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FCC Creates Docket for Schlage UWB Waiver Request

The FCC Office of Engineering and Technology created docket 22-248 Tuesday on an April waiver request by Schlage for an ultra-wideband device it hopes to sell for security use to be mounted on building entryways. FCC rules require that such…

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devices be handheld and prohibit the use of antennas mounted on outdoor infrastructure. “Granting Schlage this request, a waiver request similar to others the Commission has granted in recent years, would not undermine the underlying purpose of these rules, which are to prevent interference to authorized users by large-scale UWB communications systems,” Schlage said in seeking a waiver.