What's New > New Standards Watch | 11 December 2025
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The latest issue of ESTA Standards Watch is now available here.
- News items in this issue include:
- Six ESTA/ESA standards in public review.
- ANSI public reviews: assistive listening devices; accessibility terms; parasitic communication protocol; multimedia visible light beacon systems; digital audio file format; digital video interface; wooden ladders; active fall protection; executive protection; and high-tension roller chains.
- BSI public review: big tents.
- New ANS projects: synchronizing audio and video; multichannel audio assignments; non-linear PCM bitstreams; virtual reality market; energy storage glossary; golf cars and personal transport devices.
- Final actions on ANSs: four ASHRAE/IES 90.1 addenda; electrical testing technician certification; low-voltage landscape lighting; elevators and escalators; holiday decorations; printed circuit boards; and flexible interconnects.
- Draft IEC & ISO docs: Fieldbus; renewable energy generation; sodium-ion cells; brain-computer interfaces; supply chain interoperability and integration; conformity assessment; restaurant buffet design; and ethical HR management.
- Recently published ISO & IEC docs: AC noot efficiency classes; low-latency communication and control; energy storage; community resilience; authenticity; cybersecurity and privacy; and Internet of media things.
- January TSP meeting schedule, all via WebEx.
- 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.


