It is a year late, but automotive giant Volkswagen has deployed a private 5G network at its main plant in Wolfsburg in Germany. Nokia has supplied the networking equipment for the project, which is being presented as a pilot, and utilizes the dedicated 3.7-3.8...
Mercedes-Benz (Daimler) has opened the doors of its new 5G-connected €730 million Factory 56 facility, part of a €2.1 billion “future-oriented” car plant and the administrative area in Sindelfingen, in Germany. The highly-digitised Factory 56 facility, networked by Telefónica Germany and Ericsson, is billed...
Siemens has acquired Swedish service and software company Vizendo, maker of augmented and virtual reality (AR and VR) training solutions for automotive manufacturing. The deal sees it deepen its Industry 4.0 contracts with the likes of BMW, Daimler, and Ford, which it already serves...
Finnish network vendor Nokia and Finnish private LTE provider Ukkoverkot have signed a four-year deal to bring connectivity, automation, and intelligence to the Port of Kokkola, also in Finland.
The Port of Kokkola is the third largest ‘general’ port in Finland. It is also...
Nokia is building private LTE and 5G coverage for the ARENA2036 automotive research factory in Stuttgart in collaboration with members of the German car and manufacturing industries, including Daimler, Bosch and TRUMPF.
Nokia will provide full private 4G/LTE and 5G New Radio coverage for the...
Eight further organisations have joined the Charter of Trust for cybersecurity, an initiative launched by Siemens last year to raise security in the internet of things (IoT) market. Membership of the charter now stands at 17. Siemens said the group’s first task is to...
Daimler also said it is reassessing its view on truck platooning
Daimler Trucks announced plans to invest EUR 500 million ($570 million) with the aim of bringing highly automated trucks (Society of Automotive Engineers level 4) to the road within a decade.
In commercial trucking, level...
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.
For Penrose, the key is that business is repeatable, and his resources within the business...
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 is taking the wheel, in the development of autonomous vehicles, and the disruption of...
“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...
The trial took place at the Mercedes-Benz Research and Development Center in Beijing
German companies Daimler and Bosch have announced the completion of a joint, automated valet parking pilot in China’s capital Beijing.
The technology, which had been initially tested in a parking garage at the...
Germany has made its move in the international AI arms race with state support for tech start-ups, a ‘JEDI’ innovation network with France, and backing for its ‘Cyber Valley’ set-up from industrial giants including BMW, Daimler, Porsche, and Bosch.
The German government is to create...
Bosch and Daimler will test a fleet of autonomous vehicles in California, with a view to launching a driverless shuttle service on certain routes in the second half of 2019. The pair have selected US tech company Nvidia to provide the artificial intelligence (AI)...
Daimler said it is currently working with customers to trial truck platooning in the country
Daimler Trucks has announced the inauguration of its automated truck research and development center in Portland, Oregon.
The center will be dedicated to further developing automated driving technology and understanding its...
For technologists, airports in general, and the planet?s busiest ones in particular, are like smart cities in microcosm. They encapsulate a head-spinning array of services and applications, covering everything from waste collection and traffic management to private retail and mission-critical controls.
Threading new airports with...
German car manufacturer Daimler AG carried out a demonstration of the application of automated snow removal operations at airports based on a specific customer requirement.
The demo was carried out on the site of the former Pferdsfeld airbase, in Germany.
"We are not just talking about...
The demo took place at the Mercedes-Benz Museum parking garage in Stuttgart
German companies Bosch and Daimler have carried out a demonstration of driverless parking at the Mercedes-Benz Museum parking garage in Stuttgart, Germany.
The two companies said that the pilot solution is the world’s first-ever...
IoT devices are increasingly used for DDoS attacks and a majority of these IoT security attacks originate in China and the U.S.
Internet of Things (IoT) devices are increasingly being used for carrying out IoT security attacks, in particular distributed denial of service (DDoS)...
Innovation is a key theme in telecom; so key, in fact, it runs the risk of becoming nothing more than a buzzword unless organizations have some substantial proof points behind the buzz. Thought leadership is important. These topics show that an organization is thinking about...
