We have all heard the term 5G thrown around a lot in the last decade, it has been hyped up especially in the past few years, but it is only now as we approach a clear definition of how 5G will actually be installed that we can see it is a very different beast from previous generations of cellular technology.

  Research into connected cars by Rethink’s Riot Research division has shown that consumers have little interest in connected cars. Some small number of consumers have shown interest - so far just under 16 million owners out of the 105 million plus cars which could buy services from a connected car, have actually committed monthly cash to the provision of services – under 16%.

As smart city technologies begin to emerge in volume, their network requirements will have to cope with 5G workloads, and will need to do that in a 5G way. This month Rethink Internet of Things (Riot) takes an in-depth look at a smart city approach which is built around the municipality’s own fibre, Software Defined Networks and cloud analytics software – a system which will survive the transition into a 5G world, as it sear...

Globally, car manufacturers are crossing their fingers and hoping that connected cars will not be attacked. They refuse to work together and instead are moving forward with a multiplicity of security strategies which will be weaker than not going down the standards route. Automakers are being all too slowly drawn to modern security techniques to plug the security holes in connected cars. Rethink Internet of Things (Riot) questions whether that tr...