What's New > New Standards Watch | 06 January 2026 | Happy New Year
January 6, 2026
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The latest issue of ESTA Standards Watch is now available here.
- One ESTA/ESA standard in public review.
- Call for ESTA TSP consensus body participants.
- WTO Technical Barriers to Trade: batteries in the EU.
- FCC's IoT labeling program loses lead company.
- Winter-Spring 2026 BTS virtual training sessions.
- ANSI public reviews: IES standards on color and dimming; electronics circular economy; industrial telecommunication infrastructure; mobile robot safety; powered platform safety; and waste water reuse.
- BSI public review: digital product cybersecurity.
- New ANS projects: cosmic radiation monitoring; toilet trailers; solid-state batteries; wooden handrails; and hydrogen generators.
- Final actions on ANSs: more oodles of ASHRAE/IES Standard 90.1 addenda; ESTA's overhead luminaires; nine IES standards about light and lighting; water spray fire protection systems; and industrial control cables.
- Draft IEC & ISO docs: e-waste; intercoms; obsolescence management; premises cabling; IoT; safety of machinery; BIM; sustainable development management; sustainable mobility; high speed data cable; brain-computer interfaces; lighting systems general requirements; short-circuit currents; and generic cabling.
- Recently published ISO & IEC docs: industrial automation security and adjustable speed drives.
- TSP meetings, now with ending times as well as start times.
- Investors in Innovation, supporters of ESTA's Technical Standards Program.
The archive of all the Standards News and Standards Watch issues back to the beginning of 2011 is available at http://estalink.us/nn7a1.