UAEU and Ericsson sign MoU to collaborate on smart communications use cases with a focus on autonomous driving.
United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) and Ericsson announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding at GITEX Global to collaborate on the development and testing of 5G use cases with a specific focus on autonomous driving. The collaboration promises to accelerate development and testing of autonomous transport solutions in line with the Dubai Autonomous Transportation Strategy.
Autonomous driving and smart transportation
The two parties hope to create a testbed for new technologies and work with the region’s communication service providers to discover how 5G can create a safe, widely-adopted autonomous driving environment and support smart transportation systems.
As autonomous vehicles become more common, vast quantities of data will need to travel over dedicated networks as fleet operators work to maintain and update their vehicles. Vehicles will also need to communicate with each other, various elements of the surrounding infrastructure and pedestrians. 5G connectivity offers the means by which these networks can be created.
25% of vehicles driverless by 2030
Ericsson and UAEU’s collaboration is in line with Dubai’s Autonomous Transportation Strategy, one goal of which is to make 25% of vehicles driverless by 2030. The work also has the potential to create a new generation of transport use cases.
Wojciech Bajda, Vice President and Head of Gulf Council Countries at Ericsson Middle East and Africa said: “Since our inception, we have been harnessing technology to develop innovative solutions that benefit society. With autonomous driving promising to enable a much safer and sustainable ecosystem, it becomes necessary to address and solve some of the key challenges facing the technology today. We are confident our collaboration with UAEU will help addressing some of the challenges and opportunities around smart and autonomous transportation- not just in the UAE but also all around the world.”
