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    What True Offline Working With iCertifi Means for Your Electrical Contracting Business     With data breaches, data loss and privacy scandals, many Electrical contractors are becoming more concerned about the security of [...]

  The Benefits of Not Storing Our Electrician's User Data       App Privacy With data breaches and privacy scandals, many Electrical Contractors are becoming more concerned about the security of their personal information. [...]

Solar PV Test Report New Solar PV Test Report Certificate Feature in iCertifi     We are excited to announce the release of a new Solar PV Test Report feature in iCertifi! Easily generate and [...]

  iCertifi V12.11.19 - Coming May 2023!   One profession that can benefit significantly from speech-to-text technology is Electrical Contracting for filling out electrical certificates.  Utilising speech-to-text technology, iCertifi has once again streamlined and sped [...]

  One of the many benefits of iCertifi being a native Apple app is its integration with iCloud and its automated iCloud backup of your electrical certificates.    Automatic backup: With iCloud, your device will [...]

THE VAULT iCertifi's EICR Assistant    Builds on our long standing searchable database of commonly used EICR observations. We now have nearly 500 hundred scenarios and pre-defined observations that include reference and a suggested EICR [...]

BS 7671:2018+A2:2022 Amendment 2   With the introduction of BS 7671:2018+A2:2022 Amendment 2, this blog aims to review the changes, incorporate them into inspection and testing procedures, and then implement them. Within the regulations, revisions [...]

Amendment 2 of the 18th edition (BS 7671:2018+A2:2022) brings in quite a few changes for electrical certification.    Some of the changes include:   A new requirement for Arc Fault Detection Devices (AFDDs) in some [...]

Electric Vehicle Charging Risk Assessment   With the rapid pace of development in the electric vehicle (EV) sector, and New homes and buildings in England will be required by law to install electric vehicle charging [...]

From personalization to performance, familiarity and flexibility   There are plenty of reasons to love iCertifi being a native electrical app Native apps bring so many benefits   We believe the Apple ecosystem is the [...]

Apple has released iOS 13 and we have updated iCertifi iCertifi now natively supports new Dark Mode.  A great new viewing experience especially in low-light environments or at night.   We have also added the option [...]

  EICR reports can be long and complex for anyone other than Electrical Engineers to interpret. With iCertifi 10.9.7 Electrical Contractors can give customers an easy to understand certificate with a new EICR presentation certificate [...]

iCertifi 10.9.4 brings a new improved EICR electrical reporting Now when marking an Inspection Schedule observations in Part N as C1, C2, C3, FI, iCertifi will note this and offer it to paste directly into [...]

Electrical Isolation Certificate Included with iCertifi Often Electrical Contractors need to issue isolation certificates when isolating electrical equipment that others have to work on or to prove safe isolation. An isolation certificate provides the details [...]

Distribution Board Template In iCertifi 10.4   Electricians can create a pre-filled db board that can be reused in iCertifi 10.4 or above. Speed up workflow and save hours of BS 7671 electrical form filling by [...]

iCertifi V10 and Above Earthing and Bonding Electrical Certificate Often electrical installations require earthing upgrades, to allow them to comply with BS 7671 (as amended).  With so much importance placed on suitable earthing for electrical installations, we [...]

iCertifi 18th Edition Coming Friday, November 30th       Get Ready    iCertifi V9 Updated for 18th Edition, will be released Friday 30 November   After you update, all saved certs will be 18th [...]

Organisation wide collaboration. If you have electrical engineers frequently sending electrical certificates to the office or your Qualified Supervisor is getting inundated with emailed BS 7671 electrical certs, you might want to upload all certificates to a common shared folder to [...]

3 Circuit Minor Works Electrical Certificate Minor Works Certificate For Up To 3 Circuits     The Minor Electrical Installation Works Certificate (commonly called the Minor Works Certificate or  MWC) was first introduced in 1993.  [...]

iCertifi V8.3 Is Out Now bringing a new dual RCD saving facility and a new EICR traffic light system Electrical certification gets even more productive with iCertifi Split Load RCD Testing  With 27 million homes in [...]

The 18th Edition Of The Wiring Regulations will be issued July 2018 & Is Intended To Come Into Effect 1st January 2019.    [flipclock countdown="true" date="1st July 2018" face="days" name="countdown"]   Installations designed after 31st [...]

