
Case Study: Certifying an entirely new class of products
Navigate your business in an increasingly complex world with industry-leading research and actionable insights from UL Solutions.
Explore our press releases and news updates. Delve into detailed press kits for information on our work. If it’s UL Solutions and newsworthy, it’s here.
Connect with us in person or online, around the globe. We’re everywhere your business needs us to be.
As a global safety science leader, UL Solutions helps companies to demonstrate safety, enhance sustainability, strengthen security, deliver quality, manage risk and achieve regulatory compliance.
See how we put safety science to work to help create a safer, more secure and sustainable world for you.
Explore our business intelligence-building digital tools and databases, search for help, review our business information, or share your concerns and questions.
Accelerate your planning process and learn the requirements needed to take your products to market worldwide.
A secure, online source for increased visibility into your UL Solutions project files, product information, documents, samples and services.
Access UL certification data on products, components and systems, identify alternatives and view guide information with Product iQ.
UL Solutions succeeded in outlining the path to successfully certify the LBK System under a new Certification Requirement Decision.
Inxpect started working with UL Solutions in 2017 for certification of their first radar sensor for security applications under UL 639, the Standard for Intrusion-Detection Units. After this first step, the company’s focus shifted to using smart radars to help ensure safe interactions between people and machines in manufacturing, construction, mining and logistics. In 2018, they launched the LBK System: the first, and still only, radar sensor certified for safety uses under the European Machinery Directive.
However, this presented a challenge since no UL standard in the field of safety sensors had ever referred to radar as a sensing technique.
UL Solutions succeeded in outlining the path to successfully certify the LBK System under a new Certification Requirement Decision (CRD): an ambitious plan requiring a strong commitment from both UL Solutions and Inxpect. The process was completed in less time than normally needed for such an innovative device, leading to certification by UL Solutions, of the LBK System under the new CRD of IEC 61496-3 Certification Requirement Decision – Additional Considerations for Protective Devices Responsive to Diffuse Reflection of Radar (PDRDRR) as a Type 3 ESPE (Electro-Sensitive Protective Equipment), becoming the first radar system with a UL Listing as a safety device, and the first UL Certified device under the new CRD specification.
Download the complete case study below.
Case Study: Certifying an entirely new class of products
“… Certification from UL Solutions helps our customers understand that Inxpect products are engineered and manufactured according to the applicable standards and requirements. In the world of safety certification, this peace of mind is particularly important.”
Luca Salgarelli, co-founder and CEO, Inxpect
Have questions, need specifics? Let's get this conversation started.
One of our team members will respond to your request as soon as possible. To ensure that you receive our reply, please whitelist our domain @insights.ul.com and add it as a safe sender in your list of approved contacts.