A breath alcohol ignition interlock device (sometimes called a BAIID, BIID, IID, alcohol interlock device, or Adult Safety Interlock) is a mechanism similar to a breathalyzer installed in a vehicle's dashboard to prohibit drunk driving.
Independent, 3rd party testing
Element helps breath alcohol ignition interlock device manufacturers meet standards for their products to comply with Federal Register/ Vol. 57 No. 67/ Tuesday, April 7, 1992 Notices NHTSA Docket No. 91-07, Notice 2, and Cenelec EN 50436-1 and -2. Element St. Paul is a nationally recognized, independent testing laboratory with 15 years of experience testing alcohol detection devices.
Interlock quality standards and criteria
Element's BAIID services include evaluating an ignition interlock device's performance against quality standards for the following features or characteristics:
- Unstressed Accuracy
- Sample Free Re-Start
- Breath Sampling
- Data Recording
- Calibration Stability
- Unstressed Utility
- Lockout Evaluation
- Clearance Rate
- Power, High and Low Voltage
- Warm-up Test
- Temperature Extremes
- Display Tests
- Vibration
- Altitude-2.5km
- Cellular RFI Test
- Tampering/Power Loss
- Non-Human sample
- Filtered sample
- Rolling re-test
- Other alcohol detection products