Ericsson showcases autonomous cars concept equipped with data-driven infotainment
The vision for autonomous cars is a society with no traffic, no accidents or fatalities on the road, and maybe even no need to own a vehicle – perhaps your city will deploy a fleet and...
Eagerly anticipated in the communications ecosystem is The Telecom Council's annual Innovation Showcase. This year, on March 18 in the Juniper Aspiration Dome, 20 early-stage communication start-ups, selected by telco judges for their innovation, momentum, viability and management will meet with strategic fitting telcos, vendors, investors and potential...
Redknee is an IIoT technology enablement platform processing 3 billion to 4 billion transactions every hour
Redknee Solutions (TSX: RKN) CEO Lucas Skoczkowski provides RCR Wireless News with an overview of how Redknee enables industrial IoT solutions as well as an update on the progress the company...
Google calls it a learning experience; chalks collision with bus up to sandbags in the road
In pursuit of an autonomous driving future, Google has run its self-driving cars through extensive road testing. But, in a first of its kind accident, one of the Google...
CHICAGO, IL -- Today, NextGen Global Resources will announce that it's broadening its offerings to include capabilities for the Internet of Things (IoT) and Wireless Evolution. Since opening its doors in 2009, NextGen has done things a little differently from traditional staffing firms. Specializing in...
AT&T adds support with Vodafone to GM divisions in Europe; expands Audi, signs Porsche in NA
AT&T Mobility continues to bolster its worldwide connected car presence, announcing a handful of deals with European automakers at this week’s Mobile World Congress event.
The domestic telecom operator...
Carriers race against dedicated low-power networks
BARCELONA, Spain – Mobile World Congress is all about the newest wireless technologies, but this year the end of an old technology is driving conversations around the "Internet of Things." Second-generation networks are being decommissioned to make room for...
The two companies will initially offer telematics solutions
BARCELONA, Spain – Chinese ICT solutions provider ZTE signed a strategic agreement with Swedish telecom operator TeliaSonera to jointly target the "Internet of Things" market.
Under terms of the agreement, ZTE and TeliaSonera will collaborate in the IoT...
After some missteps, NB-IoT is poised to revolutionize low-power, wide-area networks
BARCELONA, Spain – Narrow-band "Internet of Things" networks, which are slated for standardization by 3GPP this year, could be commercially deployed in support of machine communications as early as 2017.
That was the message communicated...
NB-IoT Forum members look to revolutionize underserved LPWA market
BARCELONA, Spain – With billions of previously unconnected objects being added to cellular networks as the "Internet of Things" takes shape, what’s the right low-power, wide-area solution?
The NB-IoT Forum thinks narrow-band IoT technology, which set for...
Ahead of Mobile World Congress, industry convenes to look to the 5G future
BARCELONA, Spain – The data explosion driven by video-hungry consumers and the burgeoning "Internet of Things" brings into focus the need for advancements to LTE networks in the run up to "5G"...
The U.S. Department of Transportation, looking ahead to smart city projects of the future, plans to award $160 million to improve traffic congestion, make cities safer, deal with climate change, improve access to city services and more.
The Smart City Challenge, part of the investment...
Volvo and Ericsson are teaming up to add experiential in-car technology designed to provide the infotainment passengers want in a future of autonomous vehicles.
At the Consumer Electronics Show last month, the two companies announced an joint research and development initiative around intelligent, high-bandwidth in-vehicle...
Low-power, wide-area IoT network also being deployed in 10 U.S. cities
Adding to its European dedicated "Internet of Things" network, provider Sigfox plans to expand its low-power, wide-area network into Germany, which has undertaken a national IoT initiative with Industrie 4.0.
The Sigfox network is active...
Huawei also launched IoT, video and safe cities solutions
Chinese ICT provider Huawei announced five "big initiatives" for the telecom industry designed to accelerate digital transformation.
The five initiatives include what it's terming big video, big IT, big operation, big architecture and big pipe, described...
Verizon chip partner first to announce lower cost Cat-M solution for IoT
LTE is typically marketed as a high-speed, high-bandwidth technology, but not everyone sees it that way. French chipmaker Sequans has spent the last several years focused on slower, low-power LTE chipsets with the...
Top industrial Internet of Things vendors are Cisco, GE, IBM, Intel, RTI, Rockwell Automation
The Asian-Pacific region will lead market growth related to the industrial "Internet of Things," which is expected to be worth $54 billion in that market by 2020, according to a new...
RCR Wireless News recognizes inaugural list of leaders fueling the Fourth Industrial Revolution
RCR Wireless News, a leading source of wireless, telecom and mobile technology news and actionable intelligence since 1982, recognized today its inaugural selection of leading Industrial IoT (IIoT) 5G Industrialists and Innovators....
James Clapper said smart devices associated with Internet of Things pose security risk
In testimony to the Senate this week, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper highlighted the security risks posed by the emerging Internet of Things (IoT).
Clapper spoke on Tuesday to the Senate Armed...
Silver Spring Networks will deploy IoT platform in New York
New York's Consolidated Edison plans to connect more than 4 million electricity and gas customers to a smart grid deployed by Silver Spring Networks. The program is meant to support the state of New York...
Netherlands-based Gemalto, a major SIM card manufacturer and digital security firm, this week received certification of its Cinterio Cat 1 LTE M2M module from Verizon, which deems the Internet of Things optimized module carrier grade.
Category 1, a standardized designation defining downlink threshold of up...
Embedded sensors, big data analytics make smart cities run
More and more cities across the world are implementing smart city projects in order to modernize the interaction between citizens, governments and the physical world. Some smart city projects are limited to a specific government sector...
LinkNYC, an ambitious project to convert old New York City phone booths in public Wi-Fi access points, is still in the beta phase, but project backer Qualcomm is looking forward to the impact smart cities technology will have in an era marked by massive...
About 90% of mobile service providers globally have already moved to 4G LTE, to support the exploding mobile data demands of today. But each month, consumer mobile broadband traffic continues to grow unbounded and the Internet of Things (IoT) means there will be more...
