Smart meters

Wireless radiation exposure has become an unavoidable, and for me a painful and lifestyle-altering, part of daily life. Cell phones, Smart watches, Smart technology, Wi‑Fi routers, Bluetooth devices, Smart meters, and nearby cell towers all contribute to a constant radiofrequency exposure that has not been previously experienced in former generations. Due to the pain caused by these widespread blanketing waves, I am unable to visit public places where cell phones, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and cell towers are present. In 2020, I was diagnosed with EMF sensitivity and chemical sensitivity as part of MCAS - Mast Cell Activation Syndrome - an autoimmune disease believed to be caused by toxic mold exposure. I saw several specialists and MD's, including an extended stay at the Environmental Health Center of North Dallas. Using the ESI 24 electro-smog detector, it was determined that I react to radiation from electrical fields, magnetic fields, radiofrequencies and high-frequency voltage transients. Symptoms are present immediately, and within minutes migraines with and without aura are experienced, as well as pseudo-seizure type episodes. The determining factors are the strength of signal and the length of time spent in the signal. A squeezing sensation in the back of the head and neck, eye pain and dizziness and shaking are also common symptoms. I carry radiation protection at all times on my person and we have several mitigation devices in our house. None are strong enough to ward off the pain caused by the radiation from cell phones, TV's with built-in chips that cannot be deactivated, or neighbor's Wi-Fi. Smart meters are also a concern, as we have one in our immediate living area and our local provider does not offer opting out. We have hard-wired internet connections where applicable, but some devices cannot be shut-off. Even our garage door opener is enabled with smart technology, which is located right under the room in which I sleep. The electrical breakers to my bedroom must be turned off every night in order to relieve the pain. This technology, while meant to be helpful and forward-thinking, is many times dangerous and without proper regulation. The radiation being put off by these devices is more dangerous than we think, and this technology needs to be re-evaluated, especially when used at close proximity, as with baby monitors, appliances, and without question cell phones. This is a silent threat that in my opinion can damage the health of our society, young and old. It is happening to me right now, and what will be the result in ten years? Does anyone care?

All I can say is since the skies have sprayed with barium and aluminum, living next to new transmitters, smart water meters and smart electric meters, (we didn’t have choice), poisons in our food and water, politicians in the pants of big corporations, my gardens dying and we haven’t seen a frog in over 5 year, skin rashes and power surges, sun being dimmed (vitamin D), constant inflammation y’all need to start arresting those responsible for destroying our planet! We didn’t ask for this but evil delivered it!

I feel the EMF's affect my life daily, with brain fog, not being able to sleep at night, & I have acquired a humming on the left side of my head & ear. It seems to have started when a smart meter was installed on our power pole. It's a constant struggle to try to feel healthy with all of this surrounding us, not to even mention the daily chemtrails, which I have constant sinus issues & cannot be outside very long. So Thankful you are addressing these issues for all suffering. Thank you!

I am responding as an individual consumer and parent. I’m 52 but my cognition is sometimes that of a 92 year-old due to EMFs. I eat healthy, whole, organic food; take care of my mental health; incorporate daily movement into an already active life as a partner-free mama to a nine year-old; and go to sleep between 9-10pm, yet smart meters and WiFi from adjoining houses prevent me from sleeping through the night. What EMFs are doing to the younger populations who have never known a world without 5g towers and the like is unbelievable. Please study these: https://substack.com/redirect/fa0e0b40-9971-4f20-8a7d-b24d9db59e1d?j=eyJ1IjoiNHY5bWEifQ.ThwqzKXOhra7eQnIDlMYDXIXp9lVxrwpuABHg4Ox3AE Thanks, Viv

