This video takes you on a tour of the OTA full vehicle antenna process. Learn how OEMs and their suppliers can characterize antenna performance, test RF robustness and perform functional end-to-end tests, to optimize infotainment user experience, maximize safety and ensure reliable autonomous driving.
The modern vehicle supports a wide range of wireless technologies that enable features and services such as remote access, video streaming and emergency braking. With the advent of autonomous driving and advanced infotainment, vehicle users become increasingly reliant on digital services and a seamless wireless performance is essential for the always-connected vehicle. There is constant communication to and from each vehicle in a complex wireless environment.
Wireless communications rely primarily on the performance of the antennas and telematic control unit (TCU). Therefore, vehicle manufacturers and their suppliers need to characterise radiation performance, verify RF robustness ensure co-existence of different wireless technologies and ultimately validate the functions and services enabled by wireless connectivity. Accurate and versatile over the air full vehicle antenna test systems from Rohde & Schwarz meet these requirements and beyond with an impressive range of features and benefits. Such as:
- Fully characterise the radiation pattern of a vehicle’s antennas to optimize the position and performance.
- Verify the continued performance of multiple antennas supporting different wireless technologies in the presence of interferers.
- Emulate a network and establish an end-to-end connection to functional test in a controlled RF environment and confirm that features and services work correctly.
Watch this video to find out how expensive and time-consuming field tests can now be conducted in a controlled, standards-compliant and repeatable RF environment. By enabling OEMs and their suppliers to characterize antenna performance and perform functional end-to-end tests, full vehicle antenna testing plays a major role to optimize infotainment user experience, maximize safety and ensure reliable autonomous driving.