Tag: 5G
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Viodi View – 02/3/18
A recent newspaper column suggested decentralizing governance and shifting it away from single point hubs, such as Washington D.C., to locations closer to the affected people or industries, For instance, in this scenario, Kansas might be home to the Department of Agriculture. This echos industry stalwart Cliff Albertson’s similar suggestion, made almost five years ago in this ViodiTV…
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The See Through Car – P2P Possibilities #CES2018
The promise of Vehicle-to-Vehicle communications has been around the corner and illustrated in presentations for decades, so it was a treat to see the technology in product form at CES2018, In the above video, Dr. Amine Taleb, Director of R&D for Comfort and Driving Assistance for Valeo North America, demonstrates Valeo’s XtraVue, which streams video…
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Viodi View – 07/15/17
Who knew in 1993, that VOD would become an app provided by a 3rd-party. The vision was that network provider would have the relationship with the content owners for the delivery of on-demand content. At that time, it was a struggle to get a handle on the technology, much less engage the content part of…
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The Maturation of the Autonomous Vehicle Space
Reflecting upon the comments and insight from this week’s Automated Vehicle Symposium 2017, the automated vehicle space feels like the Video on Demand space did a couple of decades ago. The technology wizards are making great progress and its obvious the industry is maturing because there are multiple companies addressing both mainstream challenges, as well…
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DSRC or 5G?
Which radio technology will win the day in the autonomous vehicle future; DSRC (Dedicated Short Range Communications) or 5G (or 5GAA (PDF))? As Brian Daugherty, CTO of the Motor and Equipment Manufacturers Association (MEMA) suggests in the above interview, these different radio technologies are likely to be complementary, fulfilling different needs. An important premise is…
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Viodi View – 10/15/16
A few years ago we spoke to a couple of engineers who had a concept for using wireless mesh techniques for allowing communications between people, without requiring a communications grid. At that time, we questioned why FirstNet wasn’t looking at this approach for its nationwide safety network, as simple modeling suggested a social mesh method would be…