
5G-CARMEN autonomous driving project carries out 5G pilot
The 5G autonomous driving test used infrastructure deployed by TIM, Magenta and Deutsche Telekom The 5G-CARMEN project, funded by the European Commission and coordinated by the Bruno Kessler Foundation, …

NEC creates new digital healthcare division, targeting $4.5bn revenues by 2030
Japanese tech giant NEC has announced a new digital healthcare and life science business, as part of its stated mid-term strategy to develop new business units to drive growth for …

Lockheed Martin opens new smart manufacturing facility in California
US aerospace and weapons manufacturer Lockheed Martin has opened a new 215,000 square-foot smart manufacturing facility at its Skunk Works campus and headquarters in Palmdale, in California. It called the …

Microsoft, NEC bundle private 5G, edge and cloud compute, IoT and AI for enterprises
Microsoft and NEC are working together to bundle edge and cloud computing, private 5G networking, and IoT and AI capabilities. The pair are cherry picking from each other’s portfolios, and …

Lockheed Martin preps IoT and AI for space flights, satellite 5G for global weaponry
US aerospace and weapons manufacturer Lockheed Martin has appointed NEC Corporation to help it to apply artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) for system diagnostics in the production and …

Japanese trio NTT, NEC, Fujitsu join with Thai telcos to pitch private 5G to Asia Pacific
Mobile operator NTT DoCoMo has convened with a Japanese-Thai consortium of telecoms companies, including NEC and Fujitsu, to develop an off-the-shelf private 5G system to sell to global enterprise customers. …

NEC installs private 5G and camera-AI at new V2X test centre in Japan
NEC Corporation has opened a mobility test centre in Japan to develop autonomous driving technologies and intelligent transportation systems. The setup uses a private 5G network running high-speed video analytics …

‘A little more or a little less, but it will explode’ – Sigfox on its ‘1B23’ growth target
Sigfox has settled on three primary IoT use cases to deliver massive scale as it carries on its path to reach a billion connections inside the next 24 months, and …

Telensa combines indoor and outdoor smart lighting in single management system
UK firm Telensa is combining indoor and outdoor smart lighting controls into a single management system with certain customers in the UK, the company has said. The projects, with unnamed …

Stop the diggers – smart city apps will run on existing fibre, says Verizon and NEC
Verizon and NEC claim existing fibre networks, rather than purpose-built fibre networks, can be used for optical sensing, to collect data on city traffic conditions and environmental measures. They suggest …