While artificial intelligence, for the second year in a row, dominated many sessions at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, location technology as an enabler for asset tracking, connected and autonomous vehicles seemed to be gaining pre-pandemic traction.
One company, Samsung subsidiary HARMAN, launched Ready Aware at MWC Barcelona 2025. Ready Aware is a vehicle-to-cloud software service that provides in-vehicle contextual alerts to to improve a driver’s situational awareness at intersections and around a variety of road hazards, the company said. Marketed to OEMs, Ready Aware is available in North America, Europe, and India.
At MWC, HARMAN and HERE Technologies announced that they are developing direct and cloud-based vehicle-to-everything (V2X) driver assistance systems that can support automotive OEM’s compliance with Euro NCAP 2026 driver assistance programs. The joint offering’s road alerts will provide advanced alerts for accidents, stationary vehicles, and wrong-way drivers, the company said.
Swift Navigation CEO Tim Harris was on a panel at MWC with Deutsche Telekom and Ericsson to discuss how 5GAA and precise GNSS are advancing autonomy. The companies say safe autonomy requires centimeter-level positioning. The companies are integrating RTK GNSS on Ericsson’s 5G routers for transportation, logistics, and heavy machinery markets.
Overall, MWC organizers said the numbers looked good for this year’s show: 109,000 attendees from 205 countries and territories, more than 2,900 exhibitors, sponsors, and partners, and 1,200 speakers.
In other MWC 2025 news:
- Quectel Wireless Solutions launched its LG680P, a quad-band GNSS module for precision agriculture, intelligent robots and surveying. The Quectel LG680P GNSS module can receive signals from GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, BeiDou (BDS), QZSS, and NavIC. With multi-band GNSS support, it concurrently receives L1, L2, and L5 bands.
- Combain Mobile exhibited at the show and announced that their API was available on the AWS Marketplace. The company said the announcement allows businesses to acquire real-time location tracking, IoT and smart devices for connected solutions and asset and fleet management products for indoor and outdoor tracking.
- Fibocom has launched its MQ780-GL Category M module embedded with the Qualcomm QCOM -1.99%↓ E51 4G Modem-RF. MQ780-GL looks to drive adoption of LPWA technologies’ applications including smart metering, asset tracking, and smart cities, the company said. For location-based services, the module includes Soft GPS for asset tracking.
SATELLAI Tracker (SATELLAI). - SATELLAI made its European debut at MWC 2025 with the launch of the SATELLAI Tracker, which is designed for pet owners who explore off-the-grid locations. Equipped with the Qualcomm 9205S Modem, SATELLAI Tracker, available for purchase in June, features GNSS and connects through 680 networks in 180 countries.
- Telit Cinterion rolled out the FE990D and FN990D AI-powered 5G modules and data cards featuring the Qualcomm X85/X82 5G Modem-RF. Both products integrate Qualcomm’s 5G solution to enhance traffic prioritization, optimize energy efficiency, reduce latency and improve location accuracy, the company said.
Dutch IoT Solutions’ DIS-Echo IoT tracker (Dutch IoT Solutions). - Dutch IoT Solutions displayed its DIS-Echo, which combines high-frequency beaconing with Sigfox 0G connectivity. The company says the solutions enables businesses to track valuable assets with their own facilities or across “vast supply chains.”
- The Automotive Edge Computing Consortium (AECC) showcased four auto use cases in a demonstration area, including telematics solutions from Soracom and Toyota for cloud connectivity for connected vehicles.
- AntennaWare and Truesense have partnered to launch the TSRB040 module, a body-wearable UWB device. The module enhances reliability and accuracy in proximity-based applications and RTLS systems, the company said. The module also allows for real-time tracking, secure authentication, and precise localization in environments where traditional UWB solutions struggle due to signal occlusion, the company said.
- Nordic Semiconductor and Skylo have announced a partnership to certify Nordic’s nRF9151 low-power cellular module on Skylo’s satellite network service for IoT markets. The nRF9151 module offers LTE-M, NB-IoT, and DECT NR+ modem, GNSS and cell-based location capabilities.
- STMicroelectronics rolled out two new generations of microcontrollers (MCU) in its STM32 line for use in IoT devices. The STM32WBA6 series is for smart devices like wearable healthcare and wellness monitors, animal collars, electronic locks, and remote weather sensors.
- Sequans Communications announced support for reduced capability (RedCap) 5G in future Calliope and Monarch products. The new third-generation versions of both solutions will have support for 4G/LTE-based cellular IoT technologies. Both were are on display at MWC.
- Haptic, along with Mapbox, was named a shortlist finalist in the GLOMO Awards for HapticNav, which leverages the Mapbox Navigation SDK and Directions API.
Editor’s Note: More Mobile World Congress coverage in next week’s Location Business News.
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