Individual consumer / patient (age 59, Ashland City, Tennessee area) who has experienced symptoms associated with RF/EMF exposure from mobile phones, Wi-Fi, smart meters, and 5G. I am 59 years old. My cognitive decline began when I was 55. Prior to that I was sharp, owned and ran a complex and successful business on Maui, and had no difficulty learning or retaining information. Since onset I have experienced extreme brain fog, a severely compromised ability to perform basic problem-solving, and an extremely limited short-term memory that has made me virtually unemployable—I can no longer learn and retain new things. I have had an MRI and cognitive performance testing; the results indicated early-onset Alzheimer’s. These symptoms have improved dramatically in the last two years only after intensive healing protocols. This was not the case prior to roughly 2021. I have always been highly sensitive to EMF frequencies and Wi-Fi, and I am especially sensitive to 5G. Enabling 5G on my phones quickly makes me feel sick, and I can notice when I am near a 5G tower. For this reason I always disable 5G. I used an iPhone 7 for many years and upgraded to an iPhone SE (3rd generation) in 2024. With both of these phones I could feel the radiation. The longer I held either device, the more severe the sensation became. Both caused strong aching in my hand and arm; after prolonged use this often progressed to tingling and/or numbness. The symptoms were noticeable during ordinary use and worsened with longer holding times. In 2026 I upgraded to an iPhone Air. I have noticed a significant improvement: much less of the radiation sensation and substantially reduced hand and arm pain when holding the phone. I still notice some effect, but it is markedly milder than with the older models. I never hold any phone to my ear and always use speakerphone. Published SAR values (U.S. FCC, averaged over 1 gram of tissue, cellular transmission) for these models are approximately: iPhone 7: Head ~1.11–1.19 W/kg, Body ~1.14–1.19 W/kg (varies by specific model) iPhone SE (3rd generation): Head 1.20 W/kg, Body 1.20 W/kg iPhone Air: Head 1.19 W/kg, Body 1.19 W/kg (cellular-only) Despite the similar official peak SAR numbers, my real-world experience of reduced sensation and pain with the Air has been consistent. This suggests that other design factors (antenna placement, power management, or everyday transmission behavior) may matter for sensitive individuals. My wife and I both use our phones many hours a day; her job requires extensive phone use. To reduce overnight exposure I keep my phone at least two to three feet from my body while sleeping and sometimes place it in Airplane mode. We live in an apartment building. Our Wi-Fi router is located in the closet in my wife’s bedroom because that is the only place the cable enters the unit. She rarely can sleep past about 2 a.m. She then remains awake—though exhausted—from roughly 2 a.m. until 5 or 6 a.m., after which she falls back asleep until her alarm only out of pure exhaustion. The amount of make-up sleep is woefully insufficient. This chronic sleep disruption has been extremely hard on her overall health and has resulted in permanent bags under her eyes. I am concerned that prolonged close proximity to the router may be contributing. I am also very affected by smart meters. A bank of approximately a dozen smart meters (one for each apartment) is mounted on the exterior wall immediately outside my bedroom. The only mitigating factor is a walk-in closet between my bedroom and that exterior wall; the added distance makes the exposure more tolerable, but it remains noticeable. Combined with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 5G, and other sources, these create a continuous “soup” of RF/EMF exposure that warrants further study. I lived on Maui, Hawaii, through early 2020. Maui was one of the last counties in the U.S. to receive a commercial 5G upgrade, and 5G was not present there during the time I lived on the island. After relocating, my cognitive problems began around 2021–2022. Given my extreme sensitivity to EMF/RF, the timing of these symptoms relative to increased exposure after the move is concerning to me, even though I cannot prove a direct causal link. I am grateful that Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and HHS have opened this Request for Information to examine potential health effects of EMF and RF frequencies, including real-world experiences of sensitive individuals and cumulative exposures. Further research into device design differences, smart meters, residential Wi-Fi, and vulnerable populations is needed.

