Bluetest will exhibit at the CTIA 2013 show in Las Vegas, USA, May 21-23. The exhibition will be at the Sands Expo and Convention Center Las Vegas, NV. We will have the RTS60 and TTS11 in the booth for live LTE and WLAN measurements so take the opportunity to learn more about the reverberation test system and its capabilities to do fast and easy 2x2 MIMO measurements on wireless devices.
Read more about CTIA 2013 here: http://www.ctia2013.com/
Welcome to join us in booth #3055.
Bluetest is Platinum Sponsor of the 7th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2013, held in our hometown Gothenburg. The conference and exhibition will take place 8-12 April at Svenska Mässan (Swedish Exhibition & Congress Centre) and we are hoping that you want to join us for this week.
Bluetest have three contributions that will be presented at the conference:
You will find us in booth 13-14 and you are welcome to see us doing live LTE/MIMO measurements in the RTS60.
On November 9th Bluetest moved the head office to new premises.
CEO Kjell Olovsson says: "The new premises are built to our specification and meet our demand for more office space, lab space and space for assembly of our MIMO enabled Over-The-Air (OTA) test systems. This means we can increase our R&D and manufacturing capacity even further to meet the rapidly growing need for OTA measurement systems capable of handling MIMO measurements on LTE, WLAN and other wireless standards."
The new premises are located a few hundred meters from the old location in the IT-cluster Lindholmen Science Park in Gothenburg, Sweden. The new address is:
Bluetest AB
Lindholmsallén 10
SE-417 55 Göteborg
SWEDEN
Electronica is one of the leading trade fairs for the electronics industry. The trade fair will take place in Munich, Germany, 13-16 November at Messe München. Bluetest is co-exhibiting with our distributor Gigacomp and we will have an RTS60 in the booth together with the TTS11. Visitors will be able to see live demonstrations of active measurements such as LTE/MIMO.
Come and visit us in hall B3, booth 347!
For more information about Electronica 2012 click here.
Bluetest will attend at the 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (AP-S) in Chicago, IL, USA on July 8-14. Bluetest will together with Chalmers University hold a half day short course on July 8 called OTA Measurements in Reverberation Chamber. In addition to the short course Bluetest has two contributions to the conference together with Chalmers University that will be presented on Wednesday, July 12. Bluetest’s distributor MI Technologies will exhibit in booth # 406.
For more information about the symposium and technical program click here
For fiscal year 2012, Bluetest AB increased sales more than 100 percent – achieving the highest turnover in the history of the company. Reasons include high demand of solutions for Over-The-Air MIMO measurements of mobile phones and other wireless devices.
Kjell Olovsson, Bluetest AB CEO, says: “Our sales of MIMO enabled reverberation test systems used for mobile phones and mobile devices, currently the biggest market segment for Bluetest, has increased according to plan. In addition, we are meeting solid demand from our customers for the recently introduced W-LAN test system.”
The huge increase in sales during the year was possible thanks to higher demand, development of new products and recruitment of new staff. In Asia, a regional sales manager was recruited in order to expand the presence in this important region. Bluetest plans to continue increasing the staffing in both Sweden and Asia during this year.
Bluetest is now launching TTS11 (Throughput Test System 11), an instrument for IP throughput testing for the W-LAN 802.11a/b/g/n standards. To measure the throughput versus received power level is the best way to characterize a W-LAN device and to distinguish between good and bad transceiver design solutions. The instrument is an excellent tool for fast and accurate W-LAN throughput measurements on the IP layer. The developer can measure how the W-LAN chipset perform, how good the antennas are and what antenna positions are optimal. Using the TTS11 for IP throughput measurements will reflect the end-user experience of the device.
See the press release here
Bluetest is now launching the new WLAN IP throughput tester TTS11 (Throughput Test System 11), an instrument for IP throughput testing for the WLAN 802.11a/b/g/n standards. To measure the throughput versus received power level is the best way to characterize a WLAN device on the IP level. The TTS11 is an excellent tool to fast and accurately distinguish between a god and bad transceiver designs.
TTS11 is fully integrated with the Bluetest RTS software. Over-the-Air testing of WLAN devices is easy with the Bluetest TTS11 and the Bluetest RTS60. TTS11 as well as the RTS60 have support for MIMO measurements. It is also fully possible to use the TTS11 as a stand-alone instrument for conductive measurements.
For more information about the TTS11 click here or contact the sales representative in your region.
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 7, 2012
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that Bluetest AB now supports Agilent’s PXI wireless communications test set. The Bluetest RTS (Reverberation Test System) uses the Agilent PXT test set to evaluate LTE devices over the air.
OTA testing of LTE user equipment is essential to evaluate and prove performance prior to commercial deployment. Bluetest offers a range of fast and accurate solutions to these measurement challenges.
“The performance of our measurement systems relies heavily on the capability of the test equipment we support, so we are pleased to announce that, in working closely with Agilent, we now offer this complete solution to our customers,” said Kjell Olovsson, CEO of Bluetest. “Our compact RTS offers high-speed and high-performance OTA measurements that provide accurate and repeatable results.”
“We are delighted that Bluetest chose to integrate the Agilent PXT wireless communications test set,” said Andy Botka, vice president and general manager of Agilent’s Microwave and Communications Division. “This expands the application coverage of the PXT, and really helps our mutual customers to get quality products to market quickly.”
