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AT&T talks IoT strategy and focus areas

The new AT&T Connected Solutions group incorporates connected vehicles into larger IoT business Over the years CES has gradually brought in more and more automotive technology and this year was no exception. Given AT&T’s long-standing leadership in connecting vehicles, RCR Wireless News caught up with...

China Telecom, stc sign IoT agreement to target connected cars

Agreement between China Telecom and stc will revolve around the strategic development of IoT industries Chinese telecom operator China Telecom has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Saudi Arabian telco stc to focus on opportunities in the Internet of Things (IoT). The primary aim of...

NI expands it automotive focus with new Novi testing facility

NI has been sharpening its automotive testing capabilities in the past few years, racking up acquisitions like the electric vehicle division of Germany-based Heinzinger Electronic and the EV test systems business of Kratzer Automation AG, both in 2022, and projects like its launch of...

Keeping safety first on the road to autonomous driving

Qualcomm is leveraging automotive connectivity for assisted and autonomous driving, digital cockpit, and more As Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon said during CES, the company is “all in on auto.” With its Snapdragon Digital Chassis, a platform designed to facilitate the transition to software-defined vehicles via...

Verizon Connect launches its AI Dashcam in EMEA, APAC markets

Verizon Connect had initially unveiled its advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) Dashcam in August 2022 Verizon Connect said that its new artificial intelligence (AI) Dashcam solution is now available in selected countries in the EMEA and APAC regions. The new Verizon Connect Dashcam uses advanced AI for...

Industry 4.0 warriors (and worriers) – auto, pharma, logistics top McKinsey robotics poll

A new survey by global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company says robotics and automation systems will account for 25 percent of capital spending by industrial companies over the next five years, mostly for routine manual tasks in the logistics and fulfillment, retail and...

Connected cars to exceed 367m globally by 2027: Juniper

Juniper noted that the growth of 91% will be driven by the advancement of both ADAS and increasing the capabilities of in-vehicle infotainment systems   The number of connected vehicles in service is forecast to reach 367 million globally in 2027, up from 192 million in...

Verizon deploys private 5G for Deloitte Industry 4.0 showcase at Wichita State

Verizon has deployed a private 5G network at the 5,500 square-metre ‘smart factory’ at Wichita State University in Kansas, in the US. The showcase facility, dubbed Smart Factory @ Wichita, is on the university’s science research campus. It is sponsored and “convened” by the...

Qualcomm CEO: ‘We are all in on auto’ 

At CES Qualcomm unveils concept car, announces new SoC for ADAS and digital cockpit, partners with Salesforce on automotive cloud LAS VEGAS—Qualcomm executives have for some time been discussing the chipmaker’s diversification strategy, which essentially leverages technologies developed for mobile communications and applies that expertise...

Baidu expands driverless robotaxi services in Wuhan

Baidu also said it plans to put an additional 200 fully driverless robotaxis into operation across China during 2023 Chinese internet company Baidu announced an expansion of its commercial fully driverless robotaxi service in the city of Wuhan, in Hubei province, Chinese press reported. According to...

Volvo Cars takes total ownership of autonomous driving software firm Zenseact

Swedish car manufacturer Volvo Cars has taken full ownership of its autonomous driving software division Zenseact. It said it acquired the remaining 13.5 percent of shares in Zenseact from automotive software and hardware company ECARX, co-founded in 2017 by Eric Li, as the company's...

Another 5G first – ‘first hybrid private 5G in Europe’, claim Vodafone and Porsche

Another private 5G story, and another which claims primacy and (apparently) unmatched scale. Vodafone Business, the enterprise division of UK operator Vodafone, has said it has built “Europe’s first hybrid private 5G network”, on a site covering 700 hectares. The hybrid definition, here, means...

“Customer and vendor, home and abroad” – China’s JDL explains global private 5G vision

The smart logistics operation at China-based retail giant JD.com “makes Amazon look primitive”, reckons regional English-language title The Asia Times. Certainly, its warehousing and fulfilment business, JD Logistics (JDL), caught the attention of the industrial tech media this summer when it revealed a fleet...

Nokia gets private 5G ticket on Paris Express – four lines, 68 stations, 200km of track

The Société du Grand Paris (SGP), the state owned industrial company responsible for the Grand Paris Express metro project, has appointed Nokia to deploy a private 5G macro network across four new lines and 68 new stations in the French capital, covering 200 kilometres...

Ericsson quits IoT – agrees sale of loss-making IoT Accelerator business to Aeris

Ericsson has agreed to sell its IoT business, including its IoT Accelerator connectivity management platform and Connected Vehicle Cloud platform, to California-based IoT provider Aeris. The Swedish firm said its IoT business, expected to post net sales of SEK 0.8 billion ($76.85 million) in...

Big game hunting with private 5G – more takeaways from Private Networks Forum

A panel session at Private Networks European Forum last month put the spotlight on the discipline of network and system management, specifically, where traditional mobile operators are increasingly facing-off with rival factions in the developing Industry 4.0 supplier market. These other groups include system...

Terminal operator STI appoints Nokia to deploy private LTE at Chile’s biggest port

Nokia is to deploy a private LTE network at the Port of San Antonio in Chile, the country’s main maritime port, handling almost 50 percent of the country’s import and export trade. The Finnish vendor was selected by the port operator, San Antonio Terminal...

DT tests automated driving with 5G SA network slicing and QoS

Qualcomm, BMW Group, Valeo and Ericsson also took part in the 5G SA automated driving tests    Deutsche Telekom, BMW Group, Valeo, Ericsson and Qualcomm Technologies announced what they claim is the world's first demonstration of automated driving application supported by 5G Standalone (SA) network slicing...

A message to enterprises about private 5G* in manufacturing – just do it

Note, this article is taken from the intro/outro sessions at 5G Manufacturing Forum, hosted by Enterprise IoT Insights and RCR Wireless. It is a summary, a ramble, and a call-to-arms – which attempts only to say that industrial 5G is a developing standard, which...

Qualcomm and Renault boost collaboration to target SDV platforms

The new automotive platforms would be based on Snapdragon digital chassis solutions from Qualcomm Technologies   Renault Group and Qualcomm Technologies announced that the companies intend to further expand their technology collaboration, aiming to deliver a centralized compute architecture for Renault’s next-generation of software-defined vehicles. Known as...

Fujitsu tests private 5G for equipment inspection, remote recovery at data centres

Japanese IT firm Fujitsu is to start testing private 5G for equipment inspection at its major data centre in Yokohama, in the Kanagawa prefecture, as a springboard to drive “operational resilience and process automation” in the broader data centre market. The Fujitsu project, to...

Autonomous vehicles — The killer app to drive 5G? (Reader Forum)

So far, mobile network operators like AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile have invested hundreds of billions of dollars in 5G airwave spectrum and equipment. The number of worldwide 5G connections soared past 540 million last year, according to industry research group Omdia. Yet we’re lacking...

Qualcomm: Software-defined vehicles will let automakers reclaim differentiation

As automotive architectures evolve to support electrification, Qualcomm focused on automated driving, digital cockpit and vehicle connectivity Vehicles are evolving very quickly and along multiple vectors—complex systems of cameras, LIDAR, radar and other sensors are being employed for assisted and autonomous driving; digital cockpits are...

Private networks in numbers – surge or stasis? (Down a rabbit hole with a calculator)

We need to talk about private networks (some more). Because earlier this month, Enterprise IoT Insights opened the European edition of Private Networks Forum with a salutary address about the market, going so far as to suggest business is “flying” in most major industrial...