FCC Approves Waiver for BlueWind Medical Device
The FCC Office of Engineering and Technology approved BlueWind Medical’s request for a waiver to permit its implantable medical device system operating at 6.78 MHz to exceed FCC emission limits. OET sought comment in January (see 2301190018). “We find there…
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to be a low risk of harmful interference stemming from the operations of the BlueWind device,” said a Friday order: “In addition to the technical conditions imposed in this waiver, BlueWind employs near-field inductive power transfer that decays rapidly and has a short range of only a few centimeters from the body. The emissions from the [external control unit] are directed into a user’s body, and the device does not radiate into space or the outside environment.”