Automatic Vehicle Monitoring Systems

This rule making proceeding adopts rules for the future licensing and continued development of a number of services and equipment using the 902-928 MHz band. In recent years, Automatic Vehicle Monitoring (AVM) systems and unlicensed Part 15 devices have developed and proliferated in this band and are providing services that are valuable and in the public interest. These services range from licensed vehicle location and automatic toll collection systems to unlicensed devices used for utility meter reading and inventory control. The adopted allocation plan for the 902-928 MHz band includes 8 MHz of additional spectrum for AVM services and establishes new provisions for governing the interference obligations of Part 15 and amateur operations in this band. This plan balances the differing operational needs of these varied types of uses so that most AVM systems and Part 15 devices will be able to achieve their service objectives without impeding each other's use of the spectrum. The adopted rules also [[Page 15249]] modify and eliminate outdated regulations that have not kept pace with the technological evolution of AVM and establish a new service, the Location and Monitoring Service (LMS), that both encompasses the old AVM service and future advanced transportation-related services.