Keysight 2023 Corporate Social Responsibility Report: Purposeful Technology

Keysight helps build a better planet through sustainably-developed electronic measurement solutions that accelerate innovations that change lives, secure the world, and connect people across the globe.

Keysight’s product life cycle employs circular economy principles to support sustainability while helping customers protect their innovation investment through maintenance, repair, refurbishing, and recycling. When used by customers, Keysight’s leading-edge design, emulation, and test solutions help drive innovations that build a better planet in areas such as clean technology, social impact and wellness, and safety and security.

Clean tech innovation 

Disruptive innovations in automotive electromobility, renewable energy, and the Internet of Things (IoT) that enable smart cities, homes, and agriculture are key to bringing breakthroughs in environmental sustainability. These technologies reduce global reliance on carbon-heavy fuels, enable better natural resource management, and support quality monitoring of soil, water, and air as infrastructures become more connected. But the increased reliance on power stretches electric grids to capacity, driving the need for better battery management, and requiring development, evaluation and optimization of state-of the-art networks and technologies.

Keysight empowers the clean tech revolution by providing solutions for automotive, energy, networking, communications, and IoT companies to design, test, manufacture, and monitor their next generation, environmentally sustainable product and service offerings.

For example, Keysight’s comprehensive regenerative power supply portfolio and innovative battery emulators are widely used to develop new energy storage systems and charging solutions for the electromobility ecosystem, aligning with decarbonization goals.

In FY 2023, Keysight made numerous contributions to sustainability in this space, including introducing new automated solutions that enable device and chipset manufacturers to accurately assess and optimize energy efficiency. In addition, Keysight collaborated with Analog Devices, Vodaphone, Intel, FlexRan, Wind River, and Dell Technologies to accelerate the adoption of network energy savings development and testing.¹ Since the radio access network (RAN) consumes 70% to 80%² of the wireless industry’s total energy, network energy savings (NES) modes are an important area of ongoing standardization within the Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) community.

Social impact and wellness 

Technology provides a gateway to community prosperity. Smart cities enable optimized community services; smart agriculture helps minimize hunger; wearables and healthcare devices promote wellbeing; mission-critical communications ensure first-responders stay connected in crises; and technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR), and automation enable a diverse workforce to flourish. Quality, interoperability, and high performance are critical in delivering prosperity through technology, while educating next-generation technologists is crucial to ensuring future skillsets can meet tomorrow’s challenges.

Keysight supports social impact and wellness by providing solutions that test and validate designs, simulate and measure real-world conditions, and monitor infrastructure deployments. The company also provides equipment, software, and resources to prepare tomorrow’s engineers for the next technological revolution.

For example, Keysight’s Electronic Design Automation (EDA) 2024 software suite, powered by the company’s proprietary measurement science, seamlessly integrates with intellectual property and design data management to provide engineers with a comprehensive solution that accelerates virtual prototype creation. It offers highly accurate validation prior to building physical prototypes and initiating volume production manufacturing.

Safety and security

Faster, more reliable communications, connected devices, and AI technologies support emerging innovations across multiple applications, including crisis management, community security, healthcare, next-generation aeronautics, autonomous vehicles, and smart devices. Such applications connect and secure global communities by providing the technology needed to address privacy rights and safety threats quickly and efficiently. The ubiquitous use of networked data, devices, and AI technologies for these purposes, however, also opens the door to vulnerabilities that can result in new, unintended safety issues and privacy implications.

Keysight solutions test performance, validate security, and monitor deployments of such technologies in real-time. This enables our customers to find and fix vulnerabilities before they impact operations, thereby supporting enduser safety, security, and privacy as applications are scaled to connect and secure the world.

In FY 2023 for example, as an innovator in IoT, 6G, and other new technologies, Keysight joined a select group of industry leaders at the US White House for the launch of the Cyber Trust Mark program, a new cybersecurity labeling initiative for consumer IoT devices. Keysight’s Communications Solutions Group’s (CSG) Wireline Network Test leaders Ram Periakaruppan, vice president and general manager, and Scott Register, vice president of security solutions, were joined by industry leaders from Amazon, Best Buy, Cisco Systems, Google, Qualcomm, LG, Samsung, and others.³

In addition, governmental regulatory agencies used Keysight solutions to assist in other safety and security efforts. For example, US government regulatory agencies relied on Keysight’s mobile FieldFox handheld analyzers to ensure 5G cell towers near airports do not interfere with aviation safety. A Canadian regulatory agency selected Keysight’s FieldFox electromagnetic field measurement solution for its RF exposure safety test, Safety Code 6, to ensure devices comply with the recommended safety limits for human exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields.

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_{1. Keysight, Keysight Enables 20 Open RAN Solution Demonstrations for AI, Sustainability, Interoperability and Test Automation at O-RAN ALLIANCE Fall 2023 Global PlugFest, December 15, 2023}

_{2. Keysight, Energy Efficiency of Radio Units in Next-Generation Open Radio Access Networks, September 5, 2023}

_{3. Keysight, Keysight Joins White House Initiative to Improve IoT Security, July 18, 2023}