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Renesas and Cohda collaborating on V2V and V2I communications; V2X reference solution available in 2017

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Cohda Wireless will demonstrate the jointly-developed V2X reference solution consisting of Renesas’ R-Car W2R and R-Car W2H SoCs combined as a starter kit and Cohda Wireless’ software at the ITS World Congress 2016 taking place 10-14 October in Melbourne, Australia.

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HALO research aircraft measuring the emissions of megacities in EmeRGe project

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In EMeRGe the composition of the plumes of pollution entering and leaving Europe and leaving Asia will be measured by performing optimized transects and vertical profiling. DLR will provide information about the location of the flights conducted via its social media channels. DLR both owns and operates the aircraft.

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Mercedes-Benz to introduce smartphone-based Car-to-X technology in production vehicles by year-end

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Through the use of C2X communication, information on potential road traffic dangers can be passed on to drivers at an early stage so that they can take appropriate action and even help to avoid critical situations arising in the first place, the automaker noted. Earlier post.). Use examples.

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Ukrainian Volunteers Use 3D Printers to Save Lives

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Therefore, when it received new information that there was a great shortage of combat application tourniquets (CATs) for the military, in just a few days they had developed a tourniquet design that could be 3D printed, and began to modify it for better performance.

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Elon Musk’s Starlink provides free internet in West German areas ravaged by floods

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Rhineland-Palatinate has set up Starlink kits to provide free web access to citizens to help them communicate with family and authorities. Tesla enables free Supercharging for sites affected by the floods in Europe. This is where Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet system is making a difference.

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Internet of Things gets major distance boost from IBM and Semtech

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quintillion bytes of new data every day, while every hour enough information is transported on the Internet to fill seven million DVDs. For comparison, the maximum distance today of a smart-meter transceiver in Europe, utilizing FSK modulation, is between one and two kilometers (1.2 These new devices will generate more than 2.5

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“Software-Defined Car” project seeks to develop standardized rules and processes; SofDCar

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Academic partners include Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), University of Stuttgart, the Research Institute of Automotive Engineering and Vehicle Engines Stuttgart (FKSF), and the FZI Research Center for Information Technology, an innovation partner of KIT. —Professor Michael Weyrich.

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