The Bluetest RTS is an accurate and cost-effective reverberation test system used to verify wireless devices and small antennas over the air. Bluetest’s unique patented technology enables the user to perform MIMO OTA tests in an isotropic multipath environment. Bluetest offers measurement options for all cellular standards and many other wireless communication protocols. Easy and fast maintenance, calibration and measurement setup give the user the opportunity to minimize time to market. Users can perform TRP, TIS and throughput tests faster with Bluetest RTS than with any other solution.
The Agilent PXT wireless communication test set represents a significant breakthrough in testing LTE user equipment. It incorporates flexible base station/network emulation and RF parametric tests into one integrated unit and extends Agilent’s unmatched portfolio of LTE test solutions for development and verification. The PXT hardware is configurable with a number of advanced test and analysis software options.
Additional information about Agilent’s wide range of LTE measurement and analysis solutions is available at www.agilent.com/find/LTE.
About Bluetest
Bluetest AB is the market leader in reverberation test system technology for over-the-air tests of wireless devices and small antennas. Bluetest is a rapidly growing company with a state-of-the-art test method for fast and accurate verification of antennas. Bluetest technology has been adopted by the largest mobile phone manufacturers, world-leading operators, antenna manufacturers and other vendors of wireless devices.
About Agilent Technologies
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) is the world’s premier measurement company and a technology leader in chemical analysis, life sciences, electronics and communications. The company’s 18,700 employees serve customers in more than 100 countries. Agilent had net revenues of $6.6 billion in fiscal 2011. Information about Agilent is available at www.agilent.com.
We need to expand our development organization in Gothenburg. We are looking for engineers that can help us to secure our position as the leading supplier of test solutions.
Are you interested? Read more and apply here (Swedish).
The reverberation chamber has been included in 3GPP’s technical specification that describes test procedure for measurements of the 3G/2G user equipment/mobile stations. The reverberation chamber has been included as an alternative test method for the OTA (Over-The-Air)SISO measurements.
The new technical specification can be found here
Master students Jacob Hidén Rudander and Ikram-E-Khuda have received the RFID Nordic scholarship Award 2011 for the Master project “RFID Measurements in Reverberation Chamber”, finalized in Dec 2010. The award amounts to SEK 20 000.
The jury motivation was: "Jacob Hidén Rudander and Ikram-E-Khuda have, by a novel use of available technology, proposed and verified a new way to characterize RFID tags through measurements. This new method has the potential to make RFID tag screenings and other types of measurements, faster and more realistic, and thus reducing the cost for such activities. This work is also believed to contribute to the general understanding of estimating the effects of [real world] multi-path wave propagation issues in UHF RFID systems.”
The project was performed at Chalmers and resulted in the scientific paper J. Hidén Rudander, Ikram-e-Khuda, P.-S. Kildal, C. Orlenius, "Measurements of RFID Tag Sensitivity in Reverberation Chamber", that now has been accepted for publication in IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters.
Bluetest will attend the ISAP 2011 conference in Jeju, South Korea together with our distributor Dymstec. Bluetest’s and Dymstec’s contribution will be presented in a poster presentation at the conference.
Prof. Per-Simon Kildal is an invited speaker at ISAP 2011 and he will give a presentation Wednesday 26th at 11.10-11.40 about Fast and Cost Effective OTA-MIMO Measurements in Reverberation Chamber. You can find his abstract and biography here http://www.isap2011.org/sub04_02.php
On Tuesday the 25th at 09.00-17.00 Christian Lötbäck and Prof. Per-Simon Kildal will lecture a short course with the title: Characterization of small antennas and wireless stations with MIMO: Simulation, anechoic chamber and reverberation chamber.
Elektroniktidningen in Sweden has published an article about Bluetest in the August issue of the magazine. The article describes the success Bluetest has had the past 10 years and how the market starts to accept the Reverberation Test System as a good method to verify small antennas and terminals with small antennas. The article is in Swedish and you can find it here.
Professor Per-Simon Kildal, the founder and main owner of Bluetest AB, has received the prestigeous Distinguished Achievements Award of IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (APS) for “For pioneering contributions to design and characterization methods for reflectors, feeds and small antennas utilizingsoft and hard surfaces, and reverberation chamber for Over-The-Air measurements”.
The Award is the highest annual award of the IEEE APS, which has 8500 members. It was given to him at the IEEE International Symposium of Antennas and Propagation in Spokane on July 6th, two days after his 60 years birthday. Bluetest congratulates Prof Kildal with the nice award and his birthday, and offered a celebration dinner for him and some co-workers the day after.
Michael Kwan has joined Bluetest as the Business Development Manager for Asia Pacific as of today. Michael has previously worked for Wandel & Goltermann, Acterna and for Willtek (Wireless Telecom Group) as the head for China sales. We are sure that his long experience in the Asian wireless business will help us to grow and expand the Bluetest business in the region. Michael will be located in Beijing but will spend a lot of his time travelling to help our distributors and customers in the region.
Michael can for the time being be reached on .
Kjell Olovsson who joined Bluetest as Vice President for sales and business development in September 2009 is today appointed CEO of Bluetest.
Kjell was born in Stockholm, Sweden, 1968 and started his career as an engineer at Ericsson. Previously he worked for Wireless Telecom Group (Boonton, NoiseCom, Willtek) as the world wide director for business development, located in Munich, Germany. He has a very long international experience in the testing field of wireless mobile devices, including all of the cellular technologies used today. Within the Wireless Telecom Group he has held a number of various management positions in business development and sales. As the Asian sales director he built up the business for the group in the region and was the key player in the introduction of test equipment for the TD-SCDMA standard in China.
