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Inside China Tech: 5G revs up smart mobility initiatives
- Widespread 5G service coverage is expected to drive the roll-out of various smart mobility initiatives in Hong Kong
- Shanghai has become a major spot for 5G-backed C-V2X smart road infrastructure in China
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Hello, This is Bien Perez from the South China Morning Post’s Technology desk, with a wrap of some of our leading stories this week.
With a population of more than 7 million in a land area of 1,100 square kilometres, Hong Kong is conducting network trials for 5G mobile applications that are smaller in scale than those in mainland China.
But like the world’s second largest economy, the city is sharpening its focus on adapting 5G’s advanced capabilities in so-called cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) communications. This smart mobility technology enables the exchange of information between vehicles, pedestrians and roadside communications infrastructure, with the primary goals of improving road safety and making traffic flow more efficiently.
Part of Hong Kong’s envisioned intelligent transport system, C-V2X would also allow a new range of connected vehicles and advanced levels of autonomous driving to be introduced in the city.
“We’re enabling some Hong Kong-based 5G applications to enhance the autonomous vehicle experience,” said Eric Tsang, chief technologist of baseband solutions at the Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI). Founded in 2000, this government institute’s mission is to enhance the city’s hi-tech competitiveness through applied research.
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