FCC Approves Waiver for Ultra-Wideband Lock System
The FCC Office of Engineering and Technology Tuesday approved a waiver for Assa Abloy to permit the certification and marketing of a new ultra-wideband-enabled lock system. “The UWB technical and operational standards in Part 15 were adopted to ensure that…
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UWB devices do not cause harmful interference to authorized radio services,” OET said. “We find nothing in the record to indicate that the Assa Abloy devices would differ from other UWB devices such that they would pose an increased risk of causing harmful interference to authorized radio service.” The system relies on Bluetooth technology “for an initial ‘discovery’ phase, and UWB will only be used for the ‘secure ranging and intent detection’ phase of the operation, which determines the distance between the phone and the door, tracks the movement of the user, and detects the intent of the user to go through the door,” the order said.