Transport

Telefónica is to deploy a 5G network for Netherlands-based port operating company APM Terminals at the Port of Barcelona. The network, in a pilot phase, will be used to connect cranes, vehicles, and people in the port area, to manage traffic and improve worker safety. The project goes live next summer. Telefónica will deploy 5G […]

A consortium of eight companies led by Cellnex Telecom and Grupo MASMOVIL will roll out a 5G pilot (‘Piloto 5G Catalunya’) in the Barcelona metropolitan area to test and develop innovative solutions for the education, industry, commerce, tourism, transport, safety and emergency management sectors. The project will launch in September and run until December 2022.

Ericsson, Telia and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) have partnered to carry out a demonstration of a 5G autonomous ferry. The partners demonstrated a small connected passenger ferry, using artificial intelligence (AI), in the Norwegian city of Trondheim.

The Hamburg Port Authority (HPA), Deutsche Telekom and Nokia have completed an 18-month field test of 5G slicing and industrial IoT at the Port of Hamburg. The tests at the ‘smart seaport’ in Hamburg, running on an 8,000-hectare site between January 2018 and June 2019, covered one strand of the European Union’s two-part 5G-MoNArch (5G mobile […]

The first European 5G NR video call was achieved in Rome over TIM’s 5G network in mmWaves frequency band, powered by the Snapdragon X50 5G modem equipment from Qualcomm Technologies Inc. The network infrastructure was provided by Ericsson. TIM demonstrated its new ultra-fast mobile network with a remote-driven car, a remote control of industrial robots, […]

Cagliari will be the 6th Italian city to test 5G (after Milan, Prato, L’Aquila, Bari and Matera) since the government’s approval for 5G trials in the city by the local telco Fastweb in partnership with the vendor Huawei to develop IT solutions and services in the areas of health, transport, waste management, logistics, security and […]

In the frame of European project “5Groningen” in the Netherlands, tests for 5G applications are undertaken in five different themes: care, energy, traffic & logistics, agriculture and living environment. This initiative from the Economic Board Groningen (EBG) was launched in early 2017 in collaboration with KPN, Vodaphone, Ericsson, Huawei and others.

Telefónica , Nokia , TELDAT and Avanza , with the collaboration of the City of Segovia , launched a 5G demonstrator of 4K UHD TV in a moving bus in Spain. The vehicule was equiped with three 4K TV screens installed  by Telefónica and Avanza, connected to a 4K TV decoder designed by Nokia that […]

Orange Spain announced 5G pilot tests in seven cities lasting until the end of 2019. The selection includes Barcelona, Seville, Santiago de Compostela, Vigo, Malaga, Valencia and Bilbao for the testing of 35 use scenarios of 5G networks applied to connected cars, industrial automation and virtual classrooms.

The project solutions are demonstrated through a proof-of-concept infrastructure setup at Airbus in Munich. Network equipment from Ericsson, including ground macro base station radio equipment products, a connectivity and virtualization “flight rack”, and 5G virtualized core network functionalities are delivered and operated from Ericsson’s ICT Development Center Eurolab near Aachen (which is also engaged in […]