
KDDI, Orange Business Services partnership drives in-vehicle IoT services
Japanese mobile operator KDDI has partnered with Orange Business Services to provide customized IoT services for Toyota and Mazda. The Orange solution will allow the Japanese automotive manufacturers to offer connected …

Bosch, Mercedes team up on autonomous valet parking at Stuttgart airport
Bosch and Mercedes-Benz have teamed with garage operator Apcoa to test out a new automated driverless valet parking at Stuttgart airport. The new automated valet parking system co-developed by Bosch …

New (private) ‘5G+’ ecosystem to spark $4.5tn tech spend, $8tn economic boom
A so-called 5G+ combination of edge computing, data analytics, and private networking will drive the global economy upwards by seven percent, potentially, or $8 trillion, in 2030. So says a …

New $600m military 5G fund puts focus on smart logistics, industrial AR/VR
A new $600 million round of funding by the US Department of Defense (DOD) is being made available for testing military-grade and industrial-grade 5G. The investment will go into smart …

One pair per minute – Salomon and Siemens team up on Chamatex smart shoe factory
Textile production company Chamatex, in conjunction with sports equipment brand Salomon, are to build a smart shoe factory in France. The site will run automated production of sports shoes, “from …

Arm intros new ‘safety-first’ silicon blueprint to power-up self-driving vehicles, factories
Arm has introduced a suite of new safety-critical computing solutions for autonomous systems in the automotive and industrial sectors. The UK-based firm said its new silicon design blueprints are designed …

Schneider Electric recruits Orange, Nokia for France’s first industrial 5G network
France-based energy management and automation specialist Schneider Electric has deployed the first private indoor 5G network in the industrial sector in France. The firm has worked with mobile operator Orange …

Siemens joins Ericsson-led UK industrial 5G accelerator, declares private 5G the only way
Siemens has joined an industrial 5G accelerator programme as part of a collaboration between Ericsson and UK innovation agency Digital Catapult. US data storage company Seagate and UK robotics specialist …

Elisa teams up with Valtra on remote 5G controlled tractors
Finnish telco Elisa has turned a mass-produced tractor into a “5G remote-controlled work machine” that can carry out tasks that would otherwise put human lives at risk. The work follows …

Bosch installs 5G traffic monitoring video sensors in Peachtree Corners
Peachtree Corners in the US, playing home to a live smart city testbed, has now installed 5G-enabled traffic monitoring video sensors. The city has signed with Bosch to deploy video-based …