How to become a Sigfox accredited Test House?
1. Sigfox accredited test house criteria
Any product intended to communicate on the Sigfox network will apply a Sigfox certification.
To foster the development of Sigfox certified end-to-end-solutions, the testing part of the Sigfox certification is being outsourced to Sigfox accredited test houses.
Two kinds of testing are being performed during Sigfox certification depending on the partner project:
- RF & Protocol tests
- Radiated Performance tests
RF& Protocol and Radiated Performance specification and test plan are are available on build website build.sigfox.com.
The below table summarizes the testing to be done depending on the certification type:
| RF &Protocol testing | Radiated performance testing |
Full approach | Tested on the Device | Tested on the Device |
Modular approach | Evidences inherited from Sigfox VerifiedTM Modular Design | Tested on the Device |
Sigfox accreditation is opened to any test house that at least complies with the mandatory criteria of the global accreditation chart available at the below link:
https://resources.sigfox.com/document/accreditation-chart
Some optional criteria may be taken into account for the Sigfox final decision of the candidate test house accreditation selection:
Accreditation will be delivered based on above criteria fulfillment and possibly with an accreditation audit performed by Sigfox.
2. Want to apply?
If you are a certification test house and you want to apply to the Sigfox certification test house accreditation,
- connect to the Partner Network at https://partners.sigfox.com/companies/test-house
- click on the “SUBMIT MY COMPANY” button
- fill the requested information
The Sigfox Certification Authority will be informed of your submission and will come back to you to move forward with the accreditation process.