Mats Andersson, who has been the CEO of Bluetest since September 2006 will join Kildal Antenn AB as a Business Consultant from September 2011. In Kildal Antenn AB, the company owned by Bluetest’s founder Prof. Per-Simon Kildal, Mats will continue to work with marketing, sales and business development for Bluetest but also with Prof. Kildal’s other companies Gapwaves AB and Elevenantenna AB to promote their sales and growth.
During Bluetest’s fiscal year 2010/2011 sales was more than doubled compared to the previous fiscal year. The successful sales increase has mainly been driven by the high demand for cost effective LTE MIMO OTA test solutions. Bluetest proven technology is now used by more than 50 customers worldwide including 14 of the largest mobile device manufacturers as well as 6 of the largest telecom operators in the world. Bluetest will continue to expand and invest to stay in the world leading position in the reverberation test system industry.
The demand for the Bluetest RTS60, which is the most cost-effective LTE MIMO OTA test system on the market, is growing rapidly. The introduction of LTE capable devices continues at a rapid pace as the demand for mobile broadband continues to grow. During the past months the number of installed systems for LTE/MIMO have increased to 20 worldwide. “The number of companies that today are using our LTE/MIMO solution for OTA testing confirms Bluetest’s role as the market leader for LTE/MIMO OTA test systems” says Mats Andersson CEO, he continues “We see an increasing demand of LTE/MIMO capable OTA solutions and feel confident that Bluetest has the solution that the market require”.
Bluetest is exhibiting and gives presentations at the 5th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation in Rome 11-15 April. Through presentations and exhibition, EuCAP provides the ideal place for the exchange of scientific and technical information, both at academic and industrial levels.
Bluetest will give two presentations:
We will also have a poster session on Thursday April 14:
For more information about EuCAP 2011 click here.
Come and meet us in booth 29!
The CTIA Wireless is the premier wireless event that brings together wireless and converged communications, wireless broadband, mobile web. International CTIA WIRELESS is where the wireless world meets each year for three days of intense business, learning and networking. Bluetest and MI Technologies will have an RTS60 in the booth for live measurements and demos. You will find us in booth 1327 and you are welcome to visit us to see some live tests! For more information about CTIA Wireless click here.
Elektronik 2011 is Sweden’s new electronic trade fair where you can meet local and national electronic suppliers. The microwave cluster Microwave Road has a meeting- and information sharing point in stand B04:02 in which Bluetest will exhibit together with other member companies. If you are visiting the fair these two days, come and meet us in stand B04:02! For more information about the exhibition click here.
If you want to work in an exciting and fast developing business environment read more and apply here!
Spirent Communications, a leader in testing wireless networks, services and devices, and Bluetest AB, a leading supplier of reverberation test systems, today announced their collaboration to advance Over-The-Air (OTA) test methods for mobile devices. Through their collective research and development, these two industry leaders will dramatically improve the time and reduce the cost required to deliver a superior user experience to mobile subscribers.
Read more in Spirent's press release here.
Bluetest continues its market expansion with a new distributor in India. AIMIL Ltd. is now distributing Bluetest’s products on the Indian market. AIMIL is a large organization with over 500 employees and have a nationwide sales network. Bluetest can together with AIMIL be closer to customers and provide a better service to them. Contact Sunil Grover, Vice President of AIMIL Ltd., for information or enquiries on the Indian market.
At the end of 2009 Bluetest released the LTE/MIMO OTA solution and today 16 customers worldwide are now using the active LTE/MIMO 2x2 solution to test and develop LTE User Equipment. This is a tremendous growth of users for Bluetest’s LTE/MIMO solution. Along with the rapid growth on the LTE device market the number is expected to increase in the future.
Bluetest has during the calendar year 2010 doubled its revenue. The major growth has been in the LTE/MIMO testing field where now more than 15 LTE/MIMO Reverberation Test Systems are installed and in daily use by mobile phone manufacturers and operators around the world. Bluetest has also during the year broken in to a number of new markets, which helped with the growth.
To further speed up the pace in the rapidly growing company Bluetest, based in Gothenburg, ALMI Invest Västsverige (ALMI Invest West Sweden) makes a second investment together with K-Svets Venture of 6 MSEK in the company.
Earlier this year Apple´s Steve Jobs talked about the widespread difficulties that the wireless industry suffers in verifying the performance of smartphones. Bluetest's patented solution is up to 10 times faster and much more cost-effective than traditional technologies.
The complete press-release can be found here (Swedish).
The RTS60 was introduced to the market at the end of August this year as the improved replacement for the HP700. The RTS60 has, among other features, improved accuracy and a number of new options like USB and/or Ethernet control of the DUT. One month after the introduction, Bluetest receives the first order for the new system from a customer that is designing highly advanced mobile terminals.
Bluetest is today launching a new generation of Reverberation Test Systems (RTS). The system includes a highly improved mode stirring concept that takes the performance for OTA measurements to a new level. The mode stirring concept means better accuracy, better repeatability and better stability on measurements. The systems are still very compact and can be placed in virtually any office space. Maintenance, service and calibration is as in the past easy, fast and cost effective
Microwave Journal publish an article about the reverberation test technology in the August issue of the magazine. The article describes the advantages of using a reverberation test system for MIMO antennas. For the full article is available here
Bluetest has been selected from over 100 wireless companies to be highlighted at the upcoming Telecom Council Innovation Showcase @ CTIA Enterprise & Applications in San Francisco October 6 - 8. Innovative companies were selected by judges from AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Nokia, NTT Docomol, Huawei, Qualcomm, Motorola and others based standard Telecom Council criteria – innovation, momentum, viability, and management. Telecom Council
Bluetest's technology uniquely solves test challenges of next generation wireless capability, such as MIMO, with a smaller footprint and often better accuracy than existing OTA chambers. The speed, high accuracy and small size of this solution not only reduces the total cost of ownership but also offers dramatic improvements in design productivity. Bluetest has over 40 customers worldwide including eleven of the largest mobile phone manufacturers and currently, industry leaders such as Vodafone, Orange and NTT DoCoMo are backing Bluetest's technology in new 3GPP MIMO OTA test standards.