Today’s Electricians are spending more time on their smartphones using native apps. These are fast replacing bulky and cumbersome books.  iCertifi apps for electricians & gas engineers are enabling contracts and electrical work to progress more smoothly, quickly and [...]

On 6th April 2014 that an official Government approved register was finalised finally ending the confusion about insurance and work guarantees that surrounded third party electrical work sign offs.  The bodies that have been authorised to [...]

Our New iPhone & iPad App Verifi, The Electrical Test Instrument Log Book and Accuracy Record Is Out Now   To maintain confidence in the accuracy of all test instruments used for electrical installation testing, those [...]

Your iCertifi  Filing Cabinet  It is useful to think of your iCertifi Filing Cabinet as "certificates in progress" rather than a permanent storage solution.  Certificates are kept in raw data form and generate dynamically each time you view your electrical certificate.  This [...]

iCertifi V7.2 iCertifi is ready for the new iPhone X and more    The iPhone X release date is Friday, November 3 and iCertifi will be ready and optimised on launch.     The highly [...]

        Lighting Calculator   The new Thorn Eco Lighting Calculator Integrated directly within iCertifi calculates the amount of light fittings required to light a room to a required lux level and total lumens per room to [...]

BSI is inviting comments on the new 18 Edition Wiring Regulations   To be able to review and comment on BS 7671:2018 18th Edition of The IET Wiring Regulations, you need register on the BSI website [...]

iCertifi Now Contains An Electrical Danger Notice iCertifi 6.0 brings an advanced new electrical certificate         Unique to iCertifi in version 6.0, our new Electrical Danger Notice allows electrical contractors to add images [...]

Smart Fill Save Time With Prefilled Electrical Certificates          Prefilled Electrical Certificates     Smart fill is an intelligent pre fill engine that dynamically fills out common values based on the electrical certificate you [...]

  iCertifi Sticker Pack for Electrical Contractors Hand Crafted Unique Stickers To Use In iMessage        In iOS 10, you can use apps with iMessage to decorate messages with stickers, share electricians items without leaving [...]

iCertifi V9 is a huge update for Electrical Contractors Advanced new features for electrical certification        Meet C.H.I.P  Certificate High Intelligence Protocol     C.H.I.P Is Our New Intelligent Assistance Engine & Your Electrical Testing [...]

iCertifi's advanced PAT testing app has been updated on the iTunes Appstore.   We have made a couple of useful changes to our PAT testing app based on feedback from our users.   Pat test engineers [...]

Recently we were approached by Network Rail to streamline and standardise their BS7671 electrical certification throughout the UK's railway infrastructure. Network Rail is the owner and manager of most of the rail network in England, Scotland [...]

  Fast Calc the electrical calculator by iCertifi provides instant electricians calculations on your iPhone,  Mac and Apple Watch. No data connection is required to use Fast Calc so it can be used anywhere.     […]

Backup & Restore  works by saving the last backup of any device on your account to the cloud. This allows electricians to quickly and efficiently backup & restore electrical certificates to a current device or other […]

Customers like to know when their tradesman are going to arrive without waiting in all day. It’s easy to let customers know when your going to arrive and it’s as simple a sending a text. […]

iCertifi Gas Edition boiler manufacturer manuals can be easily accessed while carrying out gas inspections and certification directly from the app. Manuals can be browsed at time while certifying gas installations without interrupting your workflow.  Boiler […]

We recently had a side project to address the micro jitter when using hand held a gimbal with the iPhone. We created Symphony.  Symphony allows the gimbal to do the stabilising without the iPhone’s own […]

iCertifi now allows you to create high quality demo videos as you work in real time Every tap swipe and  is captured and saved to your saved to your iPhone or IPad. Ideal for Electrical Trainers, […]

We have made a few improvements to iCertifi with version 5.8.5   iCertifi no longer deletes the circuit number when editing (useful for 3 phase circuits) If user has elected to set all boxes to […]

BS7671 Electrical Watch App   iCertifi's Apple Watch app features useful items for electrical contractors including instant calculations and reference tools     pfc Calculator   Enter Ze value, press firmly on the Watch screen.  pfc is [...]

In another first, iCertifi offers thermal imaging by attaching a FLIRONE to the lightning port of your iPhone or IPad.    Thermal Images are saved directly to your iOS device and can be added to […]

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