EMC Testing Labs in Oulu – Accredited Facilities

TESTiLABS Oy

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TESTiLABS Oy is an independent Finnish test and certification house at Elektroniikkatie 17 in Oulu, the country's wireless engineering cluster, offering EMC, RF, SAR, over-the-air, safety, reliability and cybersecurity testing under one roof. The EMC facility is built around a 3 m test range semi-anechoic chamber with an interference-shielded control room, an automated environment comprising antenna scanning masts, a turntable, a tilted test table and an RF switching unit with the required filtering, all driven from a single commercial EMC test software package. A separate RF shielded room handles immunity work and doubles as a quiet environment for sensitive measurements, and a GTEM 750 cell provides radiated immunity at extra-high field strengths for special cases. Alongside the EMC chamber the company runs a dedicated SAR laboratory, over-the-air laboratories covering antenna pattern measurement, TRP and TIS, beamforming antenna test and 5G base station 3GPP EIRP and EIS, a hardware reliability laboratory for environmental, mechanical and physical failure analysis work, and an image quality and camera laboratory. Published EMC and RF standards span EN 55011, EN 55016, EN 55025, EN 55032, the EN 61000-3 and 61000-4 series, the EN 61000-6 generic standards, ETSI EN 301 489-1 and EN 301 908-1, EN 300 328, EN 300 440 and EN 301 893, FCC 47 CFR Part 15 Subparts B and C, IEC 60601-1-2 for medical electrical equipment, and the 3GPP TS 37.113, 37.114, 38.113 and 38.124 base station EMC specifications including Release 15 and Release 16 - a base-station EMC capability that is uncommon outside dedicated telecom labs. Pre-compliance testing is explicitly offered beyond the accredited scope for consumer, medical and industrial products, and custom measurement programmes are available. On the regulatory side the company provides CE certification, FCC and ISED certification, country-specific approvals across global markets, certification management, EMI/EMC design consulting, frequency band consulting and Bluetooth Qualification Consultant services.

Verkotan Oy

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Verkotan Oy is an Oulu-based Finnish test laboratory specialising in wireless device testing and global market approvals, with over 25 years of experience developing wireless performance test systems. It holds FINAS accreditation to SFS-EN ISO/IEC 17025 under laboratory code T287 across two Oulu sites, Elektroniikkatie 17 and Konekuja 8, with accredited activities covered by the ILAC MRA, and is separately certified to ISO 9001:2015 by Bureau Veritas. Since 9 January 2019 it has been a formally recognised testing laboratory for Canada, meaning ISED certification can run in parallel with FCC certification for the US market, and it is an FCC-recognised ISO/IEC 17025 laboratory for telecom, licensed RF and low-power transmitter products. Its accredited EMC and RF scope covers wireless devices and electrical equipment and accessories, and notably extends to 5G New Radio base station work including ETSI EN 301 908-24 radiated transmit power and OTA sensitivity and 3GPP active antenna system radiated conformance testing - Verkotan was among the first commercial laboratories to offer accredited 5G NR OTA certification testing for base stations. Beyond EMC the laboratory does SAR testing and RF exposure evaluation with a team carrying over 25 years of SAR experience, electromagnetic field measurements for RF exposure from 9 kHz to 30 MHz added under a 2018 FINAS extension, 2D and 3D antenna radiation pattern measurement from 400 MHz to 53 GHz for antennas up to 3 m and 150 kg, mobile device OTA testing to 5G, GNSS testing, IoT OTA measurement, FCC antenna gain measurement, satellite ground station antenna testing, product safety and cybersecurity testing. It is approved by Vodafone to execute OTA testing within Vodafone's internal terminal process, supplies tissue-simulating liquids, and sells AntView, its own antenna measurement analysis and visualisation tool. Because the test system software is developed in house, the team can modify test scripts on the fly and build new test cases within days.