News from the December 2006 AutoEMC Newsletter

December 6th, 2006

A Generic Automotive EMC Test Standard
A generic automotive EMC test standard was proposed at the Automotive EMC 2006 Conference, this was an attempt to find a “middle way” through the plethora of vehicle manufacturer standards. Although not 100% complete the Automotive EMC have decided to issue the specification in its current draft form to garner further input from the EMC test industry after we received a lot of requests for this from tier 1 suppliers. Further details are available via a short article by the specification author.

EU Commission Directive on Harmonization of Short Range Radio Devices Radio Spectrum
These technologies are being proposed for several vehicle uses, both vehicle-to-roadside systems (tolling and information exchange) and vehicle-to-vehicle networks (active collision avoidance and traffic information). Hence this directive could be the basis for some future pan-European road tolling or traffic management systems.

US EMC Test Club
After last months item about the UK EMC club scheme, we were contacted about a similar scheme that has recently been resurrected in the USA.

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