Connected Cars

An association of transit and transportation agencies has officially formed the Automated Bus Consortium, a collaboration designed to investigate the feasibility of implementing pilots of automated bus projects across the United States. Created by infrastructure team AECOM, the consortium is …

Certain functions of smart farming will not work on low-power wide-area (LPWA) networks, even while technologies like LoRaWAN and NB-IoT tend to support most smart agricultural technologies, as they exist today. LTE and even 5G networks are required to provide …

Automotive testing came into focus this week, with a number of companies involved in demonstrations and development related to testing of various types of vehicle-related technologies. The 5G Automotive Association conducted cellular vehicle-to-everything testing in Berlin, with participation from BMW …

The 5G Automotive Association (5GAA) carried out a live demo of cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) technology in Berlin, the entity said in a release. During the demo, 5GAA members including BMW Group, Daimler, Deutsche Telekom, Fraunhofer Institutes FOKUS and ESK, Ford, …

People don’t get how sophisticated farmers are, says Lane Arthur, director of digital solutions at John Deere, the US maker of industrial equipment and machinery. “They don’t see the technology they are using,” he says. In January, John Deere showed …

German logistics company DHL has launched its first drone delivery solution for last-mile deliveries in urban areas of China, starting with flights in Guangzhou, the port city northwest of Hong Kong on the Pearl River. DHL Express has signed a …

Audi will be introducing a vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) service dubbed “Traffic Light Information” in the European market in July, the German carmaker said in a release. Initially, Audi will network new models with the traffic lights in Ingolstadt, Germany, while further …

Japanese firms Panasonic and Toyota have agreed to form a new smart cities joint-venture that combines the former’s expertise in the home gadgetry market and the latter’s work in the mobility space. The two companies will integrate their respective housing …

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 …

Finnish vendor Nokia will build a private 5G test network for Chinese auto-maker FAW to spur digital transformation of its industrial machines and processes. The pair have signed a “strategic” memorandum-of-understanding to carry out joint research into “smart connected cars, …

  US Ignite has launched a new smart city startup accelerator program, designed to guide developers through the process of launching a cloud-based business or service oriented to the smart city segment. Through financial support from Amazon Web Services (AWS), …

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 …

Intel signed a strategic cooperation deal with Chinese automobile manufacturer Great Wall Motor Company Limited (GWM) to boost the development of automobile intelligence, both firms said in a release. The strategic agreement was signed during the Auto Shanghai 2019 event. …

A new study places Singapore, London, and San Francisco as the leading cities for smart mobility, rated on over 150 different parameters, covering autonomous vehicles, intelligent transport, and smart logistics. The study rated 100 cities against six mobility criteria, in …

The city of Reno, in Nevada, is using blockchain technology to validate data communications between autonomous vehicles and street infrastructure. The University of Nevada and Reno’s Center for Applied Research (NCAR) have teamed up with local blockchain company Filament on …

Europe moved a step closer to rejecting 5G for autonomous vehicles in favour of wi-fi based communications last week, after the European Parliament voted in favour of the latter technology as proven, and “easy to implement and cheap”. Around 60 …

U.K. telco O2 confirmed it will provide 5G connectivity for the testing and development of connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV) technology at Millbrook Proving Ground in Bedfordshire. O2 will enable 5G connectivity to Millbrook testing facilities from June 2019, using …

Note, this article is continued from a previous post, entitled “Orange on LPWA: ‘If there’s no improvement in the radio, we’ll keep the same system’.” Click here to go to the previous article. The storm of digital change that 5G …

A “no-deal” Brexit would put at risk future investments in the connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) in the UK, according to a new report published by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders and analyst firm Frost & Sullivan. The …

German carmaker Volkswagen said it is currently testing Level 4 automated vehicles in urban traffic in the city of Hamburg. The company said that a fleet of five e-Golf vehicles, equipped with laser scanners, cameras, ultrasonic sensors and radars, will …

Logistics company UPS has completed the first commercial drone-based deliveries of medical samples to a private hospital and campus in Raleigh, in North Carolina. The flights have been green-lighted by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and North Carolina Department …

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 …

Among telecoms operators grappling with the concept of private industrial networks, and ways to coexist with enterprises seeking control of their own LTE and 5G infrastructure, Telefónica cuts an assured figure. It has been developing its strategy around private networks …

  The company also announced a deal to deploy self-driving vehicles in a private development in California   Self-driving vehicle company Optimus Ride announced plans to deploy its self-driving systems at two sites in the United States. The first site …

5G networks will only achieve the required reliability and latency for autonomous driving if sufficient edge compute functions are brought close to the roadside and architected correctly. Vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications, between vehicles and with road infrastructure and services, will not …