Certification requirements are determined by three things — where the equipment is going, what kind of equipment it is, and who is buying it — and none of them is answered by the question "what certifications do you have?".
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Call +86 130 4890 6506 for selection guidance and comparable project types Email usIt is a reasonable question, and it is usually asked too early.
A supplier's certificate list tells you what that supplier has decided to pay for — not what your project requires. The two are frequently different, in both directions:
The useful question is: what does this specific project require? That has a determinate answer, and it is usually findable before anyone quotes you.
Market access is per destination, not per product. The same camera can be saleable freely into one country and blocked from another.
Three categories behave very differently:
| Category | Typical certification exposure |
|---|---|
| Mains-powered electronic hardware | Electrical safety + electromagnetic compatibility + hazardous-substance rules |
| Battery or radio-equipped hardware | The above, plus radio/telecom approval |
| Software / a server-based platform | Usually none of the above — software is not normally the regulated article |
This distinction matters commercially for us: two of the three areas described on this site are software. Software generally does not require CE marking, UL listing or FCC authorisation, because there is no article being placed on the market in the sense those regimes regulate. The host computer and any supplied hardware are a separate question. See §5.
Ask early which of these you are dealing with. It changes the answer more than the destination sometimes does.
⚠️ The following is a structural map, not legal advice, and not a substitute for your own confirmation. Rules change, apply differently by product category, and are enforced differently in practice. Confirm the specifics with a test house or your customs broker for your actual product and destination.
| Market | What is typically in play | Applies to |
|---|---|---|
| European Union | CE marking — for our kinds of hardware, EMC and RoHS (hazardous substances). WEEE (waste electronics) is a separate producer-registration duty, not part of CE. ⚠️ The Low Voltage Directive does not apply to the device itself: our hardware is DC-powered (DC 10–16 V / 10–28 V), while the LVD covers 50–1000 V AC / 75–1500 V DC. It would only apply to a supplied mains adapter — and then to the adapter, not to our device. | Electronic hardware. ⚠️ This is a market we cannot currently supply into without certification — for any of our lines, hardware or software-plus-integration. See §6 |
| United Kingdom | UKCA — but CE marking continues to be accepted in Great Britain for most goods, so UKCA is frequently optional | Same as above |
| United States | FCC rules for electronic devices (emissions); UL listing is not a legal requirement but is frequently a purchasing requirement | Electronic hardware |
| Canada | ISED for radio; cUL as a purchasing requirement | Electronic hardware |
| Saudi Arabia | SASO — a mandatory conformity programme for many product categories | Hardware |
| UAE / Gulf | ECAS-type schemes in some emirates | Hardware |
| Brazil | INMETRO — mandatory for many regulated categories | Hardware |
| Russia / EAEU | EAC declaration or certificate | Hardware |
| Explosive atmospheres (any market) | ATEX (EU) or IECEx (international scheme) — hazardous-area approval, which is a different regime from ordinary product safety | Equipment installed in a hazardous area |
A general energy-sector checklist often includes MID (the EU Measuring Instruments Directive). MID applies to measuring instruments placed on the market as such. Its scope is broader than many people assume: it covers water meters, gas meters, electricity meters and thermal-energy meters — not electricity meters alone.
That broader scope is exactly why the reason matters. The reason MID does not apply to us is not that we sit outside the meter categories — our reading products are aimed precisely at water, electricity and gas meters. The reason is that we place a reading accessory / camera on the market, not a measuring instrument. The legal measuring function stays with the existing meter, which is already certified. Our device reads that meter; it does not become the instrument of measurement.
So MID is not the relevant regime for our products — and if you have seen it on a list that covers "energy products" generally, it is worth checking whether that line was written for the meter or for the reading device.
The same discipline applies in reverse: check that a certification being quoted to you actually regulates the article you are buying. It is common to see certificates offered that address a different product category.
| Product | Form | Certification exposure |
|---|---|---|
| Meter reading camera / edge box | Electronic hardware powered from a DC supply (the sources document DC 10–16 V and DC 10–28 V inputs over a separate feed) | This is the one that carries the ordinary hardware exposure — EMC, electrical safety, hazardous substances, and destination-specific schemes |
| Cable & tunnel temperature monitoring | Software platform plus integration; the DTS sensing device is specified by the project | The platform is software. The sensing device is a separate article with its own approvals — ask its manufacturer |
| Energy management platform | Software | Software |
Practical consequence: if you need CE for a project, the work is concentrated in one of the areas described here, not all of them. That is a statement about where the hardware exposure sits — it is not a route into the EU without certification: the platform itself is software, but the delivered system runs on a host you provide and integrates a sensing device in your installation, so EU procurement still requires CE-marked hardware. Practically, we cannot supply an EU project today. Ask any supplier to be equally specific — "our products are CE marked" is not a useful sentence if only one of their product lines has been assessed.
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We do not currently hold CE, UL, FCC, ATEX, IECEx, SASO, INMETRO or EAC certification for our products.
We say this deliberately, and early, because:
What we will do instead of implying we have something we do not:
Five questions worth asking before anyone quotes you a certified product:
A supplier who helps you answer these — including the answers that lose them the order — is more useful than one who sends a certificate pack and an invoice.
No. We do not currently hold CE, UL, FCC, ATEX, IECEx, SASO, INMETRO or EAC certification for our products, and we would rather tell you that now than have it discovered later. If your project requires CE marking, tell us the market and the product line and we will say whether we can get there in your timeframe, or whether you should look elsewhere.
No — CE marking is the condition for placing most of the relevant hardware on the EU market. Our software platforms are not the regulated article in themselves, but that does not open a software-only route in: the delivered system runs on a host you provide and integrates a sensing device in your installation, so EU procurement still requires CE-marked hardware. Practically, we cannot supply an EU project today — if you are in the EU and need our hardware, certification is a prerequisite, not a formality.
Only if it is installed in a hazardous area, and the requirement attaches to the equipment in that area. Note that in our offering the sensing device is a separate article from the monitoring software platform — explosion protection is a property of the installed equipment, so the question is best directed at the device manufacturer for the device, and at us for the software.
MID applies to measuring instruments placed on the market as such. Its scope is broader than many people assume: it covers water meters, gas meters, electricity meters and thermal-energy meters — not electricity meters alone. The reason MID does not apply to us is not that we sit outside those meter categories — our reading products are aimed precisely at water, electricity and gas meters. The reason is that we place a reading accessory / camera on the market, not a measuring instrument. The legal measuring function stays with the existing meter, which is already certified: our device reads that meter, it does not become the instrument of measurement. If MID appears in a requirement list for your project, it is worth confirming whether it was written for the meter or for the reading device.
Those apply to electrical and electronic equipment placed on the EU market. They apply to our hardware line directly; software is not the regulated article in itself. That is not a way around them for a delivered system, though — an EU installation still needs CE-marked hardware (the host and the sensing device), and, as §6 says, we cannot supply an EU project today.
Yes. Tell us the destination, what the equipment is, and who is asking for the certification, and we will tell you what the requirement looks like and where it does — or does not — apply. We would rather you spent the money on the right thing.
If a specific market reaches the point where certification gates real orders, we will scope it against that requirement. That is a different exercise from obtaining certificates speculatively across many markets, which is expensive and often aimed at the wrong one.
That covers much of Southeast Asia and the Middle East, our launch markets, and also parts of South America (Brazil requires INMETRO) and Africa. Tell us the site and the application and we will confirm whether it is straightforward.
Tell us the destination, the product and who is asking for the certificate. We will tell you what the requirement actually covers — and say so plainly if we are not the right supplier for it today.
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