterprise-grade, do-it-yourself Application Enablement Platform that addresses all the necessary complex ‘plumbing’ – reducing cost, time and risk. This...
More connected devices equates to more cybersecurity exposure, more risk
WASHINGTON – Booz Allen Hamilton, one of the nation's largest management consulting firms that is well known for its broad range of experience on cybersecurity, has predicted that a new and more comprehensive approach will...
Booz Allen Hamilton recently published its views on the increasing battle for the dashboard in the connected car. I had the opportunity to learn more about the company and its work in this space. As more and more industry players traditionally known for expertise in IT and...
There’s no denying the fact that the connected car is one of the hottest topics in the telecommunications and automotive industries. Although within the connected car topic there are a great many sub-topics that still require discussion in order to reach an appropriate outcome. For...
At the simplest level, "Internet of Things," connected car, M2M and telematics have all been buzzwords synonymous with the integration of telecommunications and automotive. Now "mobility" is entering the mix. Many years ago – let’s not mention how many – mobility was a term...
In the next five years we will see many new developments in services for the connected car. But what about the connected car as-a-service?
While discussing the issue with different companies in this area, which types of services would be most prevalent and would there...
The cloud, the cloud, the cloud – some of the most popular buzzwords in telecommunications, IT and now the connected car. It’s a fact that the connected car will rely heavily on the cloud to store data collected within the vehicle, data shared among vehicles and...
I hear quite often that telecommunications players are only just entering the connected car market and don’t have a great deal of value to add other than connectivity. Whether enabling telematics, machine-to-machine or connectivity within the vehicle, it isn’t a new topic for these organizations....
