Wi-SUN Alliance – new testing and certification partners

ELDORADO Institute, QualityLogic and WISeKey are new Wi-SUN Alliance product testing and certification partners.

The Campinas, Brazil based ELDORADO Institute is opening the first laboratory in the Americas for testing and certification of products designed for Wi-SUN FAN, the Alliance’s Field Area Network specification providing a communications infrastructure for large-scale outdoor networks for smart cities, smart utilities and other IoT rollouts

Adoption of the technology is growing in the region and the new laboratory, more than two years in development, will make its service available to companies in Brazil and Latin America, but also open to testing products from other countries.

US quality assurance specialist QualityLogic, a leader in creating test tools for smart utility and smart city certification programmes, has developed the official Wi-SUN FAN v1.0 test bed controller (TBC), a conformance and interoperability testing environment making it straightforward for companies to test and verify their Wi-SUN FAN compliant products.

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QualityLogic will provide the TBC, as well technical support, maintenance, training and turnkey Wi-SUN FAN v1.0 test bed services.

Switzerland headquartered WISeKey, a leader in digital identity management and security solutions joins Wi-SUN Alliance to provide certificate authority services to its members. The company will become a third-party supplier of certificates for Wi-SUN FAN products ensuring that devices that connect to a Wi-SUN FAN are fully authenticated.

“The Wi-SUN Alliance ecosystem continues to grow, delivering all aspects needed by organisations as they deploy large-scale IoT networks,” says President and CEO, Phil Beecher.

“With new partners on board and with the support of our members, we are putting in place the building blocks to ensure utilities, cities and services providers have everything they need to support the growth and evolution of their IoT networks.”

Alongside these new partnerships, the Alliance has announced recording a record year for Wi-SUN FAN product certification driven by a growing and active ecosystem of 300+ members in 46 countries.

In the last 12 months, the number of Wi-SUN FAN certified products also has grown with more than 60 products now available worldwide, an increase of 40% in the last year.

Additional milestones recorded were a strengthening of the Wi-SUN Alliance relationship with the DLMS User Association, simplifying the testing and certification of products that implement DLMS/COSEM over Wi-SUN FAN.

The Alliance also entered an agreement with the Open Mobile Association (OMA), which has added support for Wi-SUN FAN in Lightweight M2M (LwM2M), the Associations’ low power device management protocol.