1 WPC Engagement

All companies selling Qi-certified products must be members of the Wireless Power Consortium. All products intended to be sold as Qi-certified must go through the Qi validation, test and certification procedures. Products are not allowed to claim Qi compliance or Qi certification if they do not go through the proper validation and test procedures. Manufacturers of Qi-certified products must be in good standing with the WPC.

For Qi 1.3 products that require authentication, additional measures are also required. An entity that wishes to manufacture products with authentication must be licensed as a Qi-certified manufacturer. Products that need to be authenticated must have an SSS that securely stores the ECC P-256 private key. Devices must be submitted to third parties for evaluation to prove security worthiness, as defined in the WPC Qi 1.3 authentication specification. A corporation that provisions an SSS must be a WPC Qi-licensed manufacturing Certificate Authority. Microchip has several products that meet the requirements of an SSS and the TA100 is one such product. Microchip is a WPC-licensed manufacturing CA.

Note that it is the responsibility of the manufacturer to select an SSS from a Qi-certified provider and the responsibility of the manufacturer CA to verify that a manufacturer is in good standing with the WPC.