The present document covers the assessment of Short Range Devices (SRD) operating in the frequency range 9 kHz to
246 GHz in respect of ElectroMagnetic Compatibility (EMC).
The present document specifies the applicable test conditions, performance assessment, and performance criteria for
Short Range Devices (SRD) and the associated ancillary equipment.
The present document applies to the categories of SRD listed in Table 1 with the exception that the present document
does not apply to devices for which a product specific harmonised EMC standard is available.
NOTE 1: The entries in Table 1 of the present document are based on the Decision (EU) 2019/1345 [i.1], Table 1.
Table 1: Categories of short range device
Category of Short Range
Devices
Scope of the category
Non-specific SRD. Covers all kinds of radio devices, regardless of the application
or their purpose, which fulfil the technical conditions as
specified for a given frequency band. Typical uses include
telemetry, telecommand, alarms, data transmissions in
general and other applications.
(See note 1).
Active medical implant
devices.
(See note 2).
Covers the radio part of active implantable medical devices
that are intended to be fully or partially introduced, surgically
or medically, into the human body or that of an animal, and
where applicable their peripherals. Active implantable medical
devices are defined in Council Directive 90/385/EEC [i.3].
Assistive Listening Devices
(ALDs).
(See note 2).
Covers radio communications systems that allow persons with
hearing impairment to increase their listening capability.
Typical system installations include one or more radio
transmitters and one or more radio receivers.
High duty cycle/continuous
transmission devices.
Covers radio devices that rely on low latency and high duty
cycle transmissions. These devices are typically used for
personal wireless audio and multimedia streaming systems
used for combined audio/video transmissions and audio/video
sync signals, mobile phones, automotive or home
entertainment system, wireless microphones, cordless
loudspeakers, cordless headphones, radio devices carried on
a person, assistive listening devices, in-ear monitoring,
wireless microphones for use at concerts or other stage
productions, and low power analogue FM transmitters.
Inductive devices. Covers radio devices that use magnetic fields with inductive
loop systems for near field communications. This typically
includes devices for car immobilisation, animal identification,
alarm systems, cable detection, waste management, personal
identification, wireless voice links, access control, proximity
sensors, anti-theft systems as well as RF anti-theft induction
systems, data transfer to hand-held devices, automatic article
identification, wireless control systems and automatic road
tolling.
Low duty cycle/high reliability
devices.
Covers radio devices that rely on low overall spectrum
utilization and low duty cycle spectrum access rules to ensure
highly reliable spectrum access and transmissions in shared
bands. Typical applications include alarm systems that use
radio communication for indicating an alert condition at a
distant location and social alarm systems that allow reliable
communication for a person in distress.
Medical data acquisition
devices.
(See note 2).
Covers the transmission of non-voice data to and from nonimplantable
medical devices in order to monitor, diagnose and
treat patients in healthcare facilities or in their homes as
prescribed by duly authorized healthcare professionals.
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Category of Short Range
Devices
Scope of the category
PMR446 devices. Covers hand portable equipment (without base station or
repeater use) carried on a person or manually operated,
which uses integral antennas only in order to maximize
sharing and minimize interference. PMR 446 equipment
operates in short-range peer-to-peer mode and excludes use
either as a part of infrastructure network or as a repeater.
Radio determination devices.
(See note 2).
Covers radio devices used for determining the position,
velocity and/or other characteristics of an object, or for
obtaining information relating to these parameters. Radio
determination equipment typically conducts measurements to
obtain such characteristics. Radio determination devices
exclude any kind of point-to-point or point-to-multipoint radio
communications.
Radio Frequency
IDentification (RFID) devices.
Covers tag/interrogator based radio communications systems,
consisting of (i) radio devices (tags) attached to animate or
inanimate items and (ii) transmitter/receiver units
(interrogators) which activate the tags and receive data back.
Typical applications include the tracking and identification of
items, for instance for the purpose of Electronic Article
Surveillance (EAS), and collecting and transmitting data
relating to the items to which tags are attached, which may be
either battery-less, battery assisted or battery powered. The
responses from a tag are validated by its interrogator and
passed to its host system.
Transport and traffic
telematics devices.
Covers radio devices that are used in the fields of transport
(road, rail, water or air, depending on the relevant technical
restrictions), traffic management, navigation, mobility
management and in Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS).
Typical applications include interfaces between different
modes of transport, communication between vehicles (e.g. car
to car), between vehicles and fixed locations (e.g. car to
infrastructure) as well as communication from and to users.
Wideband data transmission
devices.
(See note 2).
Covers radio devices that use wideband modulation
techniques to access the spectrum. Typical uses include
wireless access systems such as Radio Local Area Networks
(WAS/RLANs) or wideband SRDs in data networks.
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