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Simultaneous impedance measurement on several excitation frequencies increases the VMP measurement reliability because typical electromagnetic interferences (EMI) are narrowband, and should not simultaneously affect, in the same way, all measurement bands that are spread in the frequency, i.e., it is expected that at least one measurement band is disturbance-free. The system consists of two standard and two slim IL sensors, specially designed and installed, the analogue front-end, and an industrial computer with digital-to-analogue and analogue-to-digital converters accessed via field-programmable gate array (FPGA). The impedance of the IL sensors is obtained by vector measurement of voltages from auto-balancing bridge (ABB) front-end. Complex voltages are demodulated from excitation frequencies with FIR filters designed with the flat-top windows. The system is capable of delivering VMPs in real-time mode, and also storing voltages for off-line postprocessing and analysis. Field distributions and sensitivities of slim and standard IL sensors are also discussed. Field test confirmed assumed increased reliability of VMP measurement for proposed simultaneous multifrequency operational mode.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s20174933","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,8,31]],"date-time":"2020-08-31T08:11:19Z","timestamp":1598861479000},"page":"4933","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["Multifrequency Vector Measurement System for Reliable Vehicle Magnetic Profile Assessment"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"20","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4186-2710","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zbigniew","family":"Marszalek","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Measurement and Electronics, AGH University of Science and Technology, 30 Mickiewicz Avenue, 30-059 Krakow, Poland"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3827-8553","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Krzysztof","family":"Duda","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Measurement and Electronics, AGH University of Science and Technology, 30 Mickiewicz Avenue, 30-059 Krakow, Poland"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,8,31]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2126","DOI":"10.1109\/TITS.2016.2632972","article-title":"Magnetic Field Generated by the Loops Used in Traffic Control Systems","volume":"18","year":"2017","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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