IoTAS — Global Wireless Testing

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IoTAS offers global testing solutions to the wireless community. The company is a specialist field testing company offering professional outsourcing solutions for 3GPP, wireless network testing and other wireless technologies.

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ACCREDITATIONS, MEMBERSHIPS & CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

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ACCREDITATIONS, MEMBERSHIPS & CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
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Established in 2003, IoTAS has gained an enviable reputation for quality and professionalism. The company’s executive team has extensive experience working for leading manufacturers and test houses with hands-on knowledge in handset design, approvals management and field testing.

IoTAS is a founder member of the Global Certification Forum (GCF) Ltd and is an active participant in the GCF Field-Trial Agreement Group (FTAG) meetings; contributing to the ongoing global requirements for the certification of 3GPP based wireless terminals. IoTAS is committed to being a recognised leader in live network field-testing by working with its customers and industry forums to provide solutions that meet customer needs, objectives, and certification requirements. IoTAS is also an associated member of Cambridge Wireless.

IoTAS offers a global field-testing solution (2G/3G/4G/5G/CAT-M1/NB-IoT/RTT/RedCap/IMS) with local resource across Europe, APAC, LATAM as well as the USA and Canada, delivering bespoke field-testing solutions to suit the needs of our customers, from GCF field testing to pre and post global launch testing in specific geographic locations around the world. IoTAS has completed live network testing on all categories of Mobile Phones, Data Cards, Tablets, E-readers and bespoke devices for Device Manufacturers, Protocol Stack Suppliers and Network Operators. IoTAS Australia also completes pre-network testing and network testing on all pre-approved devices for the network operator Telstra.

With years of experience in the 3GPP testing arena IoTAS is also able to offer consultancy, support and program management for customers seeking conformance and regulatory services.

IoTAS is an equal opportunity, ethical, anti-slavery employer. We adhere to ‘legal working practices’ and provide our customers with quality-oriented results. Accordingly, the company is a UKAS accredited testing laboratory to the international standard ISO/IEC 17025 (Accreditation No. 7619) that demonstrates technical competence and the ability to produce precise and accurate test data.

UKAS Accredited ISO 17025 Testing Laboratory (Accreditation No. 7619)

United Kingdom Accreditation Service is the sole national accreditation body recognised by the British government to assess the competence of organisations that provide certification, testing, inspection, and calibration services.

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Accreditation

GCF Recognised Test Organisation
Accreditation

The Global Certification Forum (GCF) was founded in 1999, in response to changes in the regulatory environment in Europe, to give operators confidence in the interworking of new mobile devices at a time of rapid technological development and market growth.

Recognised Test Organisations (RTOs) are GCF Members that have demonstrated they possess the experience, qualifications, and systems to assess mobile phones and wireless devices against GCF’s Certification Criteria.

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Membership & Accreditation

GCF Assessment Capable Entity
Membership & Accreditation

GCF Assessment Capable Entities (ACE) are organisations that can determine the range of tests required to certify a device and assessing all the test results to ensure the device satisfies all relevant certification criteria.

Suitably qualified GCF Members can offer their services as Third Party Assessment Capable Entities to assist Associate Manufacturer Members with the certification of their connected devices or Client Vendor Members with the certification of their client applications.

IoTAS are a recognised GCF Assessment Capable Entity (ACE) for both Mission Critical Products and Non-Mission Critical Products.

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CWConnected

Cambridge Wireless (CW) is a leading and vibrant community with a rapidly expanding network across the globe interested in the development and application of wireless and mobile technologies to solve business problems. CW connects those companies and stimulates collaborative innovation through a range of thought-provoking high-profile networking events.

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Anti-Slavery Policy

Modern slavery is a crime resulting in an abhorrent abuse of the human rights of vulnerable workers. It can take various forms, such as:

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IoTAS and the Environment

IOT & Approval Solutions (IoTAS) Limited is committed to minimising the impact of its activities on the environment. Accordingly, we have and adhere to our environmental policy.

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Network Intelligence

The mobile communications arena is constantly growing and the associated infrastructures, transmission spectrum, integrated technologies and devices expanding at an almost exponential rate. With 5G offering increased data rates and device connectivity, lower latency, etc. and all the associated benefits then it’s even more important to know about the latest developments.

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Privacy Policy

IoT and Approval Solutions Limited (IoTAS) is a wireless technologies testing company. Under GDPR we are a Data Controller. This means we decide how your personal data is processed and for what purposes. At IoTAS we know that information relating to employment can at times be highly sensitive. We don’t sell personal data or make it available to any other organisation. Our Privacy Policy sets out the way in which we protect and manage your data.

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Quality

To ensure that IoTAS can offer the highest quality of work to our customers we engaged UKAS (United Kingdom Accreditation Service) to certify our testing methodology, analytics, and reporting.

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Please contact us directly via email: information@iotas.co.uk.

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