Just as you say Doug, safety is a major concern.
As long as smartphones and tablets are primarily designed as –look what we can fit into this small box-toys, and professional use is not seriously considered, I suggest anyone should refrain from storing any company confidential information on a smartphone. And dropbox, you may as well “drop” it in the mail”box” the local NSA office (that is where their brand comes from). If their user accounts are not simply hacked……by the Chinese or Russians. I consider all cloud services as plain public domain until proven otherwise. Since I learned that all routers have a backdoor to intercept all data flowing through, I would also refrain data transfer over the internet at all unless encrypted… but someone told me that encryption software also has a backdoor. I know of a cheap tool called RF toolbox running on <brand withhold>, that is actively maintained by the designer, and offers 30-40 tools of the kind you mention. Though more HAM oriented than real EMC. Regards, Ing. Gert Gremmen, BSc Van: Doug Powell [mailto:doug...@gmail.com] Verzonden: Tuesday, February 18, 2014 8:37 AM Aan: EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG Onderwerp: [PSES] Mobile Compliance 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) <http://www.ieee-pses.org/list.html> 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> - ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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>
