ZA0060A Custom IoT Device Functional Test Solution

If you manufacture IoT devices, testing is essential to avoid product failures or recalls that could damage your brand. The golden radio solution is very cost effective, but the test coverage is very limited and you may miss critical defects. You will not know the true performance of the wireless connectivity of your device-under-test (DUT). On the other hand, you can use a comprehensive tester to perform parametric test, but this means that you are paying for capabilities which you don't need. Now you can confidently and affordably catch defects with the X8711A and ZA0060A test solutions.

ZA0060A Custom IoT Device Functional Test Solution

The Keysight ZA0060A is a custom solution based on the X8711A IoT device functional test solution. It is an over-the-air* signaling tester that enables you to test your IoT device’s transmitter and receiver easily and effectively. It is as simple as placing your device into a shield box and running the software test plans to get the transmitter and receiver test results in seconds!

With ZA0060A, you can now extend your test coverage for Bluetooth® Low Energy (BLE 5.0) and Zigbee® 3.0/Zigbee Pro, on top of the existing Bluetooth Low Energy 4.2 and WLAN 802.11b/g/n.

Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE 5.0)

Compared to its predecessor, Bluetooth Low Energy is twice as fast, has four times the range and can transfer eight times as much data. The ZA0060A is designed to support all the Bluetooth Low Energy physical layers (125 kbps, 500 kbps, 1 Mbps and 2 Mbps) with its ability to verify the device’s supported physical layers and run PER tests in ‘Connect Request’ mode for all the supported rates.

It first detects whether your IoT device is an active scanner or a connected device type and then configures PER tests according to your device. For example, the ZA0060A can be configured to run under ‘Active Scan’ mode for measuring only the advertising channels or be configured in ‘Connect Request’ mode to measure the composite PER of all the data channels.

This solution is also able to effectively test the device-under-test’s (DUT) transmitter by measuring and reporting the transmit power at each advertising channel (Channel 37, 38 and 39).

Zigbee 3.0 and Zigbee Pro

ZigBee is one of the most popular industry wireless mesh networking standard for connecting sensors, instrumentation and control systems. A typical ZigBee network has three classes of devices, a Coordinator, a Router and an End Device. The ZA0060A is able to test all these three classes of devices by making use of the standard functions of the Zigbee protocol message exchange to test the DUT with its actual firmware.

Since ZA0060A performs PER tests using the standard request/response message pair, it can be used to test any Zigbee compliant device independent of the application profiles of the device.

X8751A RF Shield Enclosure

The X8751A RF shield enclosure kit consists of:

• TC-5910D shield box
• 1x M591012B I/O module
• 1x TC-93023B antenna coupler
• 1x F59105A universal grid fixture (140(W) x 210 (D) x 11(H) mm)
• 1x RF cable, 0.9 m
• 1x SMA male to N male adapter
• 1x RF terminator N 50 Ohm

It provides:

• Reliable high RF shielding up to 6 Hz
• Shock absorber on lid