NRF52832 BLE Certification

[yogesh]

NRF52832 is bluetooth pre approved SoC. So still need to pay Buetooth SIG to sell my Bluetooth based product in INDIA ??? Can i Sell non Certified product Without FCC CE in india and non certified Bluetooth ? Is there any RisK ??

[FormerMember]

FCC is the regulatory standard for the US, and ETSI (CE) is the regulatory standard for Europe. I would think that there is a such standard for India as well.

Regarding selling non-certified Bluetooth product: It is not allowed to sell a non-certified Bluetooth product or a non-certified Bluetooth compatible product.

The nRF52832 with the S132 softdevice is a Bluetooth qualified design, and has a QDID. The process for qualifying a design based on a product with a QDID can be found here.

[FormerMember]

Yes, the fee for qualifying a BLE device is quite high. However, there is a "​Innovation Incentive Program" with lower qualification fee if your startup meet the requirements for that program, see this page for the various fees.

Instead of designing your own design with the nRF52, it can be an option to look at 3rd party modules. The list of 3rd party modules can be found here. The benefit of using a module is that they are already qualified for various regulatory standards, and it is not necessary to do a RF-PHY re-test (part of the BLE qualification). It can be useful to have a look at this thread as well.