Trends

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CEA Discovery Group Portable Electronic Devices
(PEDs) On Aircraft Standards Options
November 20, 2003 CEA Headquarters Arlington, VA
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CEA Discovery GroupPortable Electronic Devices
(PEDs) On Aircraft

• Standards Options
• Virginia Williams
• Engineering Director, Technology and Standards,
  CEA
• R7 Home Networking Standards

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CEA Discovery Group Portable Electronic Devices
(PEDs) On Aircraft

• Standards Options
• Stake Holders
• 1 Lime Airlines/Attendants
• 2 Blue Aircraft/Avionics
• 3 Green Devices (PEDs)
• 4 Lemon Chips/Accessories/Enabling Devices
• 5 Orange Cell Carrier/Telecom Services
• 6 Red Other
• Thank You!

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CEA Discovery Group Portable Electronic Devices
(PEDs) On Aircraft

• Standards Conventions
• Why Standardize?
• Interoperability
• Ease of use
• Performance level
• Safety
• To solve some problem
• Consistency a bigger pie for all
• (v a bigger slice of the same old pie)

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CEA Discovery Group Portable Electronic Devices
(PEDs) On Aircraft

• Standards Conventions
• Range of document types
• Standard (formal accredited due process)
• Guideline
• Recommended Practice
• De facto Standard (usually privately developed)
• Proprietary Specification
• Position paper

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CEA Discovery Group Portable Electronic Devices
(PEDs) On Aircraft

• Standards Conventions
• Critical mass needed
• Clear goal and purpose (problem statement)
• Active Interest (participation of all stake
  holders)
• Able leader (knolwege, objectivity, time)
• Editor (articulate, time consuming)
• Development Cycle
• Proposal and peer review

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CEA Discovery Group Portable Electronic Devices
(PEDs) On Aircraft

• Standards Conventions
• Trade-offs

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CEA Discovery Group Portable Electronic Devices
(PEDs) On Aircraft

• Standards Conventions
• Development Support

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CEA Discovery Group Portable Electronic Devices
(PEDs) On Aircraft

• Standards Conventions
• CEA Standards Committees
• R1 Product Safety
• R2 EMI
• R3 Audio
• R4 Video
• R5 Antennas
• R6 Mobile Electronics
• R7 Home Networking
• R8 Cable TV
• R9 Automatic ID Tags (bar codes and RFID)

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CEA Discovery Group Portable Electronic Devices
(PEDs) On Aircraft

• Standards Conventions
• CEA Technology and Standards
• ANSI accredited standards developer (SDO)
• Over 325 companies participate
• Over 1500 individuals participate
• Over 70 active groups
• So far in 2003
• Over 400 meetings
• A dozen new standards

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CEA Discovery Group Portable Electronic Devices
(PEDs) On Aircraft

• Standards Conventions
• CEA Product Divisions
• Accessories
• Audio
• Electronic Gaming
• Home Networking
• Home Theater
• IT / Tech Office
• Mobile / Automotive
• Video
• Wireless

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CEA Discovery Group Portable Electronic Devices
(PEDs) On Aircraft

• Standards Conventions
• Potential Areas to Standardize (in PEDs)
• User Interface
• Status Display (icons and other indicators)
• Outer marking (product classes)
• Modes of operation (definitions, sequence,
  transmitter activity)
• Default settings (power up states)
• Reference terminology
• Performance
• Emissions
• Auto sensing or reacting behaviors

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CEA Discovery Group Portable Electronic Devices
(PEDs) On Aircraft

• Standards Conventions
• Other Considerations in Adopting Standards
• (to increase voluntary adoption)
• May need to sacrifice some product
  differentiation for ease of use
• Allow growth of new technologies, new
  combinations in devices, new capability of
  aircraft, etc.
• Low complexity design impact

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CEA Discovery Group Portable Electronic Devices
(PEDs) On Aircraft

• Standards Conventions
• Post-development Support and Promotion
• Cross-industry adoption of terms
• (consistent messages)
• Cross-industry adoption of allowed or supported
  consumer behaviors
• Manufacturer awareness
• (product marking registration program,
  voluntary)
• Consumer awareness / passenger awareness
• (point of sale, product literature) / (in-flight
  literature)
• Government awareness
• (information briefing, advocacy)

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CEA Discovery Group Portable Electronic Devices
(PEDs) On Aircraft

• Standards Options
• Possible Outcomes
• No standards are needed why? (done)
• Standards would be useful how? (continue to
  explore, 2 meetings max)
• Standards are needed specific project (rapid
  development)

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CEA Discovery Group Portable Electronic Devices
(PEDs) On Aircraft

• Standards Conventions
• Development Process
• Discovery Group establishes industry interest
  around a clear goal
• Staff directs to appropriate adoption body
• Staff facilitates development group formation
• (reflector, conference call bridge, meeting
  notices, document circulation)
• Development Group sets project schedule
• Work Product approved
• Post-development Support and Promotion

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CEA Discovery Group Portable Electronic Devices
(PEDs) On Aircraft

• Standards Options
• Now What?
• Identify other potential standards areas
• Select the most favored ones
• Draft scope
• Select leader editor
• Sign up participants
• Questions, Suggestions, Other Thoughts?

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CEA Discovery Group Portable Electronic Devices
(PEDs) On Aircraft

• Standards Options
• Other resources
• http//asrs.arc.nasa.gov/report_sets/ped.pdf

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CEA Discovery Group Portable Electronic Devices
(PEDs) On Aircraft

• Standards Options
• Thank You!
• Technology Policy
• Doug Johnson, senior director djohnson_at_ce.org
• John Hartgen, manager jhartgen_at_ce.org
• Technology and Standards
• Virginia Williams, director vwilliams_at_ce.org
• Wadei Powell, manager wpowell_at_ce.org
• www.ce.org