 yaffs in action yaffs in action admin 14 june 2017 716pm android phones were early adopters of yaffs providing a huge international testbed increasing exposure and confidence in the robustness of yaffs in turn this attracted many customers who particularly value robustness and now yaffs is used in many highreliability areas such as aerospace and critical infrastructure it wouldn t be surprising if yaffs hadn t already been part of your day today making a cup of coffee yaffs is used in the process controllers that pump and refine the water and the electricity or gas used to heat the water using the internet many of the routers and other equipment use yaffs if they stopped working you d probably not be reading this page used a phone well some phones use yaffs yaffs is also used in cell towers telephone exchanges video phones video codecs without yaffs you wouldn t even get a dial tone flying somewhere yaffs is used in planes both pilot information systems and cabin systems it is also used in point of sale equipment and public information systems eg passenger information systems watching a movie on tv well first off yaffs is used in the movie production equipment cameras and monitors as well as synthesizers and digital musical instruments used to make the soundtrack yaffs is used in tv broadcast equipment and set top boxes that get the movie to your tv then lastly yaffs is used in some tvs or sound systems driving on a road lots of data was needed to build that road and yaffs gets involved all the way yaffs is used in the gpss laser scanners and total stations modern day theodolites used to gather the data this data then goes back to the office for design then gets sent back out to automated yaffspowered construction equipment laser and gps guided graders pavers etc to make accurately built roads which are safer and last longer it s used in keeping you safe in building security and in building monitoring in food security and safety systems and in the provision of the emergency services people and companies trust yaffs to be reliable  