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Introduction

The term Radio Telemetry refers to the delivery of information using a radio carrier. Radio Telemetry systems range from simple point-to-point links through to complex data gathering networks spanning entire cities.

With the ever increasing cost of installing cables and the lowering cost of technology, the application of modern radio telemetry devices is limited only by the imagination. Modern telemetry systems often now also include the sensing device, such as for example a pressure transducer, strain gauge or temperature sensor. Similarly it is very common for devices to be battery operated with battery lives measured in decades.

The European Commission arranged a meeting of Market Surveillance Authorities (MSA’s) on 11th September 2007. The meeting, at OFCOM headquarters, was arranged to discuss the low level of compliance with the requirements of the R&TTE Directive that a market surveillance campaign undertaken by the MSA’s in 2005/2006 had identified.

On the 11th September a meeting was held between the LPRA and OFCOM enabling the LPRA to maintain our current relationship and gain insight into the latest position that OFCOM is taking in relation to a number of SRD trends.