FCC Approves Schlage UWB Waiver
The FCC Office of Engineering and Technology approved Schlage's waiver request for an ultra-wideband locking device that it plans to sell for security use to be mounted on building entryways (see 2207050065). “Schlage’s access control devices would be limited to…
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deployment in residential units,” said a Wednesday order. “We also recognize that Schlage has taken further steps that provide us with added confidence that its system will not cause harmful interference in actual use,” OET said: “The reader uses directional type antennas with beam patterns primarily in the azimuthal plane, directed horizontally towards the ground, therefore reducing any potential interference to satellite receivers operating within the UWB frequency range under evaluation here. Schlage claims that because of the type of antenna being used and its positioning, there would be no ‘bleed over’ effects to signals outside of the area between the access credential and the device.”