Element’s Over-the-Air (OTA) testing services ensure your wireless products comply with operator/carrier requirements and international standards, allowing the performance of your wireless devices to be verified before your product hits the market.
OTA testing measures the antenna radiated performance and signal path in a simulated environment to ensure devices perform as intended on the live network by end users. The OTA evaluation of Total Radiated Power (TRP), Total Isotropic Sensitivity (TIS) and Intermediate Channel Sensitivity are key metrics to optimize performance prior to production and market release.
Element provides OTA testing for your commercial, industrial, military products, and consumer products such as smartphones, laptops, tablets, routers, and IoT devices. Our state-of-the-art OTA test chambers in the US cover 400MHz to 7.125GHz as well as the 28GHz and 38 GHz mm-Wave frequencies.
Cellular wireless technologies supported
- 5G NR SA, 5G NR NSA
- 5G FR1, 5G FR2
- LTE (Category M, NB, and 1+), LTE Carrier Aggregation
- A-GNSS (A-GPS, A-GLONASS, A-GALILEO, L1+L5)
- IEEE 802.11 a, b, g, n, ac
- Bluetooth Classical
- ZigBee (802.15.4), ISM, SRD, UHF RFID, MedRadio- MICS bands
- Legacy 3G
Our OTA testing services
- Transmit Antenna Performance:
- Total Radiated Power (TRP)
- Effective Isotropic Radiated Power (EIRP)
- Receiver Antenna Performance:
- Total Isotropic Sensitivity (TIS)
- Effective Isotropic Sensitivity (EIS)
- MIMO Antenna Performance:
- MIMO Average Radiated SIR Sensitivity (MARSS)
- Total Radiated Multi-Antenna Sensitivity (TRMS)
- 5G FR2 conformance and acceptance
- Coexistence / Desensitization Measurements
- Engineering & Custom testing solutions
- Passive Antenna Testing (Gain, Efficiency, and Directivity)
PTCRB and CTIA certification
Our chambers and systems support cellular testing capabilities for SISO and MIMO per the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (CTIA) family of test plans for Mobile Station Over-the-Air (OTA) performance, including the RF Performance Evaluation of Wi-Fi Mobile Converged Devices.
Carrier certification
We provide services for a range of Operators worldwide. Including but not limited to Verizon Wireless (VZW), AT&T, and US Cellular.
Mobile Device OTA testing
Element's Over-the-Air test program is designed for testing various devices across a wide range of physical models of the human body, also known as phantoms. This includes the human head, hands designed to hold a variety of different form factors (PDA, wide PDA, monoblock, and clam shell), and forearms, with chest and ankle phantoms on the horizon.
Coordinated approach to OTA testing
Our team includes experts in Global Market Access (GMA) and related services such as Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) and Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) testing, making us a single source provider for all of your product compliance needs. Our labs are strategically located in the US, UK, and South Korea, making Element your ideal partner to provide OTA in conjunction with any of our additional testing services when you need it. Our US locations include Columbia MD, just outside the FCC certification and testing laboratory, San Jose, CA, and Brooklyn Park, MN.
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