The IS-04Z1 is an intrinsically safe Android handset designed for Zone 1 and Zone 21, built for the refineries, petrochemical poles and gas terminals from Porto Marghera to Priolo and Sarroch. It is pre-launch: certification is running now, and Italian teams can test a unit through a fermata while it does.
Launching Q4 2026 · ATEX 2014/34/EU certification programme in progress
ATEX
IECExATEX 2014/34/EU
NEC 500 Class I Div 1IP68Zone 1 / Zone 21
Android 16
Qualcomm SnapdragonItalian classified-area work is concentrated in poli petrolchimici, fenced clusters where refining, petrochemicals, industrial gases and power generation sit inside one perimeter. An unusual share are coastal or insular, and the gas system around them is being rebuilt around imports: the Panigaglia terminal near La Spezia, the floating unit working at Piombino since 2023 and a second off Ravenna from 2025.
Operators and contractors such as Eni, Versalis and Sarlux need an explosion proof mobile phone they can carry into classified areas at Priolo, Melilli and Augusta, Gela and Milazzo. The IS-04Z1 is designed for Zone 1 and Zone 21 duty there.
Two things shape equipment here more than anything on a datasheet: a Mediterranean summer, and how far the site is from anyone who can fix something.
For evaluators in Italy, the IS-04Z1 explosion proof mobile phone is designed around these points: Southern heat and coastal salt; A device you cannot easily replace; Contractor crews under a DUVRI; Italian on the handset and in the box; Gas and dust inside one perimeter; Records made where the observation is.
A Sicilian or Sardinian plant holds summer heat all day, on steelwork by the sea. The ATEX marking target is II 2 G Ex ib IIC T4, IP68 sealing and rugged build cover the salt and the handling, and the ambient range the certificate fixes is published with the datasheet.
When the nearest depot is a ferry crossing away, ruggedness stops being a marketing word. The construction targets aim at surviving the drop onto grating, and the repair and battery route is part of what a partner has to offer here.
A fermata generale runs on appaltatrici and interference risk. Android 16 with EMM and MDM lets handsets be enrolled, restricted to what the site allows and recovered when the crew leaves, so borrowed equipment is controlled.
Android 16 carries an Italian interface, and the manuale d'uso and declaration of conformity are produced in Italian alongside English. Italian sites treat instructions in Italian as part of lawful supply.
Zone 21 dust protection sits in the same certification programme as the gas marking, which is what a polo petrolchimico needs when a solvent unit, a polymer line and a bagging hall share utilities and a gate.
The 50 MP camera with PDAF produces images sharp enough for a verifica record or a work order, and the 4,000 mAh cell is sized for the shift, so a defect is documented at the plant rather than from memory.
D.Lgs. 85/2016 brought the ATEX product directive into Italian law and swept away the old DPR 126/1998, so a notified body certificate is the whole product-side requirement. The duty side is heavier than that suggests, because Titolo XI of D.Lgs. 81/2008 puts the explosion protection document squarely on the datore di lavoro.
The product route is settled and short. D.Lgs. 85/2016 of 19 May 2016 transposed ATEX 2014/34/EU into Italian law and repealed DPR 126/1998, so equipment placed on the market carries a notified body certificate and the CE marking, with no separate Italian approval afterwards. Notification of certification bodies and market surveillance sit with the ministry now called MIMIT. Two practical points follow: instructions have to be supplied in Italian, and Italian buyers working to international specifications very often ask for the IECEx certificate alongside the ATEX one, particularly on sites run by international groups.
The obligations that decide the purchase are in Titolo XI of D.Lgs. 81/2008, headed protection from explosive atmospheres. The datore di lavoro classifies the areas, following the zone definitions in Allegato XLIX and in practice the CEI EN 60079 series with the CEI 31 guides, and records the assessment and the measures in the documento sulla protezione contro le esplosioni, which belongs with the DVR rather than beside it. Above that, a major hazard establishment falls under D.Lgs. 105/2015, the Italian Seveso III decree, where the national inspection plan for upper-tier sites is prepared centrally with ISPRA and inspections are scheduled by the regional technical committee, the CTR, working with the fire service. INAIL sits behind the whole system as insurer, verifier and the source of much of the technical guidance Italian safety professionals work from.
