Hello,
Thank your for reading my question,
As I know, To sell a electronic product on US, the product needs to get FCC certificate. However, I see many sensors/modules that do not have FCC but still sell on US. The bellow are example:
Is there any exempt for FCC for these module ?
Thank you in advance
None of those products transmit radio signals, so no FCC license is required.
Perhaps you are confusing the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) with some other regulatory agency.
FCC certification is required only if there is an oscillator or clock producing a signal of 400 kHz or greater.
Dear @jremington
Thank you for your comment.
As I know, FCC certification can be split into two types: intentional radiator and non-intentional radiator.
I would like to ask if the above modules are in non-intentional radiator?
Thank you!
Dear @Paul_KD7HB
According to this, Equipment Authorization – RF Device | Federal Communications Commission, frequency range is from 9 kHz to 3000 GHz.
Please point out if there is something I missed.
Thank you
You can typically sell unintended radiator modules without certification. The complete and packaged end product is what needs the certification. Using pre-certified modules just makes it easier.
Thank you for your information. The "modules" and "complete and packaged end product" terms make clear.
PS: I still welcome any new comments from anyone!
Most Arduino-related products skate by on being "prototyping components", rather than "products", I think. In the same sense that a bare ATmega328p chip doesn't need an FCC certification, neither does a "sensor module."
If you were to wire them together and sell them as a consumer product, the product as a whole might need RF certification...
Thank you!
Hire a lawyer with expertise in commercial product licensing.
If you're looking at technical conformance (FCC, UL, etc), some sort of testing lab is probably cheaper than a lawyer. Except that the lab will probably charge you some sort of fixed fee, while the lawyer will just charge you $500/hour...
I can only speak as a none US resident, but I was responsible for FCC certification in a number of jobs I had.
You do need FCC certification to sell a product In the US. Not only that but if you change anything about the product it needs retesting. There is the now famous case of a German manufacturer who changed the colour of an LED and thought it didn't need retesting but it did and were heavily fined.
I think the specific sale of sensors on a board do not need testing because they are classed as subassemblies that can not function without other components being added. Having said that I needed to get FCC approval on individual RFID readers, but they were intentional emitters. I also needed FCC on the modules that made up an access control system even if those modules could not do a useful job by themselves.
The UK and EU have there own system and the technical requirements are slightly different to the FCC. The FCC requires the tests be done at an FCC approved test house, so the best solution was to use a UK test house with FCC approval. These were more expensive test houses because they knew it was cheaper to have both FCC and UK standards done on the same day of testing.
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