Certified iPhone enclosure for Zone 1 hazardous areas

Xshielder builds a certified enclosure that turns a standard iPhone into an IECEx Zone 1 device. Site personnel keep full functionality, the camera, the apps, and the interface they already use, in an area where a standard phone is not permitted because it could provide an ignition source.

Features and benefits

The value is that the workforce does not have to learn a separate rugged device or give up the apps a site already runs for permits, inspections, and data capture. One certified device goes into the hazardous area instead of a second device fleet. Xshielder is a Norwegian company with more than 100 years of collective experience in Ex certification and product engineering behind the enclosure.

Why it is in the Hub

Pulse represents Xshielder in Australia because IECEx is the scheme accepted here under the AS/NZS 60079 series, so an IECEx Zone 1 certification is the right basis for use on a classified WA site rather than a device marked only to the European ATEX directive. For an operator already standardised on iPhones, the advantage is taking that same device into the hazardous area, provided the IECEx certification matches the site's gas group and temperature class.