FiRa Consortium
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- Beaverton, Oregon, United States
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| Abbreviation | FiRa |
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| Formation | August 1, 2019[1] |
| Type | Standards consortium |
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Region served | Worldwide |
| Membership | Open |
| Website | www |
The FiRa Consortium (FiRa – "fine ranging"[2]) is a non-profit organization that promotes the use of ultra-wideband technology for use cases such as access control, location-based services, and device-to-device services.[3] UWB offers fine ranging and secure capabilities and operates in the available 6–9 GHz spectrum.[4] Founded on August 1, 2019, by ASSA ABLOY, Bosch, HID Global, NXP Semiconductors, and Samsung, the consortium aims to certify UWB products for conformity to defined standards of interoperability.[5] In June 2020, the FiRa Consortium and the UWB Alliance announced their formal liaison to "accelerate the development and adoption of UWB technology".[6]
The FiRa Consortium builds on to the IEEE 802.15.4/4z and future iterations and enhancements High Rate PHY (HRP) with an interoperable HRP standard that includes performance requirements, test methods and procedures, and a certification program based on the IEEE's profiled features.[5] An additional application layer is designed to discover UWB devices and services and configure them in an interoperable manner . Furthermore, FiRa plans to develop service-specific protocols for multiple verticals that leverage access control, location-based services, and device-to-device services.[7]
Members
FiRa's key stakeholders include chip manufacturers, device manufacturers, system integrators, service providers, technology provider, test tool developers, and test labs.[8] Following the initial sponsor members, the ASSA ABLOY Group (HID Global), NXP Semiconductors, Samsung Electronics, and Bosch, the FiRa Consortium counts more than 100 members in seven different membership categories.[9][10]