Question on water meters that use a transmitter to send to remote reader

My town is installing water meters that can be read remotely. I would
like to refuse and need some documentation regarding the negative
effects of a the sending of radio waves on the human body.

Does anybody have a good recourse that I could use?

Thanks Mike G

Mike wrote:
> My town is installing water meters that can be read remotely. I would
> like to refuse and need some documentation regarding the negative
> effects of a the sending of radio waves on the human body.

Hmmm, does anyone know for a fact that they react badly to
such things? Do these meters transmit continuously? It
would seem that they would only need to transmit for a
split second, once per month.

I've never noticed myself reacting badly to my wireless
garage door opener, and I would think the technology
would be similar.

Marc

I think the best might be bioInitiative.org. Also microwaveNews.

FYI we now have a wireless water meter at my house. There are different
types. I was a bit worried but really am not able to detect it with a meter
unless within a few feet of the sidewalk. It does make me not want to be
on the sidewalk.

Conceivably the signal could travel on the water pipe into the house, but
I could not detect that either.

Bill

On Nov 25, 2007 9:29 AM, Mike <[hidden email]> wrote:


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Actually a lot of them transmit about once a second every second, 24/7
(like what we have which is called a 'firefly').
On some of them that can be adjusted.

The carrier frequencies can be lower than cell phones. But I do believe
I was very affected by a 400 MHz transmitter pulsing twice per second
(but it was strong and not too far away-- I measured 2 V/m, which the
water meter transmitters here are much less than).


On Nov 25, 2007 9:58 AM, Marc Martin <[hidden email]> wrote:


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Bill Bruno wrote:
> Actually a lot of them transmit about once a second every second, 24/7
> (like what we have which is called a 'firefly').

Boy, that's really a stupid design -- transmit every second
for something that really only needs to transmit 6 to 12
times a year!

Marc

Thanks.
My worry was they would attempt to replace the current meter with
this one and I have children sleeping less then 10 feet away from the
current meter.

If they will put it out side the house I will have less of a problem
with it.

Mike G
The range I think is around 910 mhz


 

--- In [hidden email], "Bill Bruno" <wbruno@...> wrote:
>
> I think the best might be bioInitiative.org. Also microwaveNews.
>
> FYI we now have a wireless water meter at my house. There are
different
> types. I was a bit worried but really am not able to detect it
with a meter
> unless within a few feet of the sidewalk. It does make me not want
to be
> on the sidewalk.
>
> Conceivably the signal could travel on the water pipe into the
house, but
> I could not detect that either.
>
> Bill
>
> On Nov 25, 2007 9:29 AM, Mike <newmike_g@...> wrote:
>
> > My town is installing water meters that can be read remotely. I
would

Bill, you say you can detect it on the sidewalk. Does this mean that
it does transmit continuously? whats its range? I presume the idea
is that the water metre man can access the info from the meter
without having to go into the house, ie from the sidewalk. Is that
right?

Also, my mum and dad are installing a new boiler which will use a
wireless device. know anything about those?

--- In [hidden email], "Bill Bruno" <wbruno@...> wrote:
>
> I think the best might be bioInitiative.org. Also microwaveNews.
>
> FYI we now have a wireless water meter at my house. There are
different
> types. I was a bit worried but really am not able to detect it
with a meter
> unless within a few feet of the sidewalk. It does make me not want
to be
> on the sidewalk.
>
> Conceivably the signal could travel on the water pipe into the
house, but
> I could not detect that either.
>
> Bill
>
> On Nov 25, 2007 9:29 AM, Mike <newmike_g@...> wrote:
>
> > My town is installing water meters that can be read remotely. I
would

There are at least 3 different kinds of wireless meters. Some beep
every 30 seconds, some only when activated by a meter reader, etc.
See if you can get one installed where it is hooked into the phone line
and it calls up in the middle of the night once a month to report your
usage.
Andrew
On Nov 25, 2007, at 11:58 AM, Marc Martin wrote: