With increase in the manufacture base for mobile phones, tablet PC, PDAs and various life style products, testing & certification of these devices has become a necessity, says Kalyan Varma, VP Products, TUV Rheinland India

TUV Rheinland India, a subsidiary of TUV Rheinland Group, Germany, has added long range testing & certification activities for the Indian market. With the introduction of CMW 500 signalling unit and available infrastructure of its 10m anechoic chamber, TUV Rheinland India can now offer, complete testing & certification services for 2G, 3G, and 4G cellular etc. for various applications.

"We are extremely pleased that this is one of the unique services offered amongst our competitors and the first to be offered in TR - Group companies", said Thomas Fuhrmann, Managing Director, TUV Rheinland India. "With this facility & necessary accreditations like A2LA, ISO 17025, FCC & IC in place, we can actively cover complete short range & long range testing & certification activities from India, which covers the complete gambit of regulatory testing services."

India being one of the fastest growing markets in wireless industry globally, it is estimated that 20 billion connected wireless devices are in use for various sectors of Internet of Things (IoT), be it smart city, smart grid, home automation, automotive wireless, mobile communication, M2M (machine to machine communication), cyber security and so on. Also with India looking forward to make its manufacturing and industries sectors smarter, Industry 4.0 roadmap shall play a major role in automating and secure data exchange in manufacturing technologies.

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