Privacy purists cannot be allowed to block the end of lockdown

Innovations in technology continue to offer hope in the fight against the spread of coronavirus. From thermal sensors which detect symptoms to track and trace apps, it seems inevitable, says Alicia Asin, co-founder and CEO of Libelium, that new technology holds at least part of the key to enabling us to return to some sense of normality.

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RoboSense LiDAR partners with DT Mobile on V2I cooperation for smart cities

RoboSense has teamed up with DT Mobile to deploy the first Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) solution based on the MEMS solid-state LiDAR in Xiong’an New Area, Hebei, China. RoboSense is an autonomous driving LiDAR perception solution provider, and DT Mobile is a China-based communication equipment manufacturer.

This marks the start of MEMS solid-state LiDAR being used in V2I projects. Prior to this, there were several pilot projects of RoboSense LiDAR solution for V2I operating in Hangzhou, Shanghai, and Shenzhen. The RoboSense LiDAR developed according to the roadside perception needs of the V2I system, gives autonomous vehicles eyes from the sky to accurately sense every traffic participant, ensuring traffic safety and efficiency as well as information services applications.

Xiongan New Area in North China’s Hebei province is on the cusp of building a smart city with new technologies. Its first “5G and smart bus” V2I pilot project was jointly built by Hebei radio and television information network group (HBTN), China Communications Construction, and DT Mobile.

The HBTN is responsible for the deployment of the 5G network environment; China Communications Construction is in charge of the construction of the road infrastructure; DT Mobile manages the transformation of the vehicle end, C-V2X equipment, and end-to-end solutions, while RoboSense provides one-stop roadside LiDAR solution (including sensor hardware and perception algorithm software).

As the main hardware in the project, LiDAR breaks through the limitations of conventional sensors as cameras (easily affected by ambient light) or millimetre-wave radars (with low ranging accuracy). LiDAR can actively emit lasers to detect and collect 3D environment data in real-time with high ranging accuracy, adapting to different light environments and can operate24 hours a day. The RS-LiDAR-M1 is intelligent, low-cost, stable, and reliable, with a simplified structure and small size, which meets the needs of future mass deployment of 5G and V2I construction.

The RoboSense RS-LiDAR-Algorithms offer the V2I project with accurate and reliable perception and rich extended functions. Before RoboSense’s establishment in 2014, the founding team of RoboSense, including the founder Dr. Steve Qiu (Chunxin Qiu), has been developing point cloud perception algorithms for more than 7 years. To date, RoboSense has been cultivating in this field for more than 12 years.

The RS-LiDAR-Algorithms maintain high accuracy while ensuring a very high detection rate on road, which greatly improves the LiDAR’s perception ability, and adapt it to a variety of road, weather, and traffic conditions, not only in simple road conditions, such as highways, but also roads with complex challenges, such as intersections with Chinese characters during peak commuting hours and in dense traffic. The RS-LiDAR-Algorithms solve a large number of corner cases and ensures that all kinds of traffic participants are accurately detected even in extreme cases.

“We are very pleased that RoboSense and DT Mobile have reached strategic cooperation on V2I solution for 5G-based smart city development,” RoboSense COO Mark Qiu says. “In addition to increasing investment by combining both parties’ advantages, we will also vigorously carry out the test and verification of the solution to ensure the safety of autonomous driving applications, further advancing the development of the automotive industry with the new technology breakthroughs on the Vehicles-to-Internet.”

