US Hardware Startup — Reference Books

FCC Authorization for Hardware Startups — The Book

The reference you keep open while you work — not a video you have to scrub back through. The same curriculum as the Krono Labs FCC Authorization course, in a format you can read in one sitting, search in seconds, and return to mid-project. Covers the regulatory framework, authorization pathways, pre-compliance design, the testing process, FCC ID and labeling, modular approval, post-market obligations, and the complete application package.

FCC Cyber Trust Mark & IoT Security for the US Market — The Book

The reference you keep open while you work — not a video course you have to scrub back through. The same curriculum as the Krono Labs FCC Cyber Trust Mark course, restructured for the way compliance engineers, hardware developers, and product managers actually use reference material: search it mid-project, read a specific chapter when a requirement comes up, return to the action plan when you're building your certification timeline. Covers the complete US IoT regulatory landscape — FCC, NIST, Executive Orders, and the IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act — through the full Cyber Trust Mark programme architecture and all ten NIST IR 8425 cybersecurity outcomes. Includes detailed implementation guidance for unique default credentials, TLS configuration, secure boot, firmware signing, SBOM generation, and coordinated vulnerability disclosure. Walks through the CyberLAB testing process, the CLA application package, the national registry requirements, and post-authorization obligations. Concludes with a practical global compliance strategy comparing the US Cyber Trust Mark, UK PSTI Act 2022, and EU RED Delegated Regulation 2022/30 across every major technical and non-technical requirement.

US Lithium Battery Shipping Compliance: A Practical Guide for Hardware Sellers

A hardware seller ships five undeclared lithium-ion batteries through a major carrier. No dangerous goods declaration, no lithium battery mark, no Class 9 label. The package sits in a sorting facility before it starts emitting smoke and flame. This isn't hypothetical — it's a real 2025 FAA enforcement case, and it cost that company sixty thousand dollars in federal penalties alone. This book exists to make sure that specific, entirely preventable failure never happens to you. It walks through UN38.3 testing and its eight required tests, DOT and PHMSA's 49 CFR classification and packaging rules, and IATA's Dangerous Goods Regulations — including the newly mandatory January 2026 thirty-percent state-of-charge rule — from first principles to complete practical compliance: watt-hour and lithium-content thresholds, packing instructions and the post-2022 Section II changes, marking and labeling, the Shipper's Declaration for Dangerous Goods, and the distinct rules governing ground, air, ocean, and USPS shipment. From there, the book covers damaged, defective, and recalled battery handling, large batteries and e-bikes under the new state-of-charge rule, hazmat employee training obligations, PHMSA registration thresholds, three real 2025 FAA enforcement cases with their actual fine amounts, and a complete worked compliance walkthrough for a power bank hardware startup. Extended chapters cover supplier due diligence, building a repeatable compliance process, e-commerce platform policies including Amazon FBA's hazmat review, customs and import considerations, insurance implications, contract manufacturer agreements, working with freight forwarders and third-party logistics providers, international returns, and certification confusions between UN38.3 and CE, UL, or FCC marks. Every chapter closes with a knowledge check drawn from the companion video course, a full worked compliance walkthrough ties every requirement together end to end, and eight appendices turn the book's worksheets into templates you can put to work on your own product catalog immediately. This book contains the use of artificial intelligence.