User's Manual

APPENDIX B: SAFETY AND USAGE TIPS 91
Driving
RF energy may affect some electronic systems in motor vehicles, such as car stereo, safety equipment,
etc. Check with your vehicle manufacturer to be sure that the Socket Bluetooth Cordless Hand
Scanner will not affect the vehicle’s electronics.
Aircraft
• Turn off your Socket Bluetooth Cordless Hand Scanner before boarding any aircraft.
• To prevent interference with communications systems, you must not use your Socket Bluetooth
Cordless Hand Scanner while the plane is in the air.
• Do not use it on the ground without permission from the crew.
Radio Frequency Exposure
Your Socket Bluetooth Cordless Hand Scanner contains a radio transmitter and receiver. When in
operation, it communicates with a Bluetooth enabled mobile computer by receiving and transmitting
radio frequency (RF) magnetic fields in the frequency range 2400 to 2483.5 MHz. The output power
of the radio transmitter is 15.75 mW. The Socket Bluetooth Cordless Hand Scanner is designed to be
in compliance with the RF exposure limits set by national authorities and international health
agencies
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when installed or used separately from other antennas or radio transmitters.
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Examples of RF exposure standards and guidelines:
ICNIRP, “Guidelines for limiting exposure to time-varying electric, magnetic, and electromagnetic fields (up to 300 GHz)”,
International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP), Health Physics, vol. 74, pp 494-533, April 1998.
99/519/EC, EU Council Recommendation on the limitation of exposure to the general public to electromagnetic fields 0 Hz
– 300 GHz, Official Journal of the European Communities, July 12, 1999.
ANSI/IEEE C95.1-1992, “Safety levels with respect to human exposure to radio frequency electromagnetic fields, 3 kHz to
300 GHz”, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., New York, 1991.
FCC Report and Order, ET Docket 93-62, FCC 96-326, Federal Communications Commission (FCC), August 1996.
Radiocommunications (Electromagnetic Radiation Human Exposure) Standard 1999, Australian Communications Authority
(ACA), May 1999.