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Austria’s A1 Digital and BigML support COVID-19 research

A1 Digital, a subsidiary of A1 Telekom Austria Group reports that, together with its strategic partner BigML, it will make machine learning capacity available free of charge to international research institutions. The limited Machine-Learning-as-a-Service offer applies to all research institutions dealing with the medical, economic and social consequences of the pandemic. “The current exceptional situation confronts all of

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Vodafone Business and Energy Web bring IoT and blockchain to renewable and distributed assets

Energy Web (EW) and Vodafone Business, launched a new partnership to help improve the integration of renewable and distributed energy assets within power grids using secure Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity and blockchain technology. Vodafone Business is a global communications company and a specialist in the IoT with more than 100 million connections worldwide. The

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Video camera cellular connections to reach 20.4mn in Europe and N America by 2024

IoT market research provider, Berg Insight, has released a new market report covering the connected video camera market. The report focuses on the following five application areas: city surveillance; commercial buildings and industrial site surveillance; smart home security cameras; body-worn cameras; and video telematics for commercial vehicles. The installed base of video cameras in Europe

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Video camera cellular connections to reach 20.4mn in Europe and N America by 2024

IoT market research provider, Berg Insight, has released a new market report covering the connected video camera market. The report focuses on the following five application areas: city surveillance; commercial buildings and industrial site surveillance; smart home security cameras; body-worn cameras; and video telematics for commercial vehicles.

The installed base of video cameras in Europe and North America will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18.1% from 183.0 million units in 2019 to 420.3 million units in 2024. North America is the most successful region of the two and accounted for close to 70% of the total installed base in 2019.

Today, city, commercial building and industrial site surveillance is the largest segment accounting for 60.1% of the installed base. Smart home security cameras is the second largest segment, accounting for 38.4% of the installed base. Video telematics for commercial vehicles and body-worn cameras are smaller segments, representing around 1.1% and 0.4% of the installed base respectively.

Video cameras connected via cellular networks have traditionally been rather uncommon mainly due to requirements on bandwidth and reliability. Berg Insight estimates that only about 2% of the installed base of connected video cameras today use cellular technology.

With the introduction of 5G networks, which is currently being rolled out across Europe and North America, the number of video cameras featuring cellular connectivity is anticipated to grow fast. Berg Insight forecasts that the installed base of video cameras featuring cellular connectivity will grow at a CAGR of 40.7% from 3.7 million units 2019 to 20.4 million units in 2024.

5G communications technology will have a major impact on all the video camera segments covered in this study and will result in a range of new use cases as well. Video surveillance systems will now be possible to install at remote or difficult locations. Body-worn cameras can provide police officers and other workers in the field with real-time data that are crucial for operations. “Video is anticipated to become one of the early volume 5G IoT connectivity use cases”, says Martin Backman, IoT Analyst at Berg Insight.

He adds that video camera vendors are now ramping up their efforts to offer a range of 5G video cameras in the near future. “The market potential for all connected video camera segments is huge as new breakthrough technologies such as artificial intelligence and facial recognition are adopted on a wider scale”, concludes Mr. Backman.

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RoboSense LiDAR partners with DT Mobile on V2I cooperation for smart cities

RoboSense has teamed up with DT Mobile to deploy the first Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) solution based on the MEMS solid-state LiDAR in Xiong’an New Area, Hebei, China. RoboSense is an autonomous driving LiDAR perception solution provider, and DT Mobile is a China-based communication equipment manufacturer.

This marks the start of MEMS solid-state LiDAR being used in V2I projects. Prior to this, there were several pilot projects of RoboSense LiDAR solution for V2I operating in Hangzhou, Shanghai, and Shenzhen. The RoboSense LiDAR developed according to the roadside perception needs of the V2I system, gives autonomous vehicles eyes from the sky to accurately sense every traffic participant, ensuring traffic safety and efficiency as well as information services applications.

Xiongan New Area in North China’s Hebei province is on the cusp of building a smart city with new technologies. Its first “5G and smart bus” V2I pilot project was jointly built by Hebei radio and television information network group (HBTN), China Communications Construction, and DT Mobile.

The HBTN is responsible for the deployment of the 5G network environment; China Communications Construction is in charge of the construction of the road infrastructure; DT Mobile manages the transformation of the vehicle end, C-V2X equipment, and end-to-end solutions, while RoboSense provides one-stop roadside LiDAR solution (including sensor hardware and perception algorithm software).

