Are there industrial / commercial applications for EMF / RF surveys?
Yes, in cases of worker safety and concerns, equipment interference from EMI (Electromagnetic Interference) and with the increasing adoption of RFID (Radio Frequency Identification), Bluetooth, and other wireless information services there is a rising need for proper mapping and awareness of electromagnetic energies which permeate our working / living spaces. Also, certain types of equipment such as scanning tunneling electron microscopes (STM) used in nanotech are very sensitive to magnetic fields due to the nature of their focusing mechanism. RF interference can also occur in industrial settings such as a semiconductor fab plant with many machines generating excessive RF which can damage or interfere with computer controls. EMC (Electromagnetic Compatibility) dictates design issues with EMI in order to ensure smooth, error free operation when multiple machines are emitting energy fields which could conflict with each other. Radio frequency interference, RFI, is any undesirable electr