I am the parent of an autistic adult who is fully dependent on my support. She was experiencing significant insomnia. Her heath care provider recommended she hard wire the house, turn off WIFI on the router, and eliminate WIFI and exposure to the cell phone in the bed room. This resulted in much improved sleep, including beginning to dream again. She was exposed beginning in ~2004, and had regular exposure to the cell phone as she did everything on it. The WIFI router was above her sleeping area. She experienced noticeable changes in her sleep which was much improved. It was recommended the house be remediated for EMF, so a building biologist was hired who identified ways to reduce the EMF load in the House. Smart meter was removed, dirty electricity remediation involved switching out fixtures, dimmers on lights were removed throughout the house, installing a sleep switch to turn on electricity in the sleeping areas, stopping electricity coming into the house on the water main, and other interventions. LED lights are NOT in allowed the house to avoid blue light. My doctor considers me EMF sensitive and will write letters to prevent me from unnecessary exposure to EMF. We do not let EMF emitting devices in the house and test the environment regularly with the Safe and Sound meter as new people come into house and new devices or appliances enter house. We relied on the building biologists many studies of harm from EMF exposure AND insomnia was a symptom that regularly was identified as a problem. The bedroom area and the house in general are not in the low EMF on the Safe and Sound meter. Studies can be found at: Regarding scientific support for negative health effects effects of EMF…. and included below in the attached document links to a website and a book. I also included them here, plus attached the color charts: i. The full Bioinitiative 2012 report can be found at: https://bioinitiative.org/table-of-contents/ ii. The attached are color charts below that list studies that looked at the biological effects of low exposure to EMF & is available at https://bioinitiative.org/rf-color-charts/ iii. A book on the topics is at: https://www.routledge.com/Electromagnetic-Fields-of-Wireless-Communications-Biological-and-Health-Effects/Panagopoulos/p/book/9781032061764

First THANK YOU for providing a forum where this information may be shared publicly. While I am not an American citizen, I was fortunate enough to live in your country during the 90s as I was given an O Visa. After 9/11, I chose to come back to Canada as I could see the world was changing rapidly. Soon after my arrival home and in a new job, I was gifted a brand new Mac laptop computer. Going by the name, I would often have it sat on my lap. This is until my thighs began to ache so much that I could hardly stand it. Looking into it more deeply, I came across a local group called Citizens for Safe Technology. They had so much more information than what little I remembered reading about electromagnetic frequencies back in the 1970s. Could this be what was going on with my legs? Then on August 22, 2012, a smart meter was forced on me & my home despite explicit, written refusal to grant consent. There was a tense exchange on my property. This event served as the core piece of evidence when CFST officially filed a class-action lawsuit, using my name, the following summer in July 2013. This case was a symbol of the broader provincial resistance and while we failed to have the case certified, the case woke many people up. I still occasionally get unpleasant sensations in my hand while holding a cell phone but perhaps like the proverbial boiled frog, the aching legs while using a laptop, has subsided. My wish in sharing a bit of info here, is mainly to share the contact and educational info for C4ST at https://c4st.org/ As well as an excellent book offering a bit of history by Arthur Furstenberg https://ehtrust.org/invisible-rainbow-arthur-firstenberg-story-invention-use-electricity/ The court ruled a lack of evidence in our case, if we onlyt knew then what we know now. With all the information coming out thanks to Mr. Kennedy, I hope that things will finally shift to a more healthful planet. Thank you for listening and te best of luck

I appreciate your interest in the public’s opinion - especially since it is we the taxpayers who fund the FCC. Total transparency and nothing less. That is what the citizens of the United States deserve on ALL aspects of the government. * 5g and it’s affects? Cell towers are everywhere - to include on our water towers. What is it doing to our water? * EMF and the levels we are exposed to and the repercussions. *Chem trails are still going on. It’s raining iron oxide! *Replacing our perfectly good meters with smart meters? I don’t want more government intrusion I want less! Thank you.

