From the Proving Ground: What 5GAA’s Gothenburg Demonstrations Actually Showed
This week, the 5G Automotive Association ran a series of live demonstrations across Sweden, on a public highway south of Gothenburg and at the AstaZero Proving Ground operated by RISE. The format was deliberate: real infrastructure, real traffic conditions, results that either work or don’t.
Satellite-Enabled Commercial Fleet Management
Bosch and Cubic3 demonstrated satellite-enabled commercial fleet management, showing how logistics and commercial vehicles can remain connected even outside terrestrial coverage.
What Else the Programme Covered
In addition, technology partners Vedecom, Rolling Wireless, Rohde & Schwarz, Cubic3, Skylo and Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. demonstrated short messaging and push-to-talk can be handled via satellite for emergency services, ensuring drivers can reach assistance even in areas with limited coverage.
The wider programme covered adjacent ground. BMW, Bosch, and RISE ran a live roadwork monitoring scenario, tracking conditions in real time to provide road operators with the information needed to manage worker safety and push hazard warnings to passing drivers.
Monotch took that further, demonstrating that the same warning data can be passed across national borders without degrading in quality or falling outside governance frameworks, not a trivial problem if this kind of system is ever going to function at a continental scale.
Why Gothenburg Was the Right Setting
AstaZero is one of Europe’s more capable proving environments. Pairing it with live highway conditions meant the demonstrations could not simply be optimised for a controlled setting. What worked there is closer to what would need to work on a road in Bavaria or outside Lyon.
For NTN automotive connectivity, that distinction matters. Satellite connectivity tested only in controlled environments tells you relatively little about how it performs where it is actually needed.
What This Means for Cubic3
For Cubic3, Gothenburg was an opportunity to put NTN automotive connectivity in front of the use cases it needs to serve – fleet operations and driver safety – and to test it in conditions that matter.
It builds directly on the NTN automotive connectivity demonstration at MWC 2026 with Viasat, Qualcomm, and Fraunhofer IIS — moving the technology further along the path from working demo to road-ready deployment.
