Well for electronics there is UL in the US and there is no rule that your product has to be UL listed but if you want your house insured (many insurance compani

Well for electronics there is UL in the US and there is no rule that your product has to be UL listed but if you want your house insured (many insurance companies require plugged-in electronics be UL listed) and as a vendor you want your product sold in retail stores, you need the listing. It's a great example of the market solving the problem. You can make your product not pass UL testing but Home Depot won't sell it. Now if there was a similar standard for security it could work. Just the industry is young. As an aside, I think UL listing is prohibitively expensive. I wish there was competition.