ASTM F3463-21
(Guide)Standard Guide for Ensuring the Safety of Connected Consumer Products
Standard Guide for Ensuring the Safety of Connected Consumer Products
SIGNIFICANCE AND USE
4.1 This guide is intended to apply in conjunction with applicable end-product specific performance or design standard requirements to address the overall system safety of a connected consumer product. Designers and manufacturers of a connected consumer product, with assistance from conformity assessment bodies, or others, as deemed desirable, should identify applicable and relevant product standards. They should assess and document if or how connectivity potentially affects the ability of such products to meet overall product-safety requirements, as well as conflicts or requirements, if any, that may or should not be applicable to the connected consumer product. This guide recognizes that the overall system safety of the connected consumer product is the primary objective. Property damage, including non-functionality of the connected consumer product, is only included to the extent that such property damage poses a risk of personal injury. Data security beyond the extent necessary to ensure system safety, or privacy-related issues, are not addressed in this guide although measures to address the protection of personal information may help mitigate connected consumer product safety issues.
4.2 This guide provides guidelines for:
4.2.1 Remote updates;
4.2.2 Software, firmware, and configuration risk management designed to ensure compliance with an end product safety standard and to prevent the creation of an unanticipated hazard from the connected consumer product; and
4.2.3 Cybersecurity risk controls for the software, firmware, and configuration of architecture and design.
SCOPE
1.1 This guide provides guidance for connected consumer products, as defined in 1.1.1, as it relates to physical product safety hazards created by virtue of their connectivity. It applies to connected products that need testing and evaluation to prevent cybersecurity vulnerabilities and weaknesses that could compromise the safety-related performance of the product, create a physical safety hazard in the product or its operation, or result in a noncompliance to the underlying end product safety standard.
1.1.1 Connected consumer product or Internet of Things (IoT) consumer device means any consumer device or physical object that is capable of connecting to the internet or other network, directly or indirectly, and is assigned an internet, Bluetooth, or other communication protocol address or identifier. A non-exhaustive list of examples includes:
1.1.1.1 Connected children’s products such as toys and juvenile products such as baby monitors;
1.1.1.2 Connected safety-related products such as smoke alarms and door locks;
1.1.1.3 Connected TVs and speakers;
1.1.1.4 Wearable connected health trackers and smart apparel;
1.1.1.5 Connected home automation, security or surveillance cameras, and alarm systems;
1.1.1.6 Connected appliances (for example, washing machines and refrigerators); and
1.1.1.7 Connected smart home assistants.
1.2 Safety, for this guide, is defined as the freedom from an unreasonable risk of physical injury or illness resulting from mechanical contact, hazardous energy release, or exposure to hazardous chemicals from the connected product. Physical injury or illness may include burns, lacerations, strains, contusions, suffocation, strangulation, poisoning, disease, seizures, internal injuries, shock, or other injuries to the body. Property damage related to non-functionality of the connected device is only included to the extent that such property damage leads to a safety issue. Safety, for this standard, does not include privacy or personal data security, or physical harms potentially resulting from privacy or personal data breaches.
1.3 This standard does not purport to address all of the safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appropriate safety, health, and environmental practices and deter...
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This international standard was developed in accordance with internationally recognized principles on standardization established in the Decision on Principles for the
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Designation: F3463 − 21
Standard Guide for
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Ensuring the Safety of Connected Consumer Products
This standard is issued under the fixed designation F3463; the number immediately following the designation indicates the year of
original adoption or, in the case of revision, the year of last revision. A number in parentheses indicates the year of last reapproval. A
superscript epsilon (´) indicates an editorial change since the last revision or reapproval.
INTRODUCTION
This guide is intended to provide direction for the design and manufacture of connected consumer
products to help ensure that the connected functionality of such products does not pose physical
hazards to consumers. This guidance should provide considerations for designing connected
functionality that neither poses nor introduces product safety hazards.
The focus of this guide is limited to consumer products.While the Internet ofThings (IoT) presents
one system for connecting products, this proposed guidance also covers other types of network-
connected systems such as Bluetooth, WiFi, or other communication protocols used with consumer
products.
1. Scope 1.1.1.7 Connected smart home assistants.
1.1 This guide provides guidance for connected consumer 1.2 Safety, for this guide, is defined as the freedom from an
products, as defined in 1.1.1, as it relates to physical product unreasonable risk of physical injury or illness resulting from
safety hazards created by virtue of their connectivity. It applies mechanical contact, hazardous energy release, or exposure to
to connected products that need testing and evaluation to hazardous chemicals from the connected product. Physical
prevent cybersecurity vulnerabilities and weaknesses that injury or illness may include burns, lacerations, strains,
could compromise the safety-related performance of the contusions, suffocation, strangulation, poisoning, disease,
product, create a physical safety hazard in the product or its seizures, internal injuries, shock, or other injuries to the body.
operation, or result in a noncompliance to the underlying end Property damage related to non-functionality of the connected
product safety standard. device is only included to the extent that such property damage
1.1.1 Connected consumer product or Internet of Things leads to a safety issue. Safety, for this standard, does not
(IoT) consumer device means any consumer device or physical include privacy or personal data security, or physical harms
object that is capable of connecting to the internet or other potentially resulting from privacy or personal data breaches.
network, directly or indirectly, and is assigned an internet,
1.3 This standard does not purport to address all of the
Bluetooth, or other communication protocol address or identi-
safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the
fier. A non-exhaustive list of examples includes:
responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appro-
1.1.1.1 Connected children’s products such as toys and
priate safety, health, and environmental practices and deter-
juvenile products such as baby monitors;
mine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use.
