[ale] RE: [ale-unemployed] howdy

[James P. Kinney III]

It does happen. For an electronic device to be certified as usable in
the hospital, it's a harder route than getting Mil-spec certified. 

Apparently, there's a lot of stuff that is susceptible to interference
from cell-phone wavelengths (US, don't know about UK). 

Then there's the problem of people stopping what they are doing to
answer the cell phone. There are restaurants that have no cell phone
policies. 

It's pretty easy to shield against. Put some pretty foil wallpaper up
and add a wire along the top of the baseboard to join them all into one,
big metal shield. Add some wire to the aluminum miniblinds and close
them. Cheaper than paneling the building in copper mesh! Metal siding
can work well too.

On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 18:44, Adrin wrote:
> Yeah, I have even read about hospitals putting steal mesh in the walls to
> limit cell phone use.
> 
> Adrin
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Ricker [mailto:kaboom at gatech.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 5:06 PM
> To: unemployed at ale.org
> Subject: RE: [ale-unemployed] howdy
> 
> On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Adrin wrote:
> 
> > Look for your doctors to slowly go to wireless solution in the future.
> Kind
> > of scary, because of the hacking potential, but the average guy doesn't
> even
> > think of that I guess.
> 
> I wouldn't bet on it becoming as common as you might suspect.  There are
> real issues with wireless around hospital equipment due to spectral overlap
> (for the same reason, all hospital docs still use pagers, not cell phones).
> 
> later,
> chris
> 
> 
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