Itron Petitions Wireless Bureau on Waiver for Co-Channel, ERP Rules for Smart Grid Tech
Itron petitioned the FCC Wireless Bureau to reconsider its denial of the company’s requests for waivers from Sections 22.355, 22.515, and 22.531 of FCC rules -- co-channel protection requirements and effective radiated power (ERP) rules for its operations on the…
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931 MHz band. Waivers of the co-channel protection requirements are necessary for Itron to “engage in half-duplex transmissions to facilitate transmissions both to and from Itron’s meter module end points,” the company said Thursday in docket 13-195. The ERP waiver is necessary to permit Itron to operate fixed and mobile stations with an ERP of less than 2 watts to be subject to a frequency tolerance of 5 ppm rather than 1.5 ppm, the company said. The waivers would allow Itron to support automatic meter reading and advanced metering infrastructure systems that are “key components of modern smart grid infrastructure,” the company said. The Wireless Bureau denied Itron’s waiver request Jan. 13 because it said Itron hadn’t adequately explained how its proposed operations would protect co-channel site-based incumbents and co-channel geographic area licensees. Itron clarified in the petition how its proposed operations would protect incumbents and co-channel geographic area licensees.