PARTNER NEWS: HID Global[1] is using Cilab’s ci230 high-speed testing suite[2] to reduce testing bottlenecks and standardise its NFC test results across its labs around the world — and is gaining a positive return on its investment in the equipment in less than a year, engineering director Hans-Juergen Pirch has told NFC World.
HID Global is using Cilab’s equipment for conformance testing of its ISO 14443-standard contactless readers. These are used by the company’s customers in a wide range of application areas, including logical and physical access control and transit ticketing.
The testing standard for ISO 14443 is ISO 10373-6, Pirch explained.
“Before Cilab’s ci230, there was no single off-the-shelf solution that included all the complex requirements of ISO 10373-6.
“Previously, we were performing testing using a lot of different instruments from different manufacturers and we didn’t have exactly the same setup in each of our different labs around the world.
“This meant that qualifying a reader was a task that required a highly skilled RF engineer. And, even then, we could get variance in the results from one test lab to another.”
“RF engineers are a rare breed,” he added. “They are a scarce resource and that creates bottlenecks.
“With Cilab’s ci230, we don’t need to tie up our RF experts to do testing”
“I wanted a completely automated solution so that we could standardise test results across labs and reduce bottlenecks.
“With Cilab’s ci230, we don’t need to tie up our RF experts to do testing. Any test engineer in the lab can do it, all with just a single click of a button.
“And what used to take several hours now takes under a minute. It used to take
