AM/FM Radio Antennas
GPS Antennas
Remote Keyless Entry Systems
Anti-Collision Radar Antennas
Satellite Radio Antennas
Wireless Phone AntennasCars are becoming ‘antenna farms’ with as many as 10 to 80 antennas mounted on them with the addition of new consumer-oriented services. Military vehicles and industrial fleet vehicles also continually add additional antennas for specialized communications, movement coordination and data gathering. While conventional antenna testing techniques are not effective due to new spatial coverage and frequency requirements, NSI-MI has developed solutions for automotive antenna testing applications. Our systems allow for the characterization of antennas for cell phones, GPS, satellite radio, collision avoidance, automated tolling, traffic monitoring, personal area networking, AM/FM radio, and more. NSI-MI has developed spherical near-field measurement systems for vehicular antenna testing applications in both indoor and outdoor environments.
NSI-MI has developed automotive antenna test solutions for every measurement configuration to include:
Far-Field
- Indoor and outdoor
- No post-processing required
- Coverage: 50 MHz–10 GHz
- For terrestrial communications
- Real-time data
Quasi Far-Field
- Indoor and outdoor
- No post-processing required
- Upgradeable to SNF
- Coverage: 200 MHz–10 GHz
- Accurate at all elevation angles
- Real-time data
Spherical Near-Field
- Indoor and outdoor
- Coverage: 400 MHz–18 GHz
- Accurate at all elevation angles
- Maximum flexibility
- Allows for frequency upgrades
- Gantry and arch designs
- Can be used as quasi-FF