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To 6G and Beyond: Penn Engineers Unlock the Next Generation of Wireless Communications
In the early 2010s, LightSquared, a startup promising to revolutionize cellular communications, declared bankruptcy. The company couldn’t figure out how to prevent its signals from interfering with those of GPS systems. Now, Penn Engineers have developed a new tool that could prevent such problems from ever happening again: an adjustable filter that can successfully prevent interference, even in higher-frequency bands of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Technology Report Energy
Kymco’s New Ionex BMU, BaaS Will Boost Electric Scooter Adoption
Taiwanese powersport company Kymco believes we have finally entered the time of the EV. During the 2023 International Motorcycle and Accessories Exhibition (EICMA) held...
Articles Unmanned Systems
Sensor Fusion Expanding in Step with Advancing Vehicle Sophistication
When drivers of passenger vehicles change lanes, brake at stop lights, or accelerate on the highway, they’re probably not thinking about sensors. Sensors monitor,...
Technical Innovation Unmanned Systems
TE Connectivity Powers down High-Power Systems
Commercial trucks and off-highway vehicles, faced with new regulatory developments, customer demands and market pressures, are responding by undergoing a renaissance of innovation. In the...
News Unmanned Systems
Steering Toward Full Vehicle Autonomy
The vision of fully autonomous vehicles (SAE Levels 4 and 5) is fast approaching. Making this vision a reality requires automotive OEMs to move beyond the current levels of vehicle autonomy to...
News Energy
Going the Last Mile
Pizza is a subject that puts a smile on most faces but for Matteo Del Sorbo, the delight extends far beyond the actual pie.
News Unmanned Systems
Autonomous Transit Bus Nears Its First Year of Operation
Since May 2022, Michigan State University students, faculty and staff have been able to ride within campus boundaries on an autonomous electric bus, one of the largest...
Articles Communications
Paving the Way for the Next Wireless Breakthroughs
The pace of wireless innovation is accelerating to enable faster, more responsive, and more reliable connections worldwide.
Briefs Defense
Optimal UAS Assignments and Trajectories for Persistent Surveillance and Data Collection from a Wireless Sensor Network
To meet the DoD’s vision for future UAS capabilities and lower manpower costs, systems incorporating UAS and standoff components are needed.
Articles Software
Securing CAN Networks in Commercial Vehicles
Commercial road vehicles are the backbone of the modern consumer economy. Almost any business from construction, to energy, to online retail at some point relies on the delivery of goods by...
Articles Electronics & Computers
The Next Generation of Mission-Critical Communications Infrastructure is Here
The critical role of spectrum superiority in the success of battlefield campaigns is evidenced by the enormous investments being made in electronic warfare (EW)...
Technical Innovation Manned Systems
WAVE Inductive Charging Purpose-Built for Large EVs
The largest all-electric transit bus fleet in the U.S. serves as a vivid example of commercial vehicles ditching diesel fill-ups. “WAVE’s wireless charging solution is...
News RF & Microwave Electronics
Homing in on STEM Innovation
Constraints are sometimes just new ways to open doors. High school senior Victor Cai (above), an 18-year-old from Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania, learned this lesson working on a short-range, narrow-bandwidth...
The Navigator Connectivity
Vehicle Connectivity Moves to the Next Generation
It’s been 35 years since moviegoers saw Michael Douglas standing on a beach, holding what looked like a brick to his ear, in the film Wall Street. In 1987, wireless mobile...
News Connectivity
Precision Tech the ‘Backbone’ to CNH’s Digital Strategy
When CNH Industrial executives stressed at its recent Capital Markets Day that the company is fast-advancing its offerings in precision technology and accelerating autonomous...
News Electronics & Computers
Prepping Cities for Vehicle Autonomy
While automated vehicles (AVs) use existing streets, highways, traffic lights and signage for guidance, they interact with roadway infrastructure much differently than human drivers. Because AVs are...
News Connectivity
Autonomy’s Computing Edge
Computing clouds get more headlines, but edge computing is likely to play a more crucial minute-by-minute role in the autonomous-vehicle (AV) future. Roughly defined as bringing the processing of data...
News Connectivity
GM Readies Comprehensive New Vehicle-Software Platform
General Motors announced this week that it has developed a new “end-to-end” software platform designed to use over-the-air (OTA) updating capabilities to “connect customers’...
Application Briefs Communications
Secure Wireless Communication System
pureLiFi has announced a new deal to supply the US Army Europe and Africa with Kitefin™, a next generation optical wireless communication system
Articles Test & Measurement
Facing 5G New Radio (NR) Test Challenges
The use of CA, MIMO, and beamforming technologies will lead to more antennas and radio ports that need to be tested.
Articles Communications
Cloud-Connected, Battery-Based IoT Devices Last Years Longer
Demand for wireless IoT cloud-connected devices is growing rapidly, yet deploying Wi-Fi battery-based products is difficult.
Articles Software
Data Drives Driverless Truck Launch
Transforming raw data into high-quality structured data is a critical path to properly fueling machine-learning (ML) models and deploying artificial-intelligence (AI) applications across autonomous...
Articles Electronics & Computers
V2X Signals Are Looking Up
Vehicle-to-vehicle/infrastructure (V2X) hasn’t lived up to expectations, but many feel it will soon become an important factor for improving safety and autonomous driving systems. To make it successful,...
The Navigator Unmanned Systems
C-2VX Is Finally Gaining Momentum in the U.S.
Vehicle to everything (V2X) communications has had a rough go in North America. After more than a decade of development on the Wi-Fi-based dedicated short-range communications (DSRC)...
Technical Innovation Communications
Perkins Expands Power Range with New Large Engines
The timing of Perkins Engines’ North American launch of its most powerful line of electronic engines, which delivers up to 1500-kWe emergency standby power for a range of critical...
News Imaging
Umlaut Benchmarks Vehicle Connectivity: Who’s on Top?
Connectivity’s role in today’s vehicles is mostly focused on driver information and entertainment. But seamless connectivity will play a vital role in highly automated, and...
News Electronics & Computers
Automotive Cybersecurity Needs Serious Work
According to the BlackBerry 2021 Threat Report, which looks at cybersecurity threats of all types on a global basis, “modern automobiles are effectively insecure networks.” The authors...
Articles Communications
TCU Testing at the Heart of Vehicle Connectivity
The wireless connectivity between the modern vehicle and the outside world is possible thanks to a constantly evolving component called the telematics control unit (TCU). The TCU is at...
Articles Unmanned Systems
Purpose, Perceptions for Driver-Assist Tech Solidify
A panel of automated-driving experts at this week’s virtual presentation of SAE International’s annual Government/Industry Meeting had strong opinions on the current state of...
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