Bluetest has during the last month received orders from 5 new customers on the LTE/MIMO TRP, TIS and Throughput OTA test solution. The Bluetest LTE/MIMO OTA solution was released at the end of 2009 and has since then been ordered/installed at customers in Asia, Europe and the USA. Feedback from customers that uses it on a daily basis is very positive, where they say that it is a very easy to use and fast solution, where it is possible to get reliable and repeatable throughput results in some minutes. For more information about the LTE/MIMO OTA solution contact Bluetest or your local sales contact.
Bluetest is increasing the range of tests that can be performed in the HP700 System with HSPA TPUT (throughput) Software. The software has been out for beta testing at a number of customer sites, all customers that have been testing the software are very satisfied. It is a fast and easy to use application, which gives repeatable throughput results in a few minutes. For more information about the TPUT software contact Bluetest or your local sales contact
Bluetest has received 8 orders during the last 4 months and already now set a new all time high for the fiscal year 2010 (2009-05-01 – 2010-04-30). This is the 4th year in a row of increasing sales. Several of the recent new orders have been with the new LTE MIMO option which allows high speed and repeatable active MIMO/LTE measurements in minutes for LTE enabled devices. The option includes new hardware and software modules for LTE TRP, TIS and Throughput measurements.
Today Bluetest received its 4th LTE MIMO order since this option was released 2010-02-05 and the demand for this solution is growing rapidly among Bluetest's existing customers as well as from many new customers.
The Bluetest newly developed algorithm for TIS measurements together with the Bluetest chamber technology enables the TIS measurements in only 3 minutes/channel. Together with the markets fastest TRP measurements, the Fast TIS option will dramatically increase the throughput in the test lab.
Today Bluetest received its first order, from a world-leading wireless company, of the new LTE MIMO option. This option for the Bluetest HP 700 chamber is the first of its kind to be able to do high speed and repeatable active MIMO/LTE measurements in minutes for LTE enabled devices. The option includes new switch hardware and software modules for LTE TRP, TIS and throughput measurements.
The realistic multi-path test method used in the HP700 makes is ideal for very fast SISO, SIMO, MISO and MIMO testing. The easy handling of the HP700 chamber and the MIMO/LTE option makes the testing faster and more effective than with other solutions on the market.
Bluetest is the Gold Sponsor of the 2010 International Workshop on Antenna Technology iWAT in Lisbon, Portugal, March 1 - 3, www.iwat2010.it.pt. Bluetest's founder Prof. Per-Simon Kildal will give a keynote presentation on "OTA measurements of wireless stations in reverberation chamber (RC) versus anechoic chamber (AC): from accuracy models to testing of MIMO systems". Bluetest will give a presentation on "Active Throughput Measurements for Complete MIMO WLAN Systems using Dual Reverberation Chamber Technique".
Please visit us at the Bluetest booth at iWAT 2010 and learn more about how you can significantly increase your OTA (Over-The-Air) SISO, MISO, SIMO and MIMO test capacity while at the same time reduce your costs.
Bluetest Received a new order for one HP700 System from Japan. The customer is one of the biggest player in the mobile handset area. With this order Bluetest has delivered 9 systems to Japan.
Bluetest has signed a distribution agreement with Welltest, a Finnish company in the test and measurement field. Welltest will take care about sales as well as customer support for our customers in Finland.
Contact: Vesa Kauppinen, see contact page for details.
The interest in using Bluetest chambers for very fast measurements of antenna efficiency, TRP, TIS and MIMO/antenna diversity gain is increasing rapidly worldwide. This was confirmed by 4 orders during the last 3 weeks of the Bluetest HP chamber to be installed in Sweden, Korea, Taiwan and Japan. Three of these orders were from new customers, while one was a repeated order from an already existing customer.
The new orders means that Bluetest now has 30 customers worldwide. Among the customers are 9 of the world's largest mobile phone manufacturers, 4 of the world´s largest operators, many developers of small antennas/laptops/wireless modules, 6 universities and many other companies active in the wireless industry.
An article about the Bluetest reverberation chamber technology has been published in the German magazine Elektroniknet. Click here to access the article (German only).
The Bluetest chambers are the fastest and most cost effective OTA test chambers for SISO and MIMO devices using small antennas. They are also the most easy to use and maintain. The sales growth over the last three years has been about 500%.
Kjell Olovsson has joined Bluetest as Vice President for sales and business development. He will use his long international experience in the RF testing field to expand the Bluetest business around the world.
Kjell was born in Stockholm, Sweden, 1968 and started his career as an engineer at Ericsson. Previously he worked for Wireless Telecom Group (Boonton, NoiseCom, Willtek) as the world wide director for business development, located in Munich, Germany. He has a very long international experience in the testing field of wireless mobile devices, including all of the cellular technologies used today. Within the Wireless Telecom Group he has held a number of various management positions in business development and sales. As the Asian sales director he built up the business for the group in the region and was the key player in the introduction of test equipment for the TD-SCDMA standard in China.
