[PSES] Mobile Compliance

[Doug Powell]

‎All, In addition to managing email and calendar, I have taken steps to actively use my smartphone while doing compliance work.  Theoretically this could include a number of ideas for Product Safety and EMC. I believe many folks now use memory cards to store standards in PDF form for handy access, but I'm now thinking about doing a little more than that. For example, I am doing some consulting and I have saved an XLS spreadsheet in my dropbox folders for time tracking, quoting  and few other other administrative tasks. I can access these equally from my notebook computer and my smartphone. One advantage of the smartphone is its always running and I don't have wake up my notebook computer to update some bit of information. I have an HDMI Port for presentations and video. I also have the ability to print forms over WiFi from my smartphone.  With 32GB of memory, there's plenty of room to store files (I know, security is a concern and I am constantly aware of theft issues).   I have considered doing some compliance engineering tools which can be run as a spreadsheet on a mobile device.  ‎Some basic examples might include lookup tables, quantity conversions, field strength conversions, interpolate antenna distances, altitude corrections, wire gauge, and spacings determination.  ‎  Is this something compliance professionals are doing now or have considered for the future?  ‎And are smartphones, notebooks, tablets or possibly thumb drives preferred? Please, no discussion about brand loyalty (Apple, Android, BlackBerry, Samsung, etc.). Thanks, - doug Douglas Powell http://www.linkedin.com/in/dougp01   - ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <emc-p...@ieee.org> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieee-pses.org/emc-pstc.html Attachments are not permitted but the IEEE PSES Online Communities site at http://product-compliance.oc.ieee.org/ can be used for graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://www.ieee-pses.org/list.html (including how to unsubscribe) List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas <emcp...@radiusnorth.net> Mike Cantwell <mcantw...@ieee.org> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher <j.bac...@ieee.org> David Heald <dhe...@gmail.com>