What's New > ESTA Standards Watch | September 25, 2023
September 25, 2023
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The latest issue of ESTA Standards Watch is now available here.
News items in this issue include:
- A dozen ESTA standards in public review.
- Five ESTA standards approved and published.
- WTO Technical Barriers to Trade: EU rules on carbon-neutral vehicles; EU mobile radio communications aboard vessels; WLAN spectra in Japan; zero emissions for cars and trucks in New Jersey.
- ANSI public reviews: five BACnet addenda; what you need to know about hydrogen; uniform solar, hydronics, and geothermal code; uniform swimming pool, spa, and hot tub code; water efficiency and sanitation; reconditioning electrical equipment; content profile/linked documents; Ada; SQuaRE for AI; and safety of decorative lighting cords.
- BSI public review announcement: IEC standard for Lighting System Electro-Mechanical Interfaces.
- New ANS projects: resistance welding; and reusable package design.
- Final actions on American National Standards: addendum to ASHRAE/IES 90.1; energy efficiency of routers and switches; three ESTA standards (now published); NFPA Fire Code; NFPA building code; LED retrofit safety; portable power cable; holiday decorations; and the UL GFCI standard.
- Draft IEC & ISO docs: AV equipment safety; two environmental management standards; predictive maintenance; five OLED standards; lighting electro-mechanical interface safety.
- Recently published ISO & IEC docs: two DALI; ethical considerations of AI in assisted living; industrial control security; amusement ride safety; unmanned aircraft; controlling risks in software development; lamppost network data exchange; and innovation management examples.
- TSP meetings and Plugfest schedule with one less meeting.
- Investors in Innovation, supporters of ESTA's Technical Standards Program, with two more donors.
The archive of all the Standards News and Standards Watch issues back to the beginning of 2011 is available at http://estalink.us/nn7a1.