The sales of the Bluetest products is rapidly growing and in a few years we believe most companies working with wireless devices using small antennas will use this technology. Bluetest has 27 customers worldwide including 8 of the world's large mobile phone manufacturers, many developers of small antennas/laptops/wireless modules, 4 of the world´s large operators, and 5 universities.
During the spring, Almi Företagspartner set up a new venture capital company, Almi Invest AB. The aim is to improve access to venture capital for companies in their initial stages and expansion phases. Almi Invest is now making its first investment in Bluetest, a company which has developed a new method for testing wireless products. This investment is being made in partnership with QuieTek, a leading Taiwanese testing company. Together, Almi and QuieTek are investing a total of SEK 4 million. For more information, please see the ALMI Invest press release (Swedish only).
Bluetest has recieved two orders for Bluetest HP chambers in June from our Japanese distributor TOYO. These are our sixth and seventh orders from Japan in little over a year. The Japanese market is usually difficult to break into unless you have a product and distributor of high quality. Seven orders of a product using a new technology, in little over a year, is solid proof that Bluetest has both.
Bluetest's last fiscal year resulted in a new sales record and the sales for this fiscal year has started better than last year. In a few years we believe most companies developing/evaluating wireless products with small antennas will use Bluetest´s measurement technology for characterizing their performance, since it is: 1) easy to use, 2) very fast, 3) compact, and 4) cost effective, compared to existing test technologies. In addition, it is the only test technology that can evaluate the performance in a realistic environment with fading, and this unique property enables direct tests of advanced smart antenna functions such as antenna diversity gain and MIMO.
“GIGACOMP is one of the leading RF specialists in Central Europe and we are very happy to add GIGACOMP as a Bluetest distributor for Germany, Switzerland, and Austria" says Mats Andersson, CEO of Bluetest AB.
"The revolutionary Bluetest technology will give our customers a significant cost and time to market advantage. The performance of wireless devices with small single and/or multiple (MIMO and/or diversity) antennas can be evaluated in minutes in a very compact, cost effective, and easy to use system." says Dr. Bernd Fleischmann, Managing Director of GIGACOMP GmbH.
The Bluetest reverberation chamber technology is used to measure the total RF performance of cell phones and other wireless devices. In the past two years the sales of the Bluetest products have accelerated and in a few years we believe most companies working with products using small antennas will use this technology. The capabilities offered by the Bluetest technology include extremely fast measurements of total radiated power (TRP) and total isotropic sensitivity (TIS). Additionally, the Bluetest chambers are the only commercially available test chambers that allow direct very fast passive and active testing of antenna diversity gain and MIMO capacity, both of which are key technologies for new (e.g. HSPA, 802.11n) and future (WiMAX, LTE) wireless broadband systems. To support the sales and aftersales worldwide Bluetest has since 2007 signed distribution agreements for Korea, Japan, Taiwan, China, ASEAN, North America, Italy, United Kingdom, India and now also for Germany, Switzerland and Austria. For the rest of the world Bluetest handles the sales and aftersales.
Bluetest sales are accelerating despite the economic turmoil on the world markets. The turnover for the fiscal year May 2008 - April 2009 has increased by 177% compared to the previous year and by about 450% compared to two years ago.
An important factor for the increased sales worldwide is that Bluetest has since 2007 signed distribution agreements for Korea, Japan, Taiwan, China, ASEAN, North America, Italy, United Kingdom and India. We expect the sales to continue to increase as the distributors are expanding their marketing efforts of the Bluetest products. During 2009 we plan to add new distributors in Europe and South America.
Bluetest's US distributor MI Technologies recieved today a Bluetest HP chamber order from a large US based wireless company. This is MI Technologies first Bluetest order in the US and it will be Bluetest chamber no. 8 to be installed in North-America. The interest in the Bluetest reverberation chamber technology has accelerated during the last year as more and more companies have become aware of the significant cost and time savings that can be made in using this technology for extremely fast OTA measurements of devices with small single or multiple antenna configurations.
Bluetest's customers comprise 8 of the world's large mobile phone manufacturers, many developers of small antennas/laptops/wireless modules, 3 of the world´s largest operators, 5 universities, 3 test institutes, and many other wireless companies. The customers can be found in Asia, Europe, North and South America.
The 22nd annual meeting of SAMS (Swedish Antenna Measurement Society) will take place at Lindholmen Science Park May 14th. There will be technical presentations before lunch, followed by visits to Bluetest AB and some other places of interest after lunch.
For those interested in giving a presentation or attending SAMS 2009, please follow the instructions in the SAMS 2009 invitation that can be found here.
The Bluetest reverberation chamber technology is used to measure the total RF performance of wireless devices with small antennas. In the past two years the sales of Bluetest products have accelerated and in a few years we believe most companies working with products using small antennas will use this technology. This workshop will explain why reverberation chambers are to be preferred to anechoic chambers. It will give detailed information of how antenna diversity gain and MIMO capacity, both of which are key technologies for new (e.g. HSPA, 802.11n) and future (WiMAX, LTE) wireless broadband systems, can be tested in minutes with high repeatability. The workshop will also describe how traditional parameters like antenna efficiency, TRP and TIS measurements can be measured with high accuracy in a very small and cost effective test chamber and give comparison to measurements of the same wireless devices in large CTIA approved anechoic chambers.
For info on attending the free workshop, see the conference website.
