Smart Meters Wreaking Havoc With Home Electronics

wiredmikey writes "About 200 customers of the Central Maine Power Company recently noticed something odd after the utility installed smart meters in their homes: household electronics, including wireless devices, stopped working, or behaved erratically. Many Smart Meters broadcast in the 2.4GHz frequency range. Unfortunately, so do many of the consumer gadgets we take for granted these days including routers, electric garage doors, fire alarms, clocks, electric pet fences, answering machines, and baby monitors — even medical devices. The electromagnetic congestion in the home is in some ways similar to the growing electronic congestion in hospitals as they acquire more and more electronic monitors all operating within a few feet of each other. Medical equipment has been known to shut down or give erroneous results when positioned close to another piece of equipment. Such interference is not new, just getting worse — rapidly."

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WIFI radiation anyone?

[bejiitas_wrath]

The Smart meters use 2.4GHZ WIFI, because the reader is too lazy to come to each house and read the meter like the good old days? And the fact that these meters can cause cancer and other ailments does not seem to matter to the people that are pushing this new technology. Some sense needs to be made of this soon and we need to work out why these meters are putting out so much radiation. How are they going to reduce carbon emissions.