EMC precertification laboratory for railway communication equipment

This paper deals with the definition of an EMC precertification laboratory for communication equipment for railway systems. The main objectives are to show to 5th year telecom engineering students how to build an EMC precertification laboratory based on the applicable standards and introduce them into the tests executions and results interpretation. For that, first, it briefly explains why certification of the electronic equipment is required for these systems. The standards and norms relating to EMC certification and its tests are then presented, and there follows a summary of lab definition and a description of the different kinds of testing. Finally, this work concludes that an in-house laboratory can be defined in order to precertify any communication equipment for the railway industry and therefore it is important for telecom engineering student to have dealt with.