Communications

The vast amount of data created by a smart city data risks being of limited use unless it is supported by context, according to European standards body ETSI, which is attempting to formalise contextual information. ETSI said: Data without context are meaningless. The context seems obvious to humans: the temperature sensor is attached to an air-conditioner in the house, the ...

5G mobile technology groups – Small Cell Forum (SCF) and 5G Americas – have worked together on tech papers to support the deployment of small cells. The reports, Small Cell Siting: Regulatory and Deployment Considerations and Multi-Operator and Neutral Host Small Cells: Drivers, Architectures, Planning and Regulation, are hoped to simplify the planning and regulatory issues associated with the dense Heterogeneous Network (HetNet) deployments that will ...

5G mobile technologies and the impact they are expected to have on the connected world of billions of IoT devices will be a big theme at CES 2017, which takes place in Las Vegas next month. Gary Shapiro, president and CEO, CTA, which organises the exhibition, writes: “From the Internet of Things, to virtual reality to self-driving cars and beyond, connectivity is ...

A group of MPs in the the British Infrastructure Group (BIG) have proposed compulsory roaming on mobile operators, as a means of improving rural coverage.

Today sees the formal adoption of the latest Bluetooth wireless comms standard - Bluetooth 5 - incorporating all the low energy features previously seen in Bluetooth Smart

With the immminent ratification of the Bluetooth 5 standard, Nordic Semiconductor has announced its Bluetooth 5 ready nRF52840 SoC.

Raytheon UK has developed a positioning and navigation system that adds 3D dead-reckoning to global navigation satellite systems (GNSSs, GPS for example), allowing navigation inside buildings. Called ‘Strider’, it comes in two parts – a ‘boot-mounted unit’ (BMU) and a phone app. Inside the BMU are MEMS accelerometers, gyros and a pressure sensor (height). This communicates with the ‘Strider Location ...

Building the mobile network for 5G will be completely different from what has gone before says the UK government. The Department of Culture, Media & Sport has commissioned Ordnance Survey (OS) to develop a new mapping tool to plan the national rollout of 5G wireless networks. The 5G Innovation Centre at the University of Surrey and the Met Office will also be involved in the ...

LiFi is a disruptive technology that is poised to impact a large number of industries, believes Harald Haas, Professor of Mobile Communications at the University of Edinburgh

DAF trucks will drive through Munich in a nose-to-tail computer-controlled convoy – so called ‘platooning’. “The demonstrations include platooning live on Munich roads, and traffic signal and vehicle synchronisation, with technology that protects vulnerable road users based on secure vehicle-to-everything technology [V2X, see below],” said NXP, which is involved in the demonstration. Previously, with TNO and Ricardo (in the EcoTwin truck ...