Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS)

BIS is the National Standards Body of India working under the aegis of the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution.
It is established by the Bureau of Indian Standards Act, 1986 which came into effect on 23 December 1986.
The organization was formerly the Indian Standards Institution (ISI), set up under the Resolution of the Department of Industries and Supplies in September 1946.
The ISI was registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860.
A new Bureau of Indian standard (BIS) Act 2016 has been brought into force with effect from 12 October 2017.
The Act establishes the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) as the National Standards Body of India.

[A] Digital television receivers

BIS has published an Indian Standard IS 18112:2022 Speciﬁcation for television with built in satellite tuners.
TVs manufactured as per this Indian standard would enable reception of Free-To-Air TV and Radio channels just by connecting a dish antenna.
This would facilitate transmission of knowledge about government initiatives, schemes, and educational content of Doordarshan and repository of Indian culture programs.
At present, TV viewers in the country need to purchase set-top box for viewing various paid and free channels.

BIS has published Indian standard IS/IEC 62680-1-3:2022 USB Type-C® Cable and Connector Speciﬁcation.
This Indian standard is adoption of existing International standard IEC 62680-1- 3:2022.
This standard provides requirements for USB Type-C port, plug and cables for use in various electronic devices like mobile phone, laptop, notebook etc.
This standard would provide common charging solutions for the smartphones and other electronic devices sold in the country.
This would facilitate in reduction in number of charger per consumer as consumers will no longer need to buy diﬀerent chargers or generate e-waste.

BIS, through its technical committee on Alarms and Electronic Security Systems has developed a series of Indian Standard (IS 16910) on Video Surveillance Systems for use in Security Applications.
IS 16910 series of Standards is an adoption of the International Standard IEC 62676 series.
It provides a detailed outline of all the aspects of a VSS System such as requirements for its components like camera devices, interfaces, system requirements and tests to ascertain the image quality of the camera devices.
This will also help in making the surveillance system more secure, robust and cost effective.