How to Test PNT Device Performance

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Verifying PNT Performance Across Devices, Satellite Systems, and Lifecycle Stages

Positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) play a critical role across a wide range of location-aware technologies, from delivery and defense drones, and in-vehicle navigation to agricultural devices, fitness trackers, and other smart wearables. Ensuring reliable PNT performance — and the rapid delivery of high-quality products to market — requires dedicated test equipment and holistic testing to support bespoke requirements based on differing device dynamics, precision expectations and standards, signal availability, and more.

PNT testing of location-aware devices must span end-to-end test stages. This includes research and development to measure prototype value and guide receiver component selection as well as integration to measure component performance across design iterations. It must support product verification to validate standards conformance and final form factor performance along with field and production line checks to confirm devices work as expected before shipping.

Device Testing for PNT Performance

Ensuring PNT performance quality and reliability requires a high-performance test environment that generates realistic results from a multitude of scenarios. With its dedicated software-defined radio (SDR) architecture, the Keysight solution delivers precise signal modeling, broad capabilities, and ultra-low latency, minimizing uncertainty in your results. Additional record-and-playback technology assures the highest possible fidelity with its high dynamic range and highly stable architecture. And live-sky testing allows for final PNT performance validation using real-world signals.
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