Typical Zone 1 and Zone 21 duty for the IS-04Z1 explosion proof mobile phone in Italy includes: Fermata generale at Priolo or Sarroch; Running a plant with the mainland far away; Terminals, storage and the floating units; Platforms and the terminal off the Veneto coast.
An Italian general shutdown compresses a year of maintenance into a few weeks with contractor crews arriving from outside the region. A Zone 1 handset keeps the work order, the isolation photograph and the sign-off in one system, which is also the record an inspection will ask for later.
In Sardinia and Sicily a spare part is a logistics decision, not a stores request. Equipment a technician can use for a whole shift, in summer, without a second device or a mid-shift charge, removes one of the small dependencies that make island operations expensive.
Panigaglia, the unit at Piombino and the one off Ravenna run classified areas with compact crews and a berth schedule. The value of a hazardous area smartphone there is that the position fix, the check-in and the call to the control room sit on one device instead of three.
Italian offshore work is smaller than the North Sea but no less classified, and the crews are smaller with it. Zone 1 classification, IP68 sealing and four-constellation GNSS matter on a platform where the nearest support is a boat transfer away.
The device has not launched, so nothing below needs a purchase order or a tender. The order lets your technical validation and our certification run together.
Give us the zones, the gas or dust group and the temperature class from your explosion protection document, and whether the users are your own crews, appaltatrici or both. Enquiries reach SAMS Mobile at info@sams-mobile.com.
You receive the specification, the target marking string and a written status for each certification in progress: what an RSPP needs to draft the equipment selection reasoning and an ufficio acquisti needs to open a supplier file.
Evaluation units go to Italian operators and contractors under a trial agreement. A useful trial covers enrolment in your own console, the site photography rules, summer conditions outdoors and a full shift with the camera in use.
On completion of certification, supply runs through an Italian partner or direct, with Italian documentation and an agreed repair route, since work on an intrinsically safe device has to go through a recognised facility. Pre-launch pricing is quoted on request.
Send your site, zone and gas group, and we will answer for your plant rather than in general.
Ask about Italy →No. It is designed to ATEX 2014/34/EU for Zone 1 and Zone 21 and the certification programme is in progress. Launch is planned for Q4 2026, and no unit is supplied for use in a classified area before the certificate covering that use exists.
No. D.Lgs. 85/2016 transposed the directive and repealed DPR 126/1998, so a notified body certificate and the CE marking are the product-side requirement, with notification and market surveillance under the ministry now called MIMIT. Italian instructions and often an IECEx certificate are what buyers add.
There is no list price before launch, and a firm figure for a device still in certification is a reason to ask harder questions. Pre-launch pricing is quoted against a stated quantity, configuration and support scope, which is also the form a tender needs. Evaluation units are issued under a trial agreement.
Usually yes, loosely. Ex proof, exproof and explosion proof are all used for a phone meant for a classified area, but the protection concepts differ: Ex d contains an explosion in a heavy enclosure, while Ex ib limits the energy in the circuit so ignition cannot start. The IS-04Z1 takes the Ex ib route.
Yes. Android 16 carries an Italian interface, and the manuale d'uso, the safe-use instructions and the declaration of conformity are produced in Italian alongside English, because Italian sites treat documentation in Italian as part of lawful supply.
You can draft the entry. The datasheet gives the target marking string, the temperature class and the equipment protection level, so the selection reasoning can be prepared and reviewed. It should not be closed as deployed equipment until the certificate number exists.
Through a partner with real reach, which is why an island service route is a selection criterion for us rather than an afterthought. Repair and battery replacement on an intrinsically safe device have to go through a recognised facility, and exchange time is worth testing during the evaluation.
Tell us the site, the zone and gas group, and roughly how many handsets. The SAMS team replies by email with the datasheet and the certification schedule for Italy. The IS-04Z1 is pre-launch and certification is in progress, so there is no list price yet; indicative pricing is issued in writing against a stated quantity and site.
We are looking for safety and industrial distributors already supplying the petrochemical poles, the gas and regasification operators and the maintenance contractors who serve them, with the service capability Ex equipment requires and genuine coverage of Sicily and Sardinia.
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Buyers look for the IS-04Z1 in Italy in different ways. Each guide below answers one buyer search honestly: what the term means, the route to buy, and where certification stands today.