As the main hardware in the project, LiDAR breaks through the limitations of conventional sensors as cameras (easily affected by ambient light) or millimetre-wave radars (with low ranging accuracy). LiDAR can actively emit lasers to detect and collect 3D environment data in real-time with high ranging accuracy, adapting to different light environments and can operate24 hours a day. The RS-LiDAR-M1 is intelligent, low-cost, stable, and reliable, with a simplified structure and small size, which meets the needs of future mass deployment of 5G and V2I construction.

The RoboSense RS-LiDAR-Algorithms offer the V2I project with accurate and reliable perception and rich extended functions. Before RoboSense’s establishment in 2014, the founding team of RoboSense, including the founder Dr. Steve Qiu (Chunxin Qiu), has been developing point cloud perception algorithms for more than 7 years. To date, RoboSense has been cultivating in this field for more than 12 years.

The RS-LiDAR-Algorithms maintain high accuracy while ensuring a very high detection rate on road, which greatly improves the LiDAR’s perception ability, and adapt it to a variety of road, weather, and traffic conditions, not only in simple road conditions, such as highways, but also roads with complex challenges, such as intersections with Chinese characters during peak commuting hours and in dense traffic. The RS-LiDAR-Algorithms solve a large number of corner cases and ensures that all kinds of traffic participants are accurately detected even in extreme cases.

“We are very pleased that RoboSense and DT Mobile have reached strategic cooperation on V2I solution for 5G-based smart city development,” RoboSense COO Mark Qiu says. “In addition to increasing investment by combining both parties’ advantages, we will also vigorously carry out the test and verification of the solution to ensure the safety of autonomous driving applications, further advancing the development of the automotive industry with the new technology breakthroughs on the Vehicles-to-Internet.”

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Vodafone Business and Energy Web bring IoT and blockchain to renewable and distributed assets

Energy Web (EW) and Vodafone Business, launched a new partnership to help improve the integration of renewable and distributed energy assets within power grids using secure Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity and blockchain technology.

Vodafone Business is a global communications company and a specialist in the IoT with more than 100 million connections worldwide.

The partnership will combine subscriber identity module (SIM)-centric blockchain technology (SCB) with IoT connectivity from Vodafone Business to create secure identities for energy assets. This means that renewable and distributed assets like wind turbines, batteries, heat pumps, and solar panels can be integrated with energy grids safely and efficiently.

Similar to the way telecom operators securely identify mobile phones using SIM cards, the partnership will enable energy grid players to recognise distributed energy assets connected to their power grids. The ability to identify and validate distributed-generation assets in the smart grid is essential to maintain its stability. This is made possible thanks to the integration between the global connectivity provided by Vodafone Business IoT and the Energy Web Decentralised Operating System (EW-DOS).

Vodafone Business is EW’s first strategic partner from the telecom sector and brings the technology capability and global footprint that will help accelerate the delivery of EW’s mission to decarbonise the grid.

Recent research from Gartner estimates utilities are already grappling with more than 1.1 billion IoT endpoints last year, such as smart meters, heat pumps, batteries, and electric vehicles. Vodafone Business has a proven track-record in providing IoT digital solutions to energy providers globally, including smart metering and smart grid solutions.

The technology communication company’s expertise is set to become even more important in the years ahead, as power grids around the world increasingly digitalise and decentralise.

“We are seeing the convergence of multiple sectors in making the energy transition happen — the energy sector, of course, but also automotive, telecoms, and even finance. From our perspective, the energy sector can only evolve so fast and so far without taking into account IoT connectivity,” says Walter Kok, CEO of Energy Web. “Bringing together EW’s expertise in energy and decentralisation with Vodafone Business’ leadership in IoT creates a really powerful combination.”

“As the number of decentralised, new-generation, low-carbon devices grows, so does the need for them to be securely connected regardless of their location,” comments Erik Brenneis, Vodafone Business IoT director. “This connection needs to be simple and secure, ensuring assets are easily able to be connected to, and managed by, energy and communication networks around the globe. At Vodafone Business IoT, we believe that technology and connectivity can be used to help protect the planet and improve people’s lives. We are proud to work together with Energy Web to make this a reality.”

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