TUV Rheinland Expands Global Wireless Testing Capability

LITTLETON, MA--(Marketwired - May 16, 2017) -  TÜV Rheinland, a leading international testing service provider for quality and safety, today announced that it has expanded its global wireless communication testing capabilities by acquiring a world-class facility from Tech Mahindra. The Lund-based facility will form the home office of TÜV Rheinland's newly established subsidiary in Sweden.

"We can now offer our customers long-range wireless testing services, as well as antenna performance tests like Over The Air (OTA)," explained Stefan Kischka, Vice President Wireless/Internet of Things, TÜV Rheinland. "We will also focus on regulatory tests, approvals, and various protocol tests at the Lund site in the future."

The Lund laboratory is located in the heart of a technology cluster consisting of research and development companies, manufacturers and integrators. "The laboratory in Lund is the launching pad for TÜV Rheinland to enter the Scandinavian market," said Anders Nordlöf, Managing Director, National Subsidiary TÜV Rheinland Sweden AB.

Earlier this year, TÜV Rheinland opened a state-of-the-art Internet of Things (IoT) excellence center in Fremont, California. The new facility complements TÜV Rheinland's existing facility in Pleasanton, California, bringing an end-to-end wireless testing service center to Silicon Valley.

Complete range of wireless communication technologies for different industries
TÜV Rheinland is one of the leading testing service providers and pioneers in the wireless communication technology industry. Experts from TÜV Rheinland were also involved in Bluetooth technology from the very beginning, and helped set-up the world's first WiFi laboratory.

Furthermore, TÜV Rheinland is a global leader when it comes to short-range wireless applications, such as WiFi, Bluetooth and ZigBee for smart home applications to ensure the corresponding devices comply with wireless communication protocols.

As a member of the LoRa Alliance, TÜV Rheinland also provides support for wireless standardization, testing, and product certification. Its experts operate in specialized laboratories for wireless communication technology and IoT products across the globe, ensuring that a testing service provider is always close to manufacturers and users around the world.

Thanks to its diverse expertise and resources, TÜV Rheinland distinguishes itself as a testing service provider as it can cover all wireless communication needs of a customer, regardless of its industry or geography, to comprehensively provide consulting services, test solutions, as well as market access analysis for new technologies and independent tests and certifications of existing ones.

The expansion of its existing testing facilities for wireless communication technologies is one of the future-oriented digitalization topics, like cyber security and autonomous driving, on which TÜV Rheinland will be placing a stronger focus in the future.

More information is available at www.tuv.com and on the TÜV Rheinland platform "Connected to the future" regarding the company's future-oriented topics at www.tuv.com/c2f.

About TÜV Rheinland:
TÜV Rheinland is a global leader in independent inspection services, founded 145 years ago. The group maintains a worldwide presence with 19,700 employees; annual turnover is more than EUR 1.9 billion. The independent experts stand for quality and safety for people, technology and the environment in nearly all aspects of life. TÜV Rheinland inspects technical equipment, products and services, oversees projects, and helps to shape processes and information security for companies. Its experts train people in a wide range of careers and industries. To this end, TÜV Rheinland employs a global network of approved labs, testing and education centres. Since 2006, TÜV Rheinland has been a member of the United Nations Global Compact to promote sustainability and combat corruption. Website: www.tuv.com