Ilya Tsimerinov
Principal, Gatewell Group — FCC Covered List, equipment authorization, and origin evidence for connected hardware
Principal, Gatewell Group — FCC Covered List, equipment authorization, and origin evidence for connected hardware
I am the principal of Gatewell Group, a Los Angeles firm working the US restrictions on foreign-produced connected hardware — the FCC Covered List and the import, marketing and authorization rules that now govern drones, routers, power inverters and robotic devices. I work both sides of that gate: Conditional Approval filings for manufacturers in Korea, Taiwan, Japan and Europe, and origin-evidence diligence for the US importers, distributors, EPCs and project developers who buy from them. I authored the Gatewell Protocol for Origin Evidence, an open documentation standard for what "sufficient evidence" of non-covered origin actually looks like, and I maintain a public register of every Conditional Approval the Commission has published. I filed comments in FCC dockets PS 26-184 and PS...