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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 logistics and industrial AR and VR systems, alongside combat-orientated aircraft and missile communications and...

Sigfox appears to have made good on its promise to hit the magic dollar mark for asset tracking devices, and to shore up its position in the fragmented IoT networking space as the sector searches for ‘massive’ global scale. The France-based narrowband IoT networking...

Greece has reserved spectrum in low, mid, and high frequency bands for 5G innovation projects, geared towards digital change. It will offer 25 percent of the income (upwards of €90 million) that it raises from the forthcoming national 5G auction back into these research...

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 for high-powered computing scenarios where safety is a critical factor. In particular, it highlighted...

Ericsson has signed off a $1.1 billion deal to purchase US-based Cradlepoint, which provides LTE and 5G wide-area networking (WAN) for the emergency services sector, office and retail spaces, and IoT manufacturing market. The Swedish vendor pitched the deal squarely as a boon for...

The National University of Singapore (NUS) and Singapore Technologies (ST) Engineering have signed a $6.6 million deal on a multi-year research programme to build a “people-centric smart future” for Singapore. A press statement from the pair says the research is for “Singapore, and beyond”,...

FedEx has introduced a new Bluetooth based asset tracking system in time for anticipated shipping of COVID-19 vaccines, as well as for other emergency pharmaceuticals and medical supplies. Customers in the aerospace and retail sectors will also be able to access location data from...

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 analytics to manage driverless shuttles, remote-controlled e-scooters, and regular vehicles. Cradlepoint’s 5G router for...

The Atlanta suburb of Peachtree Corners, in Georgia in the US, is to deploy an AI-based smart city management system to run as a single control window for the city’s entire IoT development. Peachtree Corners is home to the Curiosity Lab smart city project, funded...

Vehicle maker Ford, automotive supplier Bosch, and property developer Bedrock are combining on a demonstration project in Detroit, Michigan, to automated valet parking, so vehicles drive and park themselves in an enclosed garage. The project, at Bedrock’s Assembly Garage in Detroit, is billed as the...

Australia is both the flattest continent on earth and, with the exception of Antarctica, the driest. You can travel 2,000-odd miles across its plains, between Sydney and Perth, without seeing very much at all. At the same time, Australia’s population is spiralling; it is...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has expanded its working relationship with Toyota Motor Corporation to build a cloud platform for the Japan-based firm to process and analyse data from its vehicles. Toyota will use the platform to drive safety and security functions inside connected and...

General Motors (GM) announced plans to make 5G available in most Chevrolet and Buick vehicles beginning 2022. However, the launch, at least for right now, is limited to the Chinese market, most likely the result of unexpected sales success in the country over the...

South Korean’s government-affiliated Korean Expressway Corporation (KEC) has deployed built a network based on Semtech’s LoRa devices and the LoRaWAN protocol for more than 306 km of its expressways. The LoRa-based network is viewed as the “first stage” in the country’s four-year Internet of Things (IoT) deployment...

Verizon is deploying real-time kinematic (RTK) satellite navigation on its 5G network in the US, to offer hyper-precise positioning with centimetre-level location accuracy for IoT tracking services, and notably development of drone deliveries and autonomous vehicles. Standard GPS positioning affords location accuracy of three-to-nine metres;...

The rail transport division of Japanese industrial conglomerate Hitachi Group has announced a deal to acquire UK-based rail technology firm Perpetuum for an undisclosed fee. Perpetuum, based in Southampton, offers train monitoring solutions that combine IoT-based wireless sensors and AI-based data analytics to enable train...

The UK government has awarded £30 million to six new 5G testbeds, as part of a wider £200 million campaign to leverage 5G to energise the UK industrial sector, and as it seeks to open up UK telecoms supply chains. The £30 million package from...

Telefónica’s new digital-change unit, Telefónica Tech, has adapted its existing catalogue of IoT and big data solutions for the post-coronavirus recovery of the retail, tourism, hospitality, transport, and mobility sectors, it has said. The Spain-based operator revealed a five-point reinvention plan at the end of...

A three-year industrial research project in Germany into how to bring safety and intelligence to next-generation transport systems has concluded the only way to is to combine IoT sensors, edge computing, and 5G connectivity in streetlighting infrastructure. The €5.5 million MEC-View project was commissioned by...

Cars featured about 10 million lines of software code a decade ago; they will have closer to 500 million lines of code by the time they drive themselves, some time after 2030. That was the line from Bosch, this week, as it set out...

Mercedes-Benz and NVIDIA have plans to jointly develop an in-vehicle computing system and AI computing infrastructure to be rolled out across the fleet of next-generation Mercedes-Benz in 2024. NVIDIA’s software-defined architecture, built on the company’s DRIVE platform, will become a standard feature in the automotive...

The European Union (EU) has signed off 11 new research projects into development of 5G industry and use cases in Europe, with a focus on mobility, supply chains, and manufacturing, as well as on Europe-based innovation around 5G hardware itself. The new projects are among...

North America contributed to more than one-third of the total connected car market share in 2019 Allied Market Research has published a report that established that the global connected car market generated $63.03 billion in 2019, and further estimated that the market will reach $225.16 billion...

New research from Nokia says one third of enterprises in the energy, manufacturing, cities, and transportation sectors are already using 5G to drive industrial performance and digital change. Three in five enterprises will look to mobile operators for direction when planning 5G services, according...