UL said that its facilities in Fremont, California, and Basingstoke, in southern England, were already equipped to provide EMC testing for consumer electronics and a number of other industries including medical devices and automotive.
According to the company, Silicon Valley-based Fremont facility will soon feature new EMC and millimeter wave (mmWave) chambers allowing for faster testing times to help meet customers’ time-to-market needs.
The Basingstoke lab, meanwhile, will be expanded to offer testing capabilities from 30 megahertz to 18 gigahertz without changing configuration, “allowing quicker testing as it does not require setup changes,” UL said in a statement.
Maan Ghanma, director of smart solutions in the Consumer, Medical and Information Technologies group at UL Solutions, said the expansion in EMC safety science testing capabilities and capacity would help meet growth in “the IoT and wireless device markets.”
Ghanma said: “Accompanied by our global safety certification and market access offerings, these expanded capabilities will strategically serve and support our customers as demand for innovative wireless devices continues to rise.”
In addition to EMC, UL Solutions also offers testing capabilities for Thread 1.3, a low-power and low-latency wireless mesh networking protocol, and Matter 1.0, the Connectivity Standards Alliance’s newly released industry-unifying standard for smart home technology, at select laboratories in the US, UK, Taiwan and China.
The company also offers testing capabilities for Zigbee at select laboratories in the US and UK.