You are also very welcome to visit Bluetest's booth #13 at the EuCAP 2009 exhibition.
"China is the fastest growing economy in the world with many world-leading wireless companies. Bluetest is very happy to add Corad Technology Limited, with its large network of offices and sales channels across China covering manufacturing, academic and research organizations in the area of Wireless & Microwave Communication, to its distributors" says Mats Andersson, CEO of Bluetest AB.
Test & Measurement (T&M) Operation of Corad Technology Limited is a customer oriented distributor, established since 1980 with a focus on customer needs, service satisfaction, and product quality. Corad T&M is not only a team of engineers with the skill of business development, sales & marketing, service & support, but also a team that listen to customers attentively, and determined to deliver the best test & measurement solutions. "The Bluetest test chambers with their unique ability to do direct very fast MIMO and antenna diversity measurements will provide significant time savings for our customers working with advanced multi-antenna solutions for e.g. WiMAX, LTE and TD-LTE" says Simon Kwok, General Manager of T&M Operation, Corad Technology Ltd.
The Bluetest reverberation chamber technology is used to measure the total RF performance of wireless devices with small antennas. In the past two years the sales of Bluetest products have accelerated and in a few years we believe most companies working with products using small antennas will use this technology. The Bluetest chambers are the only commercially available test chambers that allow direct testing of antenna diversity gain and MIMO capacity, both of which are key technologies for new (e.g. HSPA, 802.11n) and future (WiMAX, LTE) wireless broadband systems. The capabilities offered by this technology also include extremely fast measurements of antenna efficiency, total radiated power (TRP) and total isotropic sensitivity (TIS). All of this capability is bundled into a very compact, cost effective, and easy to use system.
Bluetest´s Taiwanese distributor QuieTek has recieved an order for a Bluetest High Performance (HP) chamber from Micro-Star International (MSI) in Taiwan. David Cheng, Sales Manager at QuieTek says "- QuieTek and Bluetest are very happy that MSI selected the Bluetest HP chamber instead of a test chamber using anechoic chamber technology. One of the key reasons is the possibility of very fast measurements of wireless devices with a size of up to 0.8m in the relatively small Bluetest HP chamber".
The Bluetest chambers are the only commercially available reverberation chambers with software for measuring antenna efficiency, TIS (Total Isotropic Sensitivity), TRP (Total Radiated Power), antenna diversity gain and MIMO capacity of wireless devices with small antennas, e.g. mobile phones, laptops, USB modems, Bluetooth devices, etc. Antenna efficiency, TRP/channel, antenna diversity gain and MIMO capacity can be measured in only one minute. TIS for GSM and WCDMA in about 10 minutes/channel.
Bluetest has among its customers 8 of the world's large mobile phone manufacturers, many developers of small antennas/laptops/wireless modules, 2 of the world´s largest operators, 5 universities, 2 test institutes, and some other wireless companies. The customers can be found in Asia, Europe, North and South America.
Bluetest´s Japanese distributor TOYO Corporation showcased the Bluetest HP chamber at the Microwave Show MWE 2008 in Yokohama November 26 - 28, 2008. As a result several articles were published. Two of the leading industrial newspapers in Japan, The Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun (Dec 16) and The Nikkei Sangyo Shimbun (Dec 12) published articles with a photo and description of some of the features and advantages of the Bluetest HP chambers. Some of the articles in Japanese can be found via the following links:
http://www.keisoku-gb.com/new/nr08_1218.htm
http://release.nikkei.co.jp/detail.cfm?relID=207588&lindID=1
http://www.techworld.jp/channels/network/102822/
http://www.asahi.com/digital/nikkanko/NKK200812160020.html
http://news.privatejapan.com/?s=%E7%A9%8D%E5%88%86
http://www.ssa-online.org/cgi-bin/news/news.cgi?page=detail&key=11564252
TOYO Corporation has been very successful in selling Bluetest chambers during 2008 to several worldleading Japanese wireless companies and Bluetest and TOYO Corporation look forward to even more sales during 2009.
“North America is a very important market for Bluetest. Many of the world's leading wireless companies have their headquarters and/or development centers in North-America. Bluetest is very happy to add MI Technologies, well known worldwide for its high quality and cost effective test and measurement products, to its list of distributors" says Mats Andersson, CEO of Bluetest AB.
MI Technologies has for over 50 years delivered advanced antenna test technology to the communication industry, the addition of the Bluetest products to its offerings provides MI Technologies the ability to offer a complete suite of test systems to characterize antenna pattern performance as well as antenna efficiency measurements and throughput measurements. "MI technologies is the leading supplier of advanced test systems for all types of antennas, and the speed and accuracy of the Bluetest solution will offer extraordinary value to our customers. With the revolutionary products from Bluetest we will be able to supply the latest test technology for evaluation of all wireless products." says Jeff Fordham, VP Marketing, of MI Technologies.
The Bluetest reverberation chamber technology is used to measure the total RF performance of cell phones and other wireless devices. In the past two years the sales of the Bluetest products have accelerated and in a few years we believe most companies working with products using small antennas will use this technology. The capabilities offered by this technology include extremely fast measurements of total radiated power (TRP) and total isotropic sensitivity (TIS). Additionally, the Bluetest chambers are the only commercially available test chambers that allow direct testing of antenna diversity gain and MIMO capacity, both of which are key technologies for new (e.g. HSPA, 802.11n) and future (WiMAX, LTE) wireless broadband systems. All of this capability is bundled into a very compact, cost effective, and easy to use system. To support the sales and aftersales worldwide Bluetest has since 2007 signed distribution agreements for Korea, Japan, Taiwan, China, ASEAN and now also for North America, Italy, United Kingdom and India. For the rest of the world Bluetest handles the sales and aftersales.
