FCC Bureau Approves Waiver for Mining Safety System
The FCC Wireless Bureau approved a waiver for IDS GeoRadar to use its 76-77 GHz band Hyper Definition Radar (Hydra) system to detect potential collapses, landslides and rockfalls. “This is a specific, limited fixed use outside of airport locations that…
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will not cause harmful interference to vehicular radar operations in the band,” the bureau said last week in docket 17-358. “Grant of a waiver is in the public interest because it will increase safety in mines and tunnels.” Use is limited to underground mines, open pit mines and tunnels, and authorized effective isotropic radiated power may not exceed 48 dBm, it said. Hydra devices mustn't cause interference to and must tolerate interference from incumbent users of the band, the bureau said.