Connected car hack research extends reach I recently had an opportunity to speak with Martin Hunt, BT Global Services‘ automotive industry practice lead, at the CyberSecure Car 15 conference in Dresden, Germany. While ethical hacking is not normally a topic one associates …
Recently I had an opportunity to speak with InterDigital about oneTransport, which has emerged from Innovate UK’s integrated transport initiative and is the concept for an open market place to access transport data and transport analytics in order to develop intelligent …
Last week, Dresden was host to the CyberSecure Car 15 conference with experts from the automotive and security markets discussing the topic in detail. The two-day conference covered many interesting topics and some of the highlights are included in this …
Ericsson, today announced a new concept for automated network transport that will be demonstrated at the ITS World Congress this coming week. Th new concept portrays how data obtained from the mobile network could be utilized to optimize public transport …
Booz Allen may not be a name that immediately comes to mind when thinking about automotive cybersecurity, but it should as the company has a practice that looks specifically at security. A team of automotive and cybersecurity experts work with …
OpenSignal has released its State of LTE report tracking the changes over the last three months to not only global LTE deployments from a coverage perspective, but also speed performance. The Asia-Pacific region is clearly in the lead on all …
RCR Wireless News recently had the opportunity to discuss the transition from LTE to “5G” with Chris Cave, director of research and development for InterDigital. We discussed four topics: spectrum; ongoing LTE evolution; network infrastructure differences between LTE and 5G; and shared …
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 …
Keeping up with moving things in the IoT Rajant provides kinetic mesh networks enabling a network that moves. In today’s traditional mesh networks, the wireless infrastructure stays in a constant location and the devices using the network move. In Rajant’s …
The University of Surrey has officially opened its 5G Innovation Centre in partnership with Huawei and other industry players. In separate announcements, both organizations spoke of their commitment to the topic of “5G.” The Innovation Centre will house more than …
NXP today announced the launch of its RF chip family to advance long-range smart car keys. The chip family offers two-way RF link functionality to enable bidirectional communication between the key fob and the car at a distance of up to …
Recently I had an opportunity to meet with Martin Hunt, senior business development director of the automotive industry practice for BT Global Services, to better understand how BT is working in the connected car space. It’s important to clarify that BT …
Nokia Networks today announced its programmable “5G” multiservice architecture that is said has the capability to automatically and dynamically adapt both radio access and the core network in support of different services and traffic loads. This would allow operators to …
Could something that was agreed to in 1968 have an impact on the autonomous driving vision for the European Union? It could as there is a section pertaining to road traffic that is currently raising a stir. There’s been quite …
For all of the hope that “5G” will happen sooner rather than later, there is still a lot of groundwork to do. The move to 5G will not be about going faster or the next “killer app.” And it’s not just …
One of the hottest topics around the mobile industry is “5G.” When it will happen; how it will be monetized; who’s going to lead the charge geographically; which operators; which vendors; etc. How far away is 5G and is it appropriate …
BICS today announced the first end-to-end voice-over-LTE call between Asia and Europe. Working together with SK Telecom’s SK Telink – international carrier services division – located in South Korea and Proximus located in Belgium, this trial was conducted on a …
Security and the connected car seem to be linked on a daily basis in the news the last few weeks. The question regarding hacking of the connected car has gone from if to when. Now the question is what is …
Vodafone recently released its third annual M2M Barometer report, developed in conjunction with Circle Research to better understand how businesses are utilizing machine-to-machine and “Internet of Things” technology. In order to get at these answers, 650 business and IT executives around the …
We’ve all had it happen. We’re driving along a boring stretch of road and start to doze off, and then suddenly realize and shake ourselves awake; or maybe we don’t and something horrible happens. Guttersberg Automotive has developed a sensor within the steering …
Earlier this summer, a consortium of 16 automotive OEMs, suppliers and public partners launched the Ko-HAF or Kooperatives hochautomatisiertes Fahren; Cooperative for Highly Automated Driving in Germany. Supported by Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, the aim of the …
Jibe Mobile said it is working with Deutsche Telekom’s regional operating company Telekom Albania to offer rich IP communications services. The move builds on last month’s announcement of a deployment with SFR in France and two prior announcements last year …
As the industry looks toward 5G it’s important to not forget that there are still many years of LTE to come and voice over LTE is just emerging as a viable alternative to today’s mobile voice infrastructure. Recently I had an …
The “Internet of Things” is such a broad-reaching topic; it’s really what you make of it – cars, things, people, sensors, animals, tractors, highways, etc. With so much room to innovate and limited only by the imagination of the tech industry; how does one …
Over-the-top content is a fact of life for network operators and the friend or foe conversation continues. Telekom Austria Group has announced a new offer to ride the wave of traffic its OTT customers drive to its network. The traffic is …
