Bluetest AB (556597-4218) was formed as a spin-off company by Professor Per-Simon Kildal at the antenna group at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden in year 2000. The company has gradually introduced and verified the reverberation chamber as a method to accurately characterize wireless terminals with small antennas.
The technology offers many advantages in terms of measurement speed, chamber size, ease of use and cost compared to anechoic chambers. It is particularly well suited for the new wireless multiport MIMO technologies e.g. 802.11n, WiMAX and LTE wireless systems which rely on multi-path propagation to achieve high bit rates. The reverberation chamber was previously only used for EMC measurements.
The Bluetest standard chamber was developed during the first years and delivered to the first customer in 2002. The High Performance (HP) chamber was developed in 2006, and from 2006 – 2009 the sales grew by about 500%. In 2010 the new Reverberation Test System RTS6 and RTS9 series were developed and launched on the market. Bluetest is today the world-leading company that markets and sells complete reverberation chambers with software for passive and active characterization of wireless terminals with small antennas. Sales are still growing rapidly.
