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A D I V I S I O N O F T R I M B L E
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Regulatory and Safety Compliance
M6e and Micro modules (including the Micro-LTE) conform to requirements for most
countries. Refer to the module User Guides for a list of which regions are supported.
FCC certification is required for operation in the US. Many other countries have adopted
FCC requirements as their own. Other countries have adopted all requirements but the
frequency band of operation. These countries require that the reader operate in a subset
of the FCC band (902 to 928 MHz) in order to avoid interfering with existing RF services
that were previously assigned to a portion of the FCC band. ThingMagic modules
accomplish this by allowing a custom “hop table” to be defined after FCC regional settings
are applied.
With respect to requirements for intentional radiation, the FCC will certify the RFID
module to be compliant as a component of a product and that certification covers any
product that contains the module. ThingMagic has obtained modular certification for our
M6e and Micro modules. The FCC ID’s for the modules in the xPRESS platform are:.
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Micro and Micro-LTE: QV5MERCURY6E-M
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M6e: QV5MERCURY6E
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Bluetooth Module: T9J-RN42
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WiFi Module: T9JRN171-1
Your product will be required to be labeled with a statement of compliance that refers to
these ID numbers if you are using our modular certification.
Included in the filing to the FCC is a calculation that shows the distance from the antenna
that should be maintained to keep RF levels at or below FCC-recommended safe
exposure limits. For UHF RFID, this is around 23 cm (9 inches), at the maximum
permissible transmission level when using antennas with the highest allowed gain. We
submit this calculation for the RF module alone when we obtain approval for the module.
This calculation may have to be amended if other intentional radiators, such as a
Bluetooth module, are present as well. The calculation depends on the separation
between the RFID antenna(s) and other simultaneously radiating antennas, so can only
be done once a finished product is created from the xPRESS platform.
The FCC does not allow vendors to pre-certify modules or platforms such as xPRESS for
unintentional radiation, but we have pre-tested the xPRESS platform to give our
customers confidence that any readers based on the xPRESS design will have a very
high probability of obtaining certification.
The Industry Canada (Industrie Canada) has the same technical requirements as FCC,
and allows modular certification, but has their own filing and labeling requirements. One
significant deviation from FCC is that all products containing the modules must be
declared to the IC, whereas FCC only requires that the modules FCC ID be on the outside