See also press release at MI Technologies' website.
During the ISAP 2008 conference, Bluetest's Taiwanese distributor QuieTek created a lot of interest by showing very fast live TRP and TIS tests in the Bluetest High Performance reverberation chamber. Many of the visitors to the exhibition expressed their appreciation of seeing TRP of mobile phones measured in only one minute per channel.
David Cheng who is responsible for the Sales of the Bluetest chamber in Taiwan and China says "-This is a completely new technology for most Taiwanese companies and the interest in the technology is very big. At QuieTek we have made extensive benchmarking between our own CTIA approved anechoic chamber and the Bluetest HP chamber and found the agreement for TRP and TIS very good". A paper on "Comparison of Measurement Accuracy and Time of TRP and TIS in Reverberation and Anechoic Chambers" written by QuieTek and Bluetest, was presented by QuieTek's Kevin Chen on Wednesday 29 October.
Professor Per-Simon Kildal will give a half day course on measurements in reverberation chambers at ISAP 2008 in Taipei, Tuesday 28 October. The title of the course is "Testing Wireless Devices in Reverberation Chamber". The course material is based on several years published and unpublished material related to measurements in the small Bluetest reverberation chambers as well as larger reverberation chambers.
Bluetest sales are accelerating despite the economic turmoil on the world markets. Today Bluetest recieved its seventh order in the new fiscal year, which started May 1st 2008. This means that already now, less than six months into the fiscal year, a new sales record is set.
The unique and patented Bluetest technology is rapidly taking market shares worldwide. When the chamber from this order has been installed it will be the 30th Bluetest installation.
Bluetest will give a full day seminar at the National University of Singapore, Wednesday 22 October, on how to use reverberation chambers for very fast measurements of wireless devices with small antennas. Speaker is Bluetest's CEO Mats Andersson.
The title of the seminar is "Characterizing Wireless Devices with Small Antennas in Reverberation Chambers". The seminar will focus on 1) The importance of small antennas, 2) Important parameters of small antennas and 3) Measurement techniques for small antennas. The seminar material is based on several years of work performed by Bluetest and Prof. Per-Simon Kildal's antenna group at Chalmers University of Technology. For info on attending the course, click here to see the invitation.
During the last month Bluetest has recieved four new High Performance (HP) chamber orders. Three of the orders are from customers in Asia and one from a customer in Europe. All of the orders include software for very fast measurements of diversity gain and and MIMO capacity.
It is difficult and timeconsuming to find the best small multi-antenna configuration for optimum diversity gain or optimum MIMO capacity in a fading environment with traditional antenna measurement methods, i.e. in anechoic chambers. Of the two alternatives for making direct measurements, i.e. drive tests and the reverberation chamber, the reverberation chamber offers many advantages. It creates an artificial, fully controlled and repeatable Rayleigh environment in which measurements are simple, fast and cost effective. The Bluetest chambers are the only commercially available antenna test chambers for direct tests of antenna diversity gain and MIMO capacity.
Bluetest is happy to announce its third order from Japan for High Performance (HP) reverberation chamber no. 13 and its fourth HP chamber order in Europe, i.e. for HP chamber no 14. These chambers will be Bluetest chambers no. 27 and 28 to be installed worldwide. During 2008 the interest from wireless companies all over the world in Bluetest´s unique technology has increased significantly. The main reasons are the 1) very fast and accurate measurements, 2) ease of use and 3) small size and cost of the chambers.
Bluetest has among its customers 6 of the world's large mobile phone manufacturers, 2 of the world´s largest operators, many developers of small antennas, 5 universities, 2 test institutes, and many other wireless companies. The customers so far can be found in Europe (11), North America (3), South America (1), and Asia (8).
After many rumors on the internet about a possible problem with iPhone 3G´s antenna affecting its ability to connect to the 3G network, the Swedish paper Göteborgsposten asked if Bluetest could make some tests to verify or disprove this rumor for an iPhone belonging to a journalist at Göteborgsposten. The results of the tests of the iPhone 3G, as well as those of a Nokia N73 and Sony Ericsson P1 can be found here.
Bluetest is happy to announce its second order from Japan for High Performance reverberation chamber no. 12. This will be the 26th Bluetest chamber to be installed worldwide.
Bluetest has among its customers 5 of the world's large mobile phone manufacturers, 2 of the world´s largest operators, many developers of small antennas, 5 universities, 2 test institutes, and some other wireless companies. The customers can be found in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China, Sweden, Spain, France, UK, USA, Canada and Brazil.
Business Region Göteborg's newsletter gives an overview of Bluetest's revolutionary technology which allows companies working with wireless devices using small antennas to reduce their test time from several days using traditonal technology to hours using the Bluetest chambers. It also describes how Bluetest plan to increase its sales from about 1 chamber per month today to about 3 chambers per month one year from now. Keys to this expansion are CTIA approval of measurements in reverberation chambers, active marketing at wireless and antenna conferences worldwide and participation in the Swedish research program Chase. The complete newsletter (in Swedish) can be found here.
Professor Per-Simon Kildal and Bluetest will give a half day course at IEEE AP-S 2008 in San Diego, 6 of July 2008. The title of the course is "Testing Wireless Devices in Reverb Chamber". The course material is based on several years published and unpublished material related to measurements in the small Bluetest reverberation chambers as well as larger reverberation chambers.
