OET Eliminates Condition on GPR Auto Safety Waiver
The FCC Office of Engineering and Technology Monday approved a tweak that GPR recently sought to a waiver the company received for its driver-assistance safety technology, which uses ultra-wideband (UWB) ground penetrating radar (see 2311140046). “GPR requested that we modify…
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the Waiver Order to remove condition 6, which requires the GPR device to cease operation when the vehicle on which it is mounted comes to a stop,” OET said: Removing the condition “will not undermine the purpose of the UWB rules, i.e., to prevent harmful interference to authorized services.” The likelihood of harmful interference from the GPR device “is extremely low due to a number of factors, including operating in frequency bands that were selected to reduce the likelihood of harmful interference to authorized services, at low power levels with emissions in adjacent bands attenuated to protect services in those bands, only when pointed at the ground, and under conditions that limit how the units may be deployed,” OET said.