Citation[]
Elliot F. Kaye & Jonathan D. Midgett, Ph.D., A Framework of Safety for the Internet of Things: Considerations for Consumer Product Safety (U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission) (Jan. 31, 2019) (full-text).
Overview[]
Sixty billion connected devices and counting, the Internet of Things (IoT) is already providing consumers with conveniences and benefits only imagined a few years ago. But this staggering pace of innovation needs to be tempered with foresight, because product safety cannot be an afterthought with connected devices. Strategies to prevent foreseeable or intentional misuse resulting in product safety hazards must be built into connected systems from the first product concept to the final recycling of the worn out product.
This publication that is a compilation of considerations for designing safer connected devices. It provides technology-neutral best practices to incorporate consumer product safety in the design and deployment of devices, software and systems. These best practices will help ensure that devices and components of devices are designed to prohibit unsafe system actions, command and control critical safety functions, and signal precursors to hazardous events as reliably as possible over the expected lifespan of the system.