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...
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...
The new rules were criticized by the GSMA, which urged Europe to adopt the C-V2X technology instead of Wi-Fi-based DSRC technology
The European Commission (EC) has implemented new rules stepping up the deployment of Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS) on Europe's roads and supporting Dedicated...
LTE-based cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) technology will launch in earnest in the next months, as new automotive chipsets and platforms are released. The first vehicles to feature 5G-based C-V2X, enabling autonomous control of critical driving functions, will come off the production line in 2022, said...
Ford's move could shift the conversation around the 5.9 GHz spectrum allocation
Ford Motor Company has confirmed that it will use cellular vehicle-to-everything technology in all new U.S. models by 2022, in a break with automakers who favor the use of Dedicated Short-Range Communications.
In a...
Car companies Audi, Ducati, and Ford have joined with California chip maker Qualcomm to prove the “maturity and potential” of cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) technology by showing their vehicles navigating a crossroads by themselves.
The showcase at the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas...
AT&T has slipped out a minor announcement about LTE connectivity on latest-model Toyota and Lexus cars and trucks in the US, starting from the fall, just as the technology and automotive markets appeared in a newly climactic embrace ahead of the 2019 Consumer Electronics...
Test and measurement firm Rohde & Schwarz has validated a new dual-mode DSRC and C-V2X chipset from Autotalks, as the Israeli chip-maker also claims expansion into China.
The lack of regulation around safety-critical vehicle-to-everything connectivity in the automotive sector has seen both dedicated short-range communications (DSRC) and...
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, Lidar, radar, cameras, etc...But these elaborate systems still face limitations, particularly when it comes to...
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 region way off track in terms of digital infrastructure and economic development.
In a...
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 to stream data is the vision of cellar vehicle-to-everything or C-V2X. Qualcomm has been preaching...
“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 heavy-duty Daimler trucks outside of North America, and restated its plans for 5G cellular...
Qualcomm, telcos and automakers testing C-V2X
With U.S. regulators questioning the value of setting aside the 5.9 GHz band for direct short range communications, a long-gestating but not widely adopted vehicle-to-vehicle communication system, will cellular-based connectivity take its place? Based on global trial activity, coupled...
The two companies included a 5G testbed at Dekra’s Lausitzring speedway
Deutsche Telekom and German firm Dekra announced they are expanding the facilities at a test and race track in Lausitzring speedway, in Germany, to include a 5G testbed for smart mobility.
Under the agreement between...
The demo of C-V2X direct communication technology utilized vehicles from multiple auto manufacturers
The 5G Automotive Association (5GAA), together with the BMW Group, Ford Motor Company, Groupe PSA and Qualcomm Technologies, have carried out what 5GAA claims to be Europe’s first live demonstration of cellular...
The demo, carried out during MWC Shanghai, used vehicles provided by Chinese manufacturer SAIC
China Mobile, together with Huawei and Chinese state-owned automotive manufacturing company SAIC, have jointly demonstrated the application of intelligent and connected vehicles using a low-latency network enabled by "5G Era LTE"...
Munich-based test equipment supplier Rohde & Schwarz has updated its CMW500 radio tester and SMBV100A GNSS simulator to support cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) device certification. It is the first test equipment vendor to offer a “comprehensive” C-V2X test suite for the car industry, it said.
3GPP...
C-V2X links vehicles to pedestrians, infrastructure, the network and other vehicles
As trials pick up and automakers partner with telecom ecosystem stakeholders to advance vehicle connectivity on the way to autonomous driving, let's take a look at the wireless connectivity linking vehicles to the world...
Qualcomm working with automakers on C-V2X interoperability while NXP deal waiting on Chinese regulators
Adoption of internet of things solutions is creating new efficiencies, streamlining operations and reducing costs for a variety of industrial and enterprise users executing on digital transformation strategies. In the automotive...
The 5G Automotive Association which was founded in 2016 also took part in the C-V2X demo
The 5G Automotive Association, Audi, Ford and Qualcomm Technologies have carried out what they claim to be the world’s first demonstration of cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) direct communications technology operating...
Vodafone Germany and Bosch partnered on C-V2X trial
Huawei, Vodafone Germany and Bosch have successfully tested the extended usage of cellular vehicle to everything (C-V2X) technology in combination with Bosch’s adaptive cruise control (ACC) driver assistance system.
The partners said they have been performing trials of...
Other firms participating in the trials are Japanese telco NTT Docomo, Nissan and Continental
Ericsson, Qualcomm, together with Japanese telco NTT Docomo and other firms including Nissan and Continental have unveiled plans to carry out their first cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) trials in Japan.
The objective of...
Ford to launch vehicle-as-a-service platform in 2018
Las Vegas, Nev. -- Ford CEO Jim Hackett highlighted opportunities within the transportation sector the company would like to seize upon during a keynote presentation Tuesday at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). While Ford’s address was short on...
The long view on autonomous driving is vehicles that can effectively see and communicate with the world around them--pedestrians, infrastructure, other vehicles, etc...While full-blown self-driving vehicles are still in their infancy, Qualcomm has announced a new chipset that lays the groundwork for supporting multi-faceted...
