Vodafone Business Platforms and Solutions Director Justin Shields said: 'We might not be able to locate a needle in a haystack yet, but we are getting close.

It will also allow an autonomous truck to mind other road users, including cyclists, whose e-bikes can automatically transmit their position and intended direction of travel. A matter of centimetres could be crucial to ensuring the safety of passengers on a driverless bus, or knowing the precise location of a medical drone. Pinpoint accuracy is critical to the acceptance and mass adoption of autonomous vehicles not just on the road but in factories, airports, dockyards and any site where machines are in motion.

It did this in partnership with leading global positioning provider Sapcorda, using Vodafone's global Internet of Things (IoT) platform – the largest in the world with 118 million connections. Vodafone has successfully used new precision positioning technology to remotely track a vehicle to within just 10 centimetres of its location, an improvement of more than three metres compared with current standard satellite based systems. Vodafone customers will have applications that do all that and more thanks to a new technology it is testing.

16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ - Autonomous trucks need to warn e-bikes of their presence to avoid accidents, first responders need to know the position of critical medical drones with pinpoint accuracy, and operators need to precisely locate precious cargo.

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