New FCC RF Limits Would Impose 'Unwarranted Regulation and Costs,' Says Sensormatic
Sensormatic, a supplier of security solutions for retailers, said the FCC should drop a proposal to adopt International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) in RF rules. The comments respond to a December NPRM (see 1912040036). Adopting the ICNIRP 2010…
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dose limits for the 3 kHz to 10 MHz frequency range “would be imposing significant and unwarranted regulation and costs,” said a filing posted Wednesday in docket 19-226. “Insofar as Sensormatic’s own industry is concerned, the Commission would be imposing undesirable and unnecessary equipment performance degradation -- all without any apparent health or safety benefit.” GuRu Wireless asked the FCC to classify wireless power transfer at a distance equipment as Part 18 devices. “These systems do work rather than transmit communications,” it said: “They also operate in a way comparable to consumer-grade microwave ovens and industrial heating equipment (albeit at much lower power levels), which have long been allowed under Part 18.”