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5G paves the future for connected vehicles

With the evolution of 5G, the automotive and telecommunication industries are working to create a Connected, Cooperative and Automated Mobility (CCAM). Connected vehicles are enabling easier, safe and hassle-free road traffic while bringing vehicle infotainment to the next level. 5GMED will demonstrate advanced CCAM and Future Railway Mobile Communications System services (FRMCS)...

Wi-Fi Dedicated Short Range Communications or Cellular Vehicle to Everything: which technology will prevail to create smart traffic systems?

Vehicles are becoming more and more autonomous and smart traffic systems are closer to become a reality. But which technology is better to create connected cars? The choice is between the existing Wi-Fi standard called DSRC (Dedicated Short Range Communications) or CV2X (Cellular Vehicle to Everything), that would eventually use 5G...

What are Europe’s 5G cross-border corridors?

European countries and industry are cooperating to prepare the large-scale deployment of 5G corridors for Connected and Automated Mobility on European transport paths. The European Commission defined digital cross-border corridors, where vehicles can physically move across borders and where cross-border road safety, data access, data quality and reliability, connectivity and digital...

Axbryd, 5GMED’s flexible and dynamic network infrastructure data management plan provider

Axbryd is a startup located in Rome that aims to commercialize the prototypes, mechanisms and protocols designed and developed by the network research group of the CNIT (National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications)/University of Rome Tor Vergata, active in the field of network architectures, network protocols and SDN/NFV.   The Italian startup works...

Two edge orchestration product features developed by Nearby Computing under 5GMED, recognized as innovative by the European Union

Nearby Computing, the Edge and 5G Orchestration and Automation platform company based in Barcelona, Spain, and 5GMED partner, has achieved to have four of its product features recognized as innovations by the Innovation Radar of European Commission, two of them developed in the context of 5GMED. Angelos Antonopoulos, the Innovation Director, explains...

Report: Cross-Border Rail Transport Potential

This report, by the European Union Agency for Railways, assesses how the further removal of technical and operational barriers at European cross-border sections would contribute to the attractiveness and competitiveness of rail transport. Four case studies were selected, two for freight and two for passenger rail transport. The analyses present an...