VdS Expands Lab Capabilities to Test Products with Operating Frequencies up to 6 GHz
VdS has announced that it has adapted its service portfolio and protects manufacturers with cost-effective interference immunity tests for fitting reality as well as future standard demands which include Industry 4.0, digital facility management, distributed systems, IoT demand higher transmission frequencies.
Mobile radio standard 5G or technical building equipment such as WLAN already communicate well above the 2.7 GHz limit specified for EMC interference immunity tests in the “product family standard” for alarm systems EN 50130-4. An adaptation of the harmonized standards taking into account higher test frequencies is expected; the generic standards EN IEC 61000-6-1/2 already include these. In view of the quite critical discrepancy between the currently still valid test spectrum and the actual radio interferences, VdS now adapts its service portfolio.
"The standard specifications are being overtaken by reality – as usual, we provide assurance to manufacturers at an early stage," explains Frank Hunold, head of the EMC laboratories at VdS. “This is why we have already upgraded our absorber halls for testing with electromagnetic fields to 6 GHz. Our customers now have the opportunity to include this in ongoing test procedures at minimal extra costs, thus avoiding separate re-tests at a later stage.“
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