# 6.2 Sensory input processing, ISO 42102

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  6.2 Clause

  

# Sensory input processing

  The group covers what the system takes in from the world: images, video, sound, text, sensor signals and other observations. The description is meant to say which inputs are supported, under what conditions, and what happens when the input is outside them.

  
- capabilities group

- ISO/IEC DIS 42102

- Last updated: 2026-10-22

  
    

## What this settles

Input is where many failures begin and where vendor claims are vaguest. A system that works on clean scanned text may fail on a photograph, a dialect, a noisy room or a damaged sensor, and the capability claim rarely says so.

    

## Who it binds

The organisation, as a method choice. Where the input is personal data, accessibility or safety relevant, the duties come from those regimes and need their own assessment.

    

## What to do in your practice

Record the supported input envelope: formats, languages, resolutions, noise levels and lighting. Then record the behaviour outside it, including rejection and human fallback. Test the edges, not only the centre.

    

## Evidence an auditor or regulator asks for

      Three artefacts that make this unit checkableAn input envelope with formats, languages and environmental limits.States the conditions the claim depends on.
An edge-case test set and its results.Shows the behaviour outside the centre.
A rejection and fallback note.Proves the system fails visibly rather than silently.

    Ask your teamWhat input would a real user present that our test set has never seen, and what happens then?

    

## Common gaps this page catches

- The input envelope is undocumented, so users assume any format works.

- Only clean sample data is tested, and the failure appears in production.

- Out-of-envelope input is accepted silently and produces a confident wrong answer.

    

## What to prepare before publication

Collect 50 real-world edge inputs from users and run them through the system. Publish the envelope with the capability claim.

    

## How to test it here

Take one live system rather than a template, find the field or sentence where Sensory input processing is used, and put this page beside it. Record the answer, the artefact and the date. A glossary entry on its own is an intention; a dated record beside a live artefact is evidence.

    

## What this page does not claim

The page does not reproduce the draft, does not know the descriptor wording that the public preview withholds, and does not certify the system or the organisation. It states the unit at the claim level "capabilities group" and stops where the public record stops.

    

## Common questions

    What does Sensory input processing mean in ISO/IEC DIS 42102?
The group covers what the system takes in from the world: images, video, sound, text, sensor signals and other observations. The description is meant to say which inputs are supported, under what conditions, and what happens when the input is outside them.
What evidence should we keep for 6.2?
An input envelope with formats, languages and environmental limits. An edge-case test set and its results.
Is Sensory input processing a requirement?
No. The draft is a descriptive framework. It sets no management system requirement and no conformity test. It becomes binding only when a contract, a regulator or a management system adopts it.

    

## Related units

    
- 6 AI system capabilities dimension

- 6.1 General

- 5.4 Machine learning

- 7.3 Characterization framework of AI system methods and capabilities

  

  
    
      

## Source and claim

      ISO/IEC DIS 42102, Clause 6.2, Sensory input processing

      Open the ISO public entry

      https://www.iso.org/standard/86898.html

      Retrieved 22 October 2026.

      The heading is in the public preview; the descriptor body is not.

    

    
      

## The record

      Stage 40.60, Close of voting, recorded 8 September 2026.

      Planning date 16 September 2027, an estimate. See the basis.

      The draft record · How it is built

    

    
      

## Check your own system

      Build the method and capability matrix from ten answers and see which cells still need evidence.

      Run the free check

    

  

Nothing here is guessed while you wait. Every line is written from the public ISO record and the public preview, and points to the exact clause it came from. How the record is built.

Last updated: 2026-10-22 · Markdown version · Check your system

Source: https://iso-42102-revision-checker.theartofservice.com/capabilities/sensory-input-processing/