Experimental Investigation of the Electromagnetic Interference of ZigBee Transmitters on Measurement Instruments

Author

Betta, Giovanni ; Capriglione, Domenico ; Ferrigno, Luigi ; Miele, Gianfranco

Author_Institution

Dipt. di Autom., Elettromagnetismo, Ing. dell´´Inf. e Mat. Ind., Univ. of Cassino, Cassino

Volume

57

Issue

10

fYear

2008

Firstpage

2118

Lastpage

2127

Abstract

This paper deals with the electromagnetic susceptibility of measurement systems when subjected to interference generated by short-range, low-power wireless transmitters. A ZigBee transmitter was used as an interfering source operating close to the instrumentation under test. The results of numerous tests prove that different kinds of measurement instrumentation can be affected by the wireless module interference. Significant metro- logical performance decay was observed for both frequency- and time-domain measurements carried out by instrumentation whose bandwidth includes the ZigBee frequency operating range.

Keywords

measurement systems; radio transmitters; radiofrequency interference; ZigBee transmitters; electromagnetic interference; low-power wireless transmitters; measurement instruments; measurement systems; short-range wireless transmitters; wireless module interference; Electromagnetic compatibility; ZigBee; measurement; short-range transmitters; susceptibility; wireless;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Instrumentation and Measurement, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9456

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TIM.2008.922105

Filename

4523346