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No Health Threat

From Smart Meters

by

Klaus Bender. PE

Director of Standards & Engineering

Utilities Telecom Council

As utilities seek to modernize their aging infrastructure and upgrade to a “smart” electric grid, wireless

communications will play an ever increasingly important role in the facilitating these enhancements.

Several consumer groups have raised concerns about the potential health effects of a two way

communications device, the next generation electric meter or smart meter, on their homes.

This article provides a brief review of the safety standards dealing with radio frequency energy and

safety and shows that smart utility devices pose no health threat. We compare other household wireless

devices to smart meters to show the energy from a meter is actually less than commonly used devices.

Smart grid deployments use devices that fall into the same category as many wireless devices found in

the home, such as wireless routers used for internet connectivity and wireless baby monitors. And

unlike the laptop or WiFi router in the home that are always transmitting, smart meters transmit for

only a fraction of the day for short durations.

Introduction

Smart Grid is a transformed electricity transmission and distribution network or "grid" that uses robust

two‐way communications, advanced sensors, and distributed computers to improve the efficiency,

reliability and safety of power delivery and use. Deploying the Smart Grid became the policy of the

United States with passage of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (Title 13). The Smart

Grid is also being promoted by the European Union and other nations.

The smart grid will rely on the use of radio frequencies to provide wireless connectivity to the various

components of the new electric distribution system. Wireless communications technology has become

ubiquitous in our lives, enabling mobile connectivity with cell phones, wireless internet services and

home area networking with WiFi technology and even cooking our food with microwave ovens. Yet

No Health Threat from Smart Meters

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Excerpted from the Fourth Quarter 2010 Issue of the UTC JOURNAL. Copyright © 2010 Utilities Telecom Council. All Rights Reserved.

there are unsubstantiated concerns that the smart meters being installed around the country and the

world will cause ill health effects to members of the household where the meters are installed.

Therefore, we examine the facts about the impact of radio frequency energy on the body, showing that

the devices utilities seek to install pose no threat of harm to humans. We show that the type of radio

energy used and emitted by smart meters, cell phone, wireless routers and microwave ovens can only

damage the body at extremely high levels. While research continues into long term effects, there has

been no conclusive evidence that low level RF energy has a long term negative impact. We concentrate

on RF energy and acknowledge that electric meters are connected to the power system and

unauthorized tampering or dismantling an electric meter could pose electric shock danger to anyone

coming in direct contact with energized electric conductors.

Federal Jurisdiction for Safety of Radio Frequency Devices

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has jurisdiction over the approval and use of radio

frequency devices, whether a license is required for the devices or if unlicensed operation is allowed.

FCC regulations are based on standards set by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)

based on years of research by health professionals. The FCC has a twofold role in ensuring safety. First,

the FCC has allocated the radio spectrum into a variety of pieces, most of which need coordination and a

license before operation is permitted. Examples of this include television, satellite and radio broadcast

channels, a variety of cellular and personal communications service frequencies, and microwave

frequencies that transmit huge amounts of information from one point to another using dish style

antennas. At the same time, the FCC has allocated some frequencies for unlicensed operation, allowing

consumers to purchase products at Best Buy or Wal‐Mart and install them in their homes. These devices

operate at low power levels, enabling communications but posing no threat of health effects to humans.

Examples include the WiFi routers already discussed, wireless baby monitors and garage door openers.

>While research continues into long term effects, there has

been no conclusive evidence that low level RF energy has a long term negative impact. We concentrate

on RF energy and acknowledge that electric meters are connected to the power system and

unauthorized tampering or dismantling an electric meter could pose electric shock danger to anyone

coming in direct contact with energized electric conductors.

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Every pro-‘smart’ technology proponent – be it manufacturer, supplier, utility or Public Utility Commission – invariably likes to trot out ‘safety’ studies done 50 or more years ago on the then emerging radar technology that was considered ‘safe’. Why? Furthermore, what does that apparent ‘conspiracy’ say about keeping current and up to date on the very real science of how non-ionizing radiofrequencies (RFs) and electromagnetic frequencies (EMFs) cause harm to humans – the brain, in particular – and especially, children’s brains and bodies?

Didn’t military studies in the 1950s and 1960s expose microwave radiation health hazards? You betcha!

Well, recently the citizens’ ad hoc committee PASMA put out a Press Release, which addresses that very issue: RF/EMF radiation. I have permission to cite it verbatim; it’s listed below. Certainly, the information imparted there should cause every parent to become concerned about those ‘smart’ technology devices and the harm they are causing their children, especially 24/7/365 “dirty electricity” from AMI Smart Meters for electricity, natural gas and water utilities.

A real and pressing concern should be about Wi-Fi in schools and the workplace, which increasingly is being implicated in migraine headaches and numerous other sorts of health anomalies. Young children are particularly vulnerable. I’ll let the PASMA Press Release speak for itself:

WHY ARE THE PA PUC AND PA UTILITY COMPANIES, INCLUDING THE PA STATE LEGISLATURE, EXPOSING PENNSYLVANIA’S CHILDREN TO POSSIBLE BRAIN CANCER?

Pennsylvania’s children are being subjected to excessive electromagnetic frequencies in cell phones, Wi-Fi, and other “smart” gadgets that function by using radiofrequencies.

Dr. Mary Redmayne, of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, published the paper “International policy and advisory response regarding children’s exposure to radio frequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF)” in the journal Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine, 2015; 1 DOI: 10.3109/15368378.2015.1038832, in which she advises, “[U]sing and storing a device at least 20cm away from the body, and when using devices offline then to put them in flight mode, turn Wi-Fi off at night, and to avoid keeping devices in the bedroom.”

https://www.activistpost.com/2015/07/smart-meters-wi-fi-and-cell-phones-can.html