1.1.1.2 Connected safety-related products such as smoke
1.4 This international standard was developed in accor-
alarms and door locks;
dance with internationally recognized principles on standard-
1.1.1.3 Connected TVs and speakers;
ization established in the Decision on Principles for the
1.1.1.4 Wearable connected health trackers and smart ap-
Development of International Standards, Guides and Recom-
parel;
mendations issued by the World Trade Organization Technical
1.1.1.5 Connected home automation, security or surveil-
Barriers to Trade (TBT) Committee.
lance cameras, and alarm systems;
1.1.1.6 Connected appliances (for example, washing ma-
2. Referenced Documents
chines and refrigerators); and
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2.1 Federal Standard:
15 USC 2025(a)(5) Consumer Product Safety Act
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This guide is under the jurisdiction of ASTM Committee F15 on Consumer
Products and is the direct responsibility of Subcommittee F15.75 on Connected
Products.
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Current edition approved Sept. 1, 2021. Published November 2021. Originally Available from U.S. Government Printing Office, Superintendent of
approved in 2020. Last previous edition approved in 2020 as F3463 – 20. DOI: Documents, 732 N. Capitol St., NW, Washington, DC 20401-0001, http://
10.1520/F3463-21. www.access.gpo.gov.
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Designation: F3463 − 20 F3463 − 21
Standard Guide for
1
Ensuring the Safety of Connected Consumer Products
This standard is issued under the fixed designation F3463; the number immediately following the designation indicates the year of
original adoption or, in the case of revision, the year of last revision. A number in parentheses indicates the year of last reapproval. A
superscript epsilon (´) indicates an editorial change since the last revision or reapproval.
INTRODUCTION
This guide is intended to provide direction for the design and manufacture of connected consumer
products to help ensure that the connected functionality of such products does not pose physical
hazards to consumers. This guidance should provide considerations for designing connected
functionality that neither poses nor introduces product safety hazards.
The focus of this guide is limited to consumer products. While the Internet of Things (IoT) presents
one system for connecting products, this proposed guidance also covers other types of network-
connected systems such as Bluetooth, WiFi, or other communication protocols used with consumer
products.
1. Scope
1.1 This guide provides guidance for connected consumer products, as defined in 1.1.1, as it relates to physical product safety
hazards created by virtue of their connectivity. It applies to connected products that need testing and evaluation to prevent
cybersecurity vulnerabilities and weaknesses that could compromise the safety-related performance of the product, create a
physical safety hazard in the product or its operation, or result in a noncompliance to the underlying end product safety standard.
1.1.1 Connected consumer product or Internet of Things (IoT) consumer device means any consumer device or physical object
that is capable of connecting to the internet or other network, directly or indirectly, and is assigned an internet, Bluetooth, or other
communication protocol address or identifier. A non-exhaustive list of examples includes:
1.1.1.1 Connected children’s toys;products such as toys and juvenile products such as baby monitors;
1.1.1.2 Connected safety-related products such as smoke alarms and door locks;
1.1.1.3 Connected TVs and speakers;
1.1.1.4 Wearable connected health trackers and smart apparel;
1.1.1.5 Connected home automation, security or surveillance cameras, and alarm systems;
1.1.1.6 Connected appliances (for example, washing machines and refrigerators); and
1.1.1.7 Connected smart home assistants; andassistants.
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This guide is under the jurisdiction of ASTM Committee F15 on Consumer Products and is the direct responsibility of Subcommittee F15.75 on Connected Products.
Current edition approved Sept. 15, 2020Sept. 1, 2021. Published October 2020November 2021. Originally approved in 2020. Last previous edition approved in 2020 as
F3463 – 20. DOI: 10.1520/F3463-20.10.1520/F3463-21.
Copyright © ASTM International, 100 Barr Harbor Drive, PO Box C700, West Conshohocken, PA 19428-2959. United States
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1.1.1.8 Connected baby monitors.
1.2 Safety, for this guide, is defined as the freedom from an unreasonable risk of physical injury or illness resulting from
mechanical contact, hazardous energy release, or exposure to hazardous chemicals from the connected product. Physical injury or
illness may include burns, lacerations, strains, contusions, suffocation, strangulation, poisoning, disease, seizures, internal injuries,
shock, or other injuries to the body. Property damage related to non-functionality of the connected device is only included to the
extent that such property damage leads to a safety issue. Safety, for this standard, does not include privacy or personal data security,
or physical harms potentially resulting from privacy or personal data breaches.
1.3 The values stated in SI units are to be regarded as standard. No other units of measurement are included in this standard.
1.3 This standard does not purport to address all of the safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the responsibility
of the user of this standard to establish appropriate safety, health, and environmental practices and determine the applicability of
regulatory limitations prior to use.
1.4 This international standard was developed in accordance with internationally recognized principles on standardization
established in the Decision on Principles for the Development of International Standards, Guides and Recommendations issued
by the World Trade Organization Technical
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