Mobile & Wireless Forum Raises Technical Issues About IoT

Members and staff of the Mobile & Wireless Forum (MWF) said they met with officials from the FCC Office of Engineering and Technology to discuss IoT concerns. They discussed “MWF’s concerns about the capacity of the present certification procedures to accommodate the burgeoning number of approvals anticipated from the Internet of Things together with a proposal for a pilot program for expansion of self-certification where there would be limited risk of compliance issues,” the group said in a Thursday filing in docket 15-170. They also discussed the measurement of maximum permissible exposure for high-frequency spectrum devices “with emphasis on the need for the FCC Lab to establish an improved measurement area,” the filing said. The group stressed the importance of harmonizing a specific absorption rate for IoT devices. Among those at the meeting were OET Chief Julius Knapp and Rashmi Doshi, chief of the FCC lab, who joined by phone, MWF said. MWF members Intel, Motorola Solutions, Samsung and Zebra Technologies were represented at the meeting.