RIGOL IoT Development Solution

Whether it is optimizing power consumption, deploying sensor arrays, debugging serial buses or effectively integrating wireless technologies, RIGOL can provide solutions to accelerate IoT development. Our portfolio of time domain and frequency test solutions gives you advanced analysis capabilities at great value. At a fraction of the cost of a complete IoT testing solution, we deliver unprecedented customer value for IoT.

IoT Power Analysis

Gain a better understanding of how your IoT projects consume power and shorten battery life, starting with a baseline power analysis test mission. Know the nominal power usage, start-up energy requirements, and the power used by the required peripherals. Limit late-stage design changes to a project by iteratively testing power usage as you update your platform's software and hardware configurations.

Understanding Battery Life Characteristics with Electronic Loads

To further understand how your IoT device is draining power and reducing battery life, you need to understand how the device draws power during its nominal power consumption, boot cycle, and peripheral power consumption. With this information, you can use an electronic load to simulate a similar current draw scenario over an extended period of time. In this way, we can test how the battery will perform in a real-world use case as part of an IoT product. Ultimately, this provides more reliable data on battery demand to ensure your IoT products meet customer expectations between recharging or battery replacements.

Wireless Sensor Characterization Verification

Even the simplest sensors and communication protocols need to be characterized before IoT devices are sent to market. Characterize the error budget for verifying timing, radio power, and modulation settings in real-world environments before critical baseband data errors impact performance. Use the real-time bandwidth of a spectrum analyzer to analyze RF signals.

RF Antenna Test

The trade-off between antenna resonant range, responsiveness, and battery life is at the heart of many IoT development projects. Understand the impact of these decisions by analyzing how how the antenna is used affects the relationship between radio power and range. Antenna sets used for VSWR experiments were characterized using 2.4 GHz Bluetooth low energy signals. How to choose the best antenna for IoT application? We consider frequency response, VSWR and range as key characteristics that help us understand the suitability of an antenna and its impact on the overall power consumption of the device.