Information Technology

The City of London is to get a small cell mobile communication pilot project, offering multi-operator 4G and 5G connectivity at street level. “If the pilot is successful, the ambition is for a City-wide deployment that will deliver faster mobile connectivity speeds across the Square Mile”, according to network service provider Freshwave, which will be working with mobile infrastructure services provider Cornerstone ...

AMD has released more information on its Ryzen 6000 Pro series of processors for laptops, with eight 6nm ‘Zen 3+’ cores and RDNA 2 graphics. Much of the announcement was around increased performance and longer battery life when running Microsoft office and videoconferencing software, but there was also significant emphasis on cybersecurity provisions. “We saw new threats emerge as cybercrimes increased ...

UK electric vehicle charge-point provider InstaVolt has picked Eseye cellular IoT technology for its UK charger network. Eseye is a service-provider that can, automatically over-the-air, swap between network operators for IoT nodes that communicate over cellular networks. Its service works with special SIM card, dubbed ‘AnyNet+ eSIM’, and is built on the eUICC standard for network operator swapping. Pod Point, Shell ...

The UK government’s Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF) is to spend up to £8m on projects that improve UK cyber security, in grants from £200,000 to £1.4m, which will be allocated after a competition ending on 08 December. Part of the Government’s ‘Digital security by design challenge’ (DSbD challenge), the aim of the ‘Software ecosystem development competition’ is to fund ...

Responding to visitor number increases due to the Pandemic, the Cairngorms National Park Authority it to installed a network of IoT sensors to monitor foot fall, route usage and vehicle parking. The network will also be available to local businesses to deploy data gathering sensors, providing them with the opportunity to gain key data and insights on how they can improve their ...

ETSI has identified problems arising from pervasive encrypted traffic in communications networks as part of a programme to integrate encrypted traffic. At issue is end-to-end encryption, which can hamper network management, anti-fraud operations, cybersecurity and regulatory monitoring. ETSI’s Industry Specification Group on Encrypted Traffic Integration (ISG ETI) is looking into the problem, and has made public an ‘Encrypted traffic integration problem statement’, ...

Realtek has licensed Imagination Technologies’ IMG B-Series BXE-4-32 GPU for a system-on-chip aimed at mass market digital television. BXE-4-32 was selected, said Imagination, for area efficiency while processing four pixels per clock, plus its multi-core capability and cache configurability. BXE also features Imagination’s IMGIC multiple-quality-level real-time image compression technology that “enables DTV platforms with a BXE-4-32 GPU to configure and optimise ...

The Queen and the Princess Royal have visited Glasgow satellite maker Spire Global, as part of a week of engagements across Scotland. Spire designs and manufactures all of its satellites in-house at Glasgow’s Skypark, where it has been since 2015. “It was an honour to welcome Her Majesty and Her Royal Highness,” said Spire co-founder and v-p engineering Joel Spark. ...

The DALI Alliance has specified wireless-to-DALI gateways to link existing DALI wired products with Bluetooth mesh or Zigbee wireless ecosystems. “Wireless to DALI gateways provide the flexibility to incorporate DALI luminaires and other DALI devices into the control network, so it becomes straightforward to add lighting capabilities alongside the other features of the wireless ecosystem,” according to the Alliance. “Existing ...

UK national standards body BSI has published a standard covering automated vehicle trial data collection and management for incident investigation. It is the fourth publication from the CAV Standards Programme backed by CCAV, the government’s Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles, and delivered with the Department for Transport, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), Innovate UK and Zenzic. The document is PAS 1882:2021 ...