Keysight Technologies, has introduced the Wireless Coexistence Test Solution, a standards, aligned and automated platform that allows engineers to quickly and reliably verify the performance of wireless devices in the increasingly crowded radio frequency (RF) environments. The launch is aimed at expediting compliance testing, decreasing the possibility of development errors, and helping manufacturers to market safer, more reliable wireless products including IoT (Internet of Things) devices more rapidly.
As wireless devices spread in the fields of healthcare, consumer, industrial, and smart, city, engineers are required to make sure these devices are compatible in the shared spectrum. Keysight’s solution enables scalable testing, early detection of interference and more thorough performance insights, all of these are essential as the variety and demands of IoT applications in networks continue to grow.
What the Wireless Coexistence Test Solution Brings to Market
The Wireless Coexistence Test Solution automates manual coexistence testing. It follows ANSI C63.27, a standard for assessing how wireless devices work with interference. It includes:
A library of almost 100 test scenarios based on the baseline conditions and going up to complex multi, signal environments.
Wideband vector signal generation from 9 kHz to 8. 5 GHz (scalable up to 110 GHz) and supporting modulation bandwidths up to 250 MHz (and eventually 2. 5 GHz) are also provided.
An OpenTAP infrastructure, based automation which has a friendly interface for users and an open architecture for uploading custom waveforms and simulation, based test planning.
Testing time is reduced dramatically, More than 50 percent of the time previously spent on setting up has been saved, Engineers have more time to understand the wireless device behavior instead of constructing test rigs.
Meanwhile, Keysight is also providing consulting services which help pinpoint the key performance parameters of IoT devices and use cases such as latency, throughput, jitter and packet error rates.
Han Sing Lim, Vice President and General Manager of Keysights General Electronic Measurement Division, pointed out that wireless coexistence testing is now a must, have for product safety, performance, and regulatory compliance in actual RF environments.
Why This Matters for the IoT Industry
The Internet of Things (IoT) covers smart homes, industrial automation, wearable tech, and automotive telematics. It relies on dependable wireless connectivity in many different settings. Billions of IoT devices use the same spectrum bands. This makes it hard to ensure they work together without interfering with each other.
1. Reliability in Crowded RF Environments
IoT devices are typically sharing the same limited unlicensed spectrum with protocols such as Wi, Fi, Bluetooth, cellular, Zigbee, LoRaWAN, and others. More deployments inevitably mean increased risks of cross, technology interference, resulting in packet loss, higher latency and erratic behavior, problems that directly lead to the degradation of performance in such scenarios as live health monitoring or factory automation. One way to uncover such issues during development is through automated coexistence testing.
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2. Faster Time to Market with Compliance Assurance
A lot of IoT applications, especially those in heavily regulated medical, automotive safety, and industrial environments, need regulatory certification which includes testing for coexistence. Keysight’s solution is in line with ANSI C63. 27 standards, thus developers can minimize the need for rework, identify interference issues at an early stage, and make better regulatory submissions, in short, all these things can help speed up the development cycle and decrease the compliance risk.
This feature becomes very important as the world’s regulatory agencies are continually increasing the stringency of their approval requirements so as to not only guarantee wireless reliability but also safety and security.
3. Enabling Scalable IoT Innovation
With the help of Keysight’s platform which automates the complex coexistence tests that used to be done manually, small and big IoT developers are given the freedom to innovate with confidence. For instance, the engineers developing factory, floor smart sensors or IoT medical wearables for patient care might want to continue making iterative improvements in performance while they are testing the products in real, world scenarios. Both are able to do it without a time investment that is prohibitive.
Scalability and configurability certainly matter a great deal to heterogeneous IoT networks in which a variety of devices can be found such as low, power wide, area (LPWA) sensors and 5G, connected autonomous equipment, for example.
IoT Ecosystem Business Impacts
Accelerated R&D and Cost Reduction
Identifying coexistence issues at an early stage can save a lot of money because it prevents expensive design changes and compliance problems later on. Companies that employ automated testing can use their engineering resources more efficiently. Thus, the development is accelerated, and the quality of the product is increased, which results in lower overall costs and faster gains from the investment.
Stronger Product Differentiation
Coexistence validated IoT products offer large performance benefits in highly populated RF environments. Dependability is crucial in such areas as smart grids, industrial IoT (IIoT), and connected healthcare. A product with good coexistence performance can therefore be a market leader. It helps in increasing sales and gaining customer trust.
Enhanced Ecosystem Collaboration
Standards, based coexistence testing not only increases ecosystem interoperability but also through the promotion of uniform testing between devices and vendors. When products meet the same set of coexistence criteria, system integrators and service providers can be more confident in the reliability and predictability of multi, vendor IoT solutions when they deploy them.
Conclusion
As IoT grows, billions of new connected devices are expected worldwide. So, wireless coexistence will be more crucial in product design and development. Automated testing solutions like Keysight’s Wireless Coexistence Test Solution help engineers tackle interference issues early. They are scalable, making it easier for teams to manage testing. This reduces risk and ensures reliable wireless performance in various environments.
Solutions that speed up regulatory compliance and verify real-world performance are crucial for the IoT industry’s growth.