Connected Cars

  The new platform will allow cars from these three manufacturers to have access to a wide range of connected car services   Global automotive alliance Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi announced the production release of the Alliance Intelligent Cloud, a new platform that …

Global IoT spending is predicted to reach $745 billion this year, a 15 per cent increase over 2018 – and this double-digit acceleration is expected to continue. Growth can be attributed in part to the manufacturing behind core IoT technologies. …

Traditional industrial technology giants are transforming their businesses by buying, funding or partnering with connected and intelligent manufacturing technologies and data management companies. The trend is most notable in Europe, among companies like like Bosch Rexroth and Siemens. At the …

The UK government has set out a new working strategy to define its objectives and methodologies for future urban mobility. In tandem, it has launched a £90 million competition for four UK cities or regions to establish dedicated mobility zones …

  The Russian tech giant has already tested autonomous cars technology in Moscow, Las Vegas and Tel Aviv Russian technology company Yandex, which specializes in intelligent products and services powered by machine learning, and South Korean automotive component manufacturer Hyundai …

  AAA study found that Americans are receptive to the idea of automated vehicle technology in more limited applications   Three in four Americas remain afraid of fully self-driving cars, following a number of high-profile safety incidents involving automated vehicles …

Note, this article is continued from a previous post, entitled ‘1.8k suppliers, 31m parts, 10k vehicles – How BMW is making sense of its supply chain’. Click here to go to the previous article.  But BMW’s major drive, to date, …

BMW Group has a global roster of about 1,800 suppliers, scattered at 4,000 points across the globe. Together, they deliver 31 million parts to 30 BMW production sites, worldwide, every day. At the same time, almost 10,000 vehicles come off …

  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 …

  The trial, which used Spark’s pre-commercial 5G network, was carried in partnership with local company Ohmio Automation   New Zealand carrier Spark, in collaboration with compatriot firm Ohmio Auromation kicked off a test of a 5G-connected driverless car in …

New seed-stage private equity firm Ubiquity Ventures has made its first six investments in start-ups. Each of the companies selected for funding are in the industrial transformation or tech security games. Ubiquity Ventures, based in Palo Alto, is focused on …

  The car analyzed traffic information collected by camera and LiDAR sensors Korean carrier LG Uplus and Hanyang University are carrying out a 5G self-driving car trial in Seoul, Korean press reported. The telco and and the university’s Automotive Control …

Under the three-year agreement, Iteris will provide connected vehicle applications in Los Gatos, Emeryville, Walnut Creek, Concord and Dublin Iteris, a specialist in applied informatics for transportation and agriculture, announced that it has been selected by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission …

Vodafone has joined a UK drone-testing consortium as network provider to develop tools and processes to enable unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to fly safely in the same airspace as manned aircraft. Vodafone will provide 4G and 5G connectivity to the …

Vodafone will use a range of private networking options to serve industrial verticals, it has said, as it develops its advanced LTE and emerging 5G proposition for enterprises. These options include spot usage of unlicensed LTE, localised usage of public …

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 …

What is 5G anyway? Ericsson kicked off Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2019 by stating it is deploying 5G networks at pace, faster than anyone else. But these networks – alongside those of its peers, and all the slick handsets (some foldable) …

5G as the ‘nervous system’ for the industrial IoT BARCELONA–Qualcomm is a major force in not just the modems and other components that power smartphones but also in the processes that gives us standards like Wi-Fi, LTE and 5G NR. …

Vodafone and AT&T are pooling resources to accelerate adoption of mobile technologies in the automotive industry. The pair will collaborate, they said, on 5G and cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) technologies. The arrangement also covers innovations in connected vehicle systems and intelligent …

A cohort of MWC stalwarts led by Spanish operator Telefónica is preparing a 5G showcase for Barcelona next week that will make use of cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) and edge technologies, and seek to establish the Catalan capital as a “reference …

  The mapping services firm will provide funds of more than $28 million to establish the new facility   Mapping and location services company HERE Technologies is establishing a new artificial intelligence research center. The International Institute for Advanced Research …

The AutoAir consortium has demonstrated the first application of independently operated 5G for connected and autonomous vehicles in the UK. The showcase took place at the Millbrook proving ground in the UK, where the AutoAir consortium, lead by Florida-based Airspan …

WISPA vs. 5GAA Automotive manufacturers seem to prefer C-V2X rather than DSRC as the connectivity medium for vehicles in the push toward full-on autonomous driving. But the 5.9 GHz band is not without its defenders, particularly fixed wireless broadband providers …

  U.K. authorities also announced a strengthening of its code of practice to trial automated vehicles   The U.K. government said it is developing a process to support advanced trials of automated vehicles in the country — and that such …

Note, this is the second part in a feature about Nokia’snew industrial strategy. The first instalment can be found here.  Nokia’s latest results, which saw shares slip on a slow forecast for 2019 5G sales, present the company’s strategic re-organisation …