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New “deep-tech” VC fund goes all-in for digital change, security and… cowgorithms

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 “pushing software beyond the screen”,...

LG Uplus completes 5G self-driving car trial in Seoul

  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 and Electronic Lab (ACE Lab) showcased an...

San Francisco selects Iteris for intelligent transportation system upgrade

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 (MTC) to enhance and upgrade...

Vodafone joins consortium to test 4G and 5G drones, ready UK skies for robot deliveries

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 National Beyond Visual Line of...

Private networks, guaranteed service, total control – “We are proving 5G for Industry 4.0,” says Vodafone

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, and dedicated slices...

LTE-V2X is ready to roll, says Ford, as Qualcomm releases chips, Vodafone runs tests, and market preps for 5G NR in 2022

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 line in 2022, said...

The raw and the cooked – Impressions of MWC 2019, and the state of ‘things’

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) on the stands – just...

Qualcomm honing vertical focus on automotive, robotics and industrial IoT

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. Given that pedigree, coupled with...

AT&T and Vodafone pool resources on 5G and C-V2X for automotive sector

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 transportation system (ITS) for...

Telefonica, Ericsson, Qualcomm prep 5G C-V2X showcase for MWC crowds

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 5G hub” in Europe....

HERE establishes AI research center in Austria

  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 in Artificial Intelligence (IARAI), to be located in...

UK starts testing private 5G for autonomous vehicles at Millbrook proving ground

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 Networks and backed by £4.1...

WISPA puts up speed bump to dedicating 5.9 GHz for C-V2X

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 who use the mid-band frequency. In...

UK government to support advanced automated vehicle trials

  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 trials will not be supported unless they have...

From 50ms to 1ms and 5x9s to 6x9s – Nokia makes case for private industrial networks

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 around three so-called ‘pillars’ –...

Sensing and sense-making: Seven key supply chain technologies

I read it somewhere, and it made sense; the application of new digital technologies in the global supply chain is about two critical functions – ‘sensing’ and ‘sense-making’, where the first is about connecting and managing assets in transit, and the second is about...

Nokia trial sees Komatsu autonomous mining trucks approved to run on private LTE

Driverless trucks by equipment manufacturer Komatsu are the first in the mining industry to be passed to run on a private LTE network in commercial operations. Komatsu’s ‘autonomous haulage system’ (AHS), which governs unmanned operation of its ultra-class FrontRunner mining trucks, passed qualification after a...

Cisco, Iteris form partnership to target smart city solutions

  The two companies initially deployed an IoT-based solution for the city of Las Vegas   Iteris, a U.S company that focuses on applied informatics for transportation and agriculture, has signed a strategic partnership with Cisco with the aim of promoting the latter’s Connected Roadway solution through...

ICYMI: Telecom tidbits from CES

The Consumer Electronics Show is ... well, both consumer and electronics-focused, and this year's CES highlighted everything gaming to smart glasses for augmented/virtual reality to new advances in the connected car. Some telecom-related news tends to get lost in the wave of shiny new gadgets,...

Magenta Venture Partners launches $100m VC fund for industrial AI startups

Israel’s venture capital firm Magenta Venture Partners has announced a new $100 million fund for early-stage Israeli startups focused variously on autonomous vehicles, Industry 4.0, smart cities, and fin-tech, and on artificial intelligence and enterprise software. The new fund had its initial closing in October...

Three use cases only workable with URLLC-flavoured 5G

Further to last week’s sub-polemic on the wrongheaded marketing of 5G services, it is worth considering, again, just how transformational the next generation of mobile technology could be – and why the hype is building so feverishly in the first place. Of course, the only...

Why 5G is a slow-burning enterprise saga – and Verizon’s criticism of 5G marketing doesn’t go far enough

“The potential for 5G is awesome,” Verizon chief tech officer Kyle Malady wrote in an open letter this week, in protest at the early marketing of rather middle-of-the-road ‘5G’ services being pushed by the telecoms industry at large. “The potential to over-hype and under-deliver is...

A ‘supplement’ to LTE and 5G? SK Telecom, Sinclair follow up JV with focus on automotive mobility

Cars are 'just one more personalized mobile device,' says Harman CEO After announcing a U.S. joint venture for next-generation television broadcasting earlier this week, Korean mobile operator SK Telecom and Sinclair Broadcasting Group promptly followed up with a deal that brings in automotive software services...

Sacramento taps Silicon Valley AI duo to build HD smart-city maps for GM, Tesla, et al

The City of Sacramento has agreed with two Silicon Valley artificial intelligence (AI) firms to develop high-definition 2D and 3D maps of local road infrastructure to share with car makers in order to make autonomous driving in the city safer. Sacramento, California’s state capital, will...