Following the course there will be an "Advanced Workshop on Testing Wireless Devices in Reverb Chamber" for specialists with speakers from Chalmers University, NIST, Bluetest, SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden and CTIA.
Bluetest´s distributor for the ASEAN countries, ST Electronics (Info-Comm Systems), will demonstrate the capabilities of Bluetest´s reverberation chambers in the Swedish Pavilion (booth #3H2-03) at CommunicAsia 2008 in Singapore, June 17-20.
Learn more about making direct measurements of diversity gain and MIMO capacity in only one minute using the Bluetest High Performance (HP) reverberation chamber. Antenna efficiency and TRP per channel can also be measured in only one minute. TIS measurements take about 10 minutes/channel for GSM and WCDMA.
Bluetest is releasing new software for Bluetooth TRP and TIS measurements. In the same measurement sequence, it is possible to obtain both the TRP and TIS value of a Bluetooth device in less than 3 minutes/channel.
The Bluetest chamber is the only commercially available reverberation chamber with software for measuring antenna efficiency, TIS (Total Isotropic Sensitivity), TRP (Total Radiated Power), diversity gain and MIMO capacity. Besides TRP and TIS software for Bluetooth, Bluetest can also deliver TRP and TIS software for GSM, WCDMA, CDMA2000, GPRS/EDGE and HSPA.
Contact Bluetest for more information on price and available instrument drivers.
At the 2008 International Workshop on Antenna Technology iWAT in Chiba, Japan, Bluetest´s CEO Mats Andersson presented the invited paper "Three Fast Ways of Measuring Receiver Sensitivity in a Reverberation Chamber" by Mats Andersson, Charlie Orlenius, and Per-Simon Kildal.
The traditional way of evaluating receiver sensitivity is to measure the Total Isotropic Sensitivity (TIS) in an anechoic environment. However, very few wireless terminals with small antennas are used in an anechoic environment. The iWAT paper describes how to measure TIS, AFS and relative reciever sensitivity in the Bluetest chambers. TIS can be measured in about 10 minutes in the reverberation chamber which is much faster than measurements in anechoic chambers. The fastest method is the relative reciever sensitivity which can be measured in one minute in the Bluetest High Performance chamber.
Bluetest is happy to announce an order for High Performance chamber no. 10. It is also the first order to Taiwan. Bluetest has previously delivered reverberation chambers to several Asian countries which have companies focused on wireless devices with small antennas, among them Korea, Japan, China, and now also Taiwan.
In their latest issue, Microwave Engineering Europe (MWEE) publishes an article highlighting the benefits of the reverberation chamber. The article is authored by Bluetest CEO Mats Andersson and gives a thorough background to measurements of devices with integrated small antennas.
See a web version of the January/February issue of MWEE here, the reverberation chamber article is found on page 24.
With the delivery of HP chamber no. 8 in December 2007 Bluetest has delivered TRP and TIS software for GPRS/EDGE and HSPA. The TRP measurements take one minute/channel with an accuracy of better than 0.5 dB standard deviation, and TIS measurements take about 10 minutes/channel.
Software for measuring GSM, WCDMA and CDMA2000 with the same speed in the HP chamber is available since earlier. Software for Bluetooth measurements is planned to be ready in March 2008.
Bluetest is happy to announce its first order to Japan for High Performance reverberation chamber no. 9. In connection with the delivery of the chamber in early March 2008, Bluetest´s Japanese distributor Toyo Corporation will arrange a seminar to introduce the Bluetest products to wireless companies in Japan.
The seminar will be held March 10th in Tokyo, and Bluetest CEO Mats Andersson will together with manufacturing director Magnus Franzén participate and give talks about why reverberation chambers are to be preferred for measurements of wireless devices with small antennas, how they work and show comparisons between tests in reverberation chambers and CTIA approved anechoic chambers. They will also describe the very fast and unique diversity, MIMO and throughput tests with multi-antenna configurations that can only be performed in reverberation chambers.
Taiwan has many of the world leading companies developing and manufacturing wireless devices with small antennas. "Bluetest is very happy to add QuieTek, which is a well known Taiwanese EMC and wireless certification lab with a large customer base in Taiwan and China, to its list of Asian distributors" says Mats Andersson, CEO of Bluetest AB.
"For the last years there has been an increasing demand from many of our customers in both Taiwan and China for a small, fast and cost effective test chamber for wireless devices with small antennas. With the products from Bluetest we will be able to address this pent-up demand. That Bluetest in addition is the only commercially available test chamber for direct diversity and MIMO tests is an added bonus of particular importance for Taiwan that has about 90 % of the WLAN market" says Gene Chang, General Manager, QuieTek.
The Bluetest products will be introduced in Taiwan and China at three WiMAX seminars arranged by QuieTek. The first seminar will take place in Taipei the 9th of January, and the second and third in the ShenZhen and SuZhou provinces in China the 16th and 18th of January. Mats Andersson will attend the seminar in Taipei and there give a talk entitled "Bluetest Reverberation Chambers - A Paradigm Shift in Measuring Wireless Devices with Small Antennas Resulting in up to 100 Times Faster Diversity and MIMO Characterization".
The Swedish paper Elektronik i Norden publish an overview article of why reverberation chambers are to be preferred for measurements of mobile phone antennas, as well as for all wireless devices with small antennas. The article in Swedish is available in Elektronik i Norden no. 17 at page 29. A translation into English can be found here.
