The Internet of Things changes everything. Devices need to be more energy efficient, access points must support many more devices, wireless communication occurs on different cellular-IoT and wireless standards, network traffic is exponentially increasing, and the entire IoT system needs to be stress-tested and secured.

Our IoT test solutions span the network stack: from physical-layer signal integrity to application-layer load testing and security. We can help you build an Internet of Things that can scale.

Keysight IoT Innovation Challenge: Winners Announced

On September 21, six finalist teams of engineering students from around the world gathered in New York City for the final showdown. The Stanford University team emerged victorious, capturing both $50,000 USD and $50,000 USD worth of test equipment for their school. Three other winning teams were announced for specific categories.

"The student response we received was overwhelming, and we hope we played a small part in inspiring a next-generation of student innovators,…” ~ Cheryl Ajluni, Director of the IoT Innovation Challenge Program

Internet of Things Solution Space

How do your Things consume power under varied network conditions?

IoT devices have low duty cycles, conserving power in sleep mode most of the time. Battery drain and power efficiency are straightforward to test with the right equipment, but it's much harder to understand device power consumption in scenarios with poor or intermittent wireless connectivity.

We have industry-leading capability to perform cross-layer testing: emulate the network and the access point, emulate the channel, dial in impairments, and make high dynamic-range power measurements with a protocol-layer trigger.

Do your multi-mode Things need a simultaneous cellular and Wi-Fi connection?

User experience testing in network access devices requires performance evaluation under real-world conditions. Multi-radio devices and signal coexistence throw a wrench into an already challenging test environment. Are interference, antenna coupling, or other physical-layer problems limiting your device throughput?

Our IoT test platforms cover all of the cellular-IoT, Wi-Fi, and other IoT wireless standards — from network traffic emulation to physical signal generation. Measure the performance of your device across the protocol stack and test true end-to-end application to the bit-level behavior.

How many Things are in the network? How good is your security?

Gartner expects that 50% of IoT devices will come from companies that are less than 3 years old. Some of these devices may not be thoroughly tested and they may behave erratically. Or worse, they may be malicious agents designed to bring down your network.

How thoroughly have you tested your network reliability and traffic load-bearing capability? Can your security systems handle distributed denial of service attacks, exploits, malware, and fuzzing?

We can help you test your network infrastructure performance, validate your protocol compliance, and measure how your network handles massive traffic and coordinated cyber-attacks. Know your system capabilities and protect your network.

Mission-Critical IoT Applications

Mission-critical IoT devices and networks must work longer and harder, without fail, in harsh environments and sometimes in remote locations. The requirements are demanding. But, with billions of IoT devices around the world today and hundreds more coming online each second, the business opportunities are tremendous.

As a leader in test and measurement, we can help you understand the challenges you will face in each segment of the mission-critical IoT ecosystem — device, wireless communications, and network. Keysight's end-to-end test solutions are designed to allow you to overcome these challenges and succeed in developing robust and secure mission-critical devices and networks.

As The Leader In IoT Test Solutions, We Can Take On The Biggest Challenges

IoT Vertical Markets

Keysight Leadership In IoT Test Solutions

Visionary Innovation and Performance

“Keysight Technologies has ensured a best-in-class customer purchase experience for its test equipment to provide the right combination of hardware design and modular and automated calibration procedures, and to support new measurement challenges. [...]

“With its strong overall performance, Keysight Technologies has earned Frost & Sullivan’s 2016 Company of the Year Award for its contributions to the T&M market for IoT.”

Frost & Sullivan award, January 2017

  • “Several of our mission-critical medical devices were unable to transmit critical alarms. Ixia helped us improve reliability, accelerating needed FDA regulatory approvals.”

    VP of Engineering, Top-5 Medical Device Manufacturer

  • “RDA has always cooperated greatly with Keysight, the NB-IoT RF performance test solution provided by Keysight has accelerated our engineers finding problems and extremely enhanced our R&D progress. RDA will have deeper cooperation with Keysight in the future.”

    Jingming Wang, Vice President of Research & Development, RDA

  • “Keysight's ability to support Cat M1 and NB-IoT technology using Qualcomm Technologies' LTE IoT modems has resulted in IoT industry-leading design and test solutions. These solutions help customers bring reliable IoT enabled devices to market more quickly.”

    Giampaolo Tardioli, Vice President Network Access, Keysight

  • “We're very satisfied with the close cooperation from Keysight that enabled us to meet the market demands on early creation and support for testing of NB-IoT devices. This delivered a powerful test solution for evaluation of IoT device performance, such as transmitted output power and receiver sensitivity.”

    Klas Arvidsson, Bluetest Product Manager, OTA Solutions

  • “Our work with Keysight gives our customers assurance that our Monarch platform can fully support the NB-IoT and LTE-M 3GPP narrowband IoT technologies. It's important that testing solutions support both and our collaboration with Keysight enables this.”

    Danny Kedar, Vice President IoT Business Unit, Sequans

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