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The Orange and Nano Pis are not FCC-certified, so they're not likely to be integrated into any product sold in the United States, at least legally-speaking, ass
by SlowBro 9y ago
The Orange and Nano Pis are not FCC-certified, so they're not likely to be integrated into any product sold in the United States, at least legally-speaking, assuming the manufacturer doesn't want to be fined. Orange pretends to be certified[1] (the PDF is named FCCCERTIFICATION), but it's mere verification (now called Supplier's Declaration of Conformity, or SDoC), and SDoC is not the same as certification[2].
If a manufacturer were to use the on-board wireless they could be heavily fined. Certification for these boards would cost around $15k, significantly increasing the price of an integrated product.
At least FriendlyElec doesn't pretend to have gotten their boards certified.
[1] http://www.orangepi.org/download/FCCCERTIFICATION.pdf http://www.orangepi.org/download/FCCCERTIFICATION.pdf
[2] https://www.fcc.gov/general/equipment-authorization-procedures https://www.fcc.gov/general/equipment-authorization-procedur...
- tmuir 9y agoI can't speak to pretending or not, but at the bottom of this NanoPi/FriendlyElec page, there are very similar looking pdfs for fcc, rohs, and ce. http://www.friendlyarm.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=132 http://www.friendlyarm.com/index.php?route=product/product&p...
- SlowBro 9y agoThank you. I couldn't find that with a Google site search[1]. But yes, that's not full certification. [1] https://www.google.com/search?q=fcc+site%3Afriendlyarm.com&rlz=1C1GGRV_enUS764US764&oq=fcc+site%3Afriendlyarm.com&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i64.5832j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 https://www.google.com/search?q=fcc+site%3Afriendlyarm.com&r...
- tmuir 9y agoI've always wondered where the line is on a product's FCC certification. Obviously US retailers such as Adafruit and Sparkfun have sold fully assembled unlicensed radio equipment for over a decade. What subtle changes could these companies make with their products that would suddenly gain the interest of the FCC?
- SlowBro 9y agoDo you have an example? SparkFun even has a blog entry about certification that's a useful read, although not entirely accurate. https://www.sparkfun.com/tutorials/398 https://www.sparkfun.com/tutorials/398