Smart Meters - Public Service Commission

already eliminated all possible wireless exposures from their property and
lives, may now face excessively high RF exposures in their homes from
smart meters. This may force limitations on use of their otherwise occupied
space, depending on how the meter is located, building materials in the
structure, and how it is furnished.
RESULTS, FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS
The installation of wireless ‘smart meters’ in California can produce
significantly high levels of radiofrequency radiation (RF) depending on
many factors (location of meter(s) in relation to occupied or usable space,
duty cycle or frequency of RF transmissions, reflection and re-radiation of
RF, multiple meters at one location, collector meters, etc).
Power transmitters that will relay information from appliances inside
buildings with wireless smart meters produce high, localized RF pulses.
Any appliance that contains a power transmitter (for example, dishwashers,
washers, dryers, ranges and ovens, convection ovens, microwave ovens,
flash water heaters, refrigerators, etc) will create another ‘layer of RF
signals’ that may cumulatively increase RF exposures from the smart
meter(s).
It should be emphasized that no single assertion of compliance can
adequately cover the vast number of site-specific conditions in which smart
meters are installed. These site-specific conditions determine public
exposures and thus whether they meet FCC compliance criteria.