Measuring wireless performance of vehicles

Wireless connectivity . in cars is becoming more and more important. The functionality of the cars depends on a reliable wireless communication, e.g., for safety systems, infotainment, traffic warnings and updates of software and maps. To ensure that the desired and required wireless communication is achieved, extensive testing needs to be performed. Today a lot of the testing is done with drive-tests out in the field. However, this is both expensive and can only be done late in the development process, which makes it hard to modify the product.

EMC in Product Development (Part 6)

This article . is a part of a series of texts that will deal with the EMC challenge in terms of project management and the practical EMC activities at different stages in the project flow.
Different companies all have their own way of describing their project flow, so to keep it simple we will use the labels as given in Figure 1. We can call it a generic project flow. The picture only describes the basic outline of the work packages. These articles will describe the actual practical work we want to do in the project to “make EMC work” in a time- and cost-efficient way. Each part of our series will fill in the details for each part piece by piece.
This is the 6th part – Final EMC testing – in our process.

Report from EMC Europe 2019

EMC Europe . International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility was arranged the 2 – 6 September in Barcelona Spain. It was locally organized by Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Campus Nord. EMC Europe is the major European conference on Electromagnetic Compatibility and covers a wide area of topics within EMC. As usual, the conference had tutorials, workshops, poster sessions and oral sessions. High quality scientific and engineering papers were presented in a variety of themes within EMC.

EMC in product development (part 5)

Detail EMC design . This article is a part of a series of texts that will deal with the EMC challenge in terms of project management and the practical EMC activities at different stages in the project flow.
Different companies all have their own way of describing their project flow, so to keep it simple we will use the labels as given in Figure 1. We can call it a generic project flow. The picture only describes the basic outline of the work packages. These articles will describe the actual practical work we want to do in the project to “make EMC work” in a time- and cost-efficient way. Each part of our series will fill in the details for each part piece by piece.
This is the 5th part – Detail EMC design – in our process picture.

EMC Challenges and Solar Panel Systems

The use of . solar panel systems is rapidly increasing and some of these systems are co-located in the vicinity of wireless systems. Measurements have shown that the radiated emission from solar panel electronics can reach considerable levels, in some cases even above CISPR 22 Class B. Here, examples of interference impact is discussed for two examples of wireless applications, air traffic control communications (ATCC) and High-Frequency (HF) communications. The overall conclusion is that co-location of solar panel systems with wireless communications, must be carefully analyzed not to create interference problems.

EMC in Product Development (Part 4)

System EMC Design . This article is a part of a series of texts that will deal with the EMC challenge in terms of project management and the practical EMC activities at different stages in the project flow. Different companies all have their own way of describing their project flow, so to keep it simple we will use the labels as given in Figure 1. We can call it a generic project flow. The picture only describes the basic outline of the work packages. These articles will describe the actual practical work we want to do in the project to “make EMC work” in a time- and cost-efficient way. Each part of our series will fill in the details for each part piece by piece.

Finally, the complete EMC Handbook

Michel Mardiguian . has for many years been an internationally recognized writer and lecturer. Michel’s popular series of EMC-articles in Electronic Environment has also been published on the magazine’s international website with readers from all over the world. Michel Mardiguian has now compiled the large number of articles and course material, for a comprehensive handbook.

Why electricity kills bearings – new insights

An article in Electronic Environment . 2017/2, is about the fundamental failure mechanisms (capacitive, inductive coupling and frame voltage) that cause EDM (Electric Discharge Machining aka Bearing Currents or Electric Erosion) in bearings. This article expands on the theme and shows why “The Simple Explanation”, The Mathematical Models and the Real World view on EDM differ, both in nature and in practical use. It also adds a couple of new insights that are becoming more and more valid with the widespread use of Frequency Inverters and loads with higher-than-normal capacitance to ground.

Massive IoT and EMC

Abstract — . The technical development towards the full vision of the Internet of Things (ioT) is expected to reach it´s full potential by the coming 5G wireless technologies. This will open up for so called massive IoT characterized by co-location densities in the order of 200000 devices per km2. This development will affect the area of Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) in a number of ways and may even be the most challenging issue for the EMC area since it was born for over 100 years ago. In this paper, some of these new challenges are highlighted and discussed. Furthermore, numerical results from some dense co-location scenarios are presented to show examples of interference challenges to be handled.

EMC in Product Development (Part 3)

The concept phase – EMI risk analysis . This article is a part of a series of texts that will deal with the EMC challenge in terms of project management and the practical EMC activities at different stages in the project flow.

Different companies all have their own way of describing their project flow, so to keep it simple we will use the labels as given in Figure 1. We can call it a generic project flow. The picture only describes the basic outline of the work packages. These articles will describe the actual practical work we want to do in the project to “make EMC work” in a time- and cost-efficient way. Each part of our series will fill in the details for each part piece by piece.