Enhancing Safety by Using Jammers
Jammers can be used to address safety issues. In many jurisdictions, fire code regulations require that mobile phones must be switched “off” in any area that has a potentially explosive atmosphere. This includes gas stations, where sparks could cause an explosion or fire. These preventable accidents occur more frequently than most people are aware.
Areas where mobile phone use is prohibited include:
- Gas Stations and Gas Transportation Vehicles
- Oil Refineries and Storage Facilities, and Offshore Oil Platforms
- Chemical Refineries and Storage Facilities, and Chemical Transportation Vehicles
- Laboratories
- Fireworks Factories
- Liquefied Petroleum (LPG) Refineries and Storage Facilities, and LPG Transportation Vehicles
- Natural Gas Refineries and Storage facilities, and Natural Gas Transportation Vehicles
- Power Plants
- Other Industrial Plants (anywhere the air contains chemicals or particles, such as grain, dust, or metal powders)
- Hospitals
Low power cell phone jammers can be used in all the listed areas for safety reasons.
August 5th, 2008 at 6:45 am
These “safety” devices could actually have fatal consequences if someone was prevented from using their mobile phone in an emergency because it was being jammed.
For portable devices, there is a risk of disruption to legitimate services by someone inadvertently (or deliberately) leaving the unit on as they travel around, thus creating a moving black spot which would be very difficult to trace.
In emergency situations, the delay caused by such a black spot could kill.