2. I represent myself as an individual 3A. My comment covers in home wifi, smart meters (both electric and gas), cell towers, and cell phones. All of which I have had on my property, including a tower which is still here on my property. 3B. My worst experience has been with Smart Meters. I had one on the gas meter which was against the exterior wall of the house. That same wall was the wall of my bedroom where my bed was located. So when I laid down my head was 3 feet from the meter. My house had burned down and during the rebuild these smart meters were installed on the infrastructure that was still located there. I had no experience with them before and when we moved into the rebuilt house my sleep was instantly disturbed. I thought it was the wifi or the tower which were also installed during this time and bought devices to help with emf reduction, including a faraday cloth over my entire bed. And things worked in small increments. I had not realized the gas meter was also changed to smart and lived with that for 5 years. Just this summer I had both smart meters (elect and gas) removed and instantly my sleep was back to normal. Under the influence of the emf my sleep was agitated with lots of waking up with my heart racing and then no matter how long I layed in bed I woke up with baggy eyes not feeling rested. I would spend time on the couch in a different room and sleep much better but my back was not as comfortable there as in my bed. Interior wifi has also disturbed my sleep. I removed all wifi from the house, and now have it through repeaters using Eero which lands outside the house on the porch and I can plug in repeaters inside the house when I need to. Then unplug them when finished. This has been happening for 6 years. My cell phone also disturbs my sleep. So I charge it at the furthest point away from me across my room. I cannot use my cell phone on my ear because the ear and behind it heat up to an uncomfortable level. I use the phone on speaker and hold it away from my body. This has been going on since my first cell phone in 2000. I have a cell tower on my property as well and it is adding to the lack of rest I experience, though now so much better without the smart meter. There is a noticeable agitation while on my property that I do not notice when I am elsewhere and it was not like that here before the tower went up on 2016. I’ve been living here since 2007. 3C. My sensitivity to this increased exposure to emf has produced a feeling that I am getting dementia. My ability to concentrate has diminished. My ability to hold a short term memory has diminished. And some of my cognitive abilities have diminished. All in a short amount of time that correlates to the above mentioned exposures. Lack of sleep and loss of income from less productive time have been my experiences as well. 3D. I first noticed poor sleep when the cell tower was installed in 2016. Then when we moved into our rebuilt house in 2019 the effects became much more severe. That was when my head was near the smart meter, and this was the most intense acute exposure I experienced. 3E. Yes I sought several doctors. I used an MD who wasn’t very helpful, then an Ayervedic doctor which helped using herbs, but the best was an anti-inflammation diet though an MD who was also a naturopath working on mold and emf stress. These helped me feel better but did not remove the problem. 3F. Yes I first moved my phone charging station the furthest away from my bed possible and that helped me feel better. Then I used a plug in emf reducing device and that helped me feel better. Also the faraday cloth around my bed. Each of these brought small incremental improvements. But removing the smart meter was an incredible relief and it was noticeable in the first evening. 5. The website at cell phone task force needs to be considered for the data and information it reports on: https://www.cellphonetaskforce.international/ Also, Green Med Info contains many peer reviewed science articles about this: https://greenmedinfo.com/ And: https://greenmedinfo.com/problematic-action/electromagnetic-field-harms?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email 5.N. A more comprehensive study needs to be done. EMF’s have been released upon the public without a full study of their effects. And especially, 5G amounts to an complete change in technology from the previous 1-4G which were not fully studied. 5G exacerbates the level of unknown about the strength and affect on the human body as well as on the natural ecosphere. This exposure also needs to be looked at as regards the satellites that are covering the planet with the same energies. 12. https://greenmedinfo.com/problematic-action/electromagnetic-field-harms?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email 18. a published federal evidence review of the existing literature, with a timetable

I AM SURROUNDED BY 9 unregulated macro towers Since they were secretly installed DIRECTLY OVER my home , my office and my animal Sanctuary MY ANIMALS ARE DYING ! I AM NOW SICK . My family members are sick , MY NEIGHBORS ARE DYING rapidly. It began when the towers went live , I started having heart palpitations, heart pain , fluttering in my chest . Ringing in my ears, terrible headaches, vertigo , blurry vision , terrible body pain , EXTREME fatigue,, memory loss, mood swings , nausea, vomiting and so much more that has effected how I live daily . THIS IS NOW MY EVERY DAY LIFE . I was diagnosed with radiation poisoning, then electromagnetic radiation syndrome. There are unregulated towers on every corner in HOUMA LOUISIANA, Entergy forced a smart meter on my home , I now must use EMF / RF PROTECTION TO LEAVE MY HOME , MY HOME , MY BARN had to be completely covered with EMF protection for me to even be there . I AM NOW EXTREMELY SENSITIVE TO ALL RF / EMF frequency, electricity or electrical waves of any kind . Walking in a room with a router makes me instantly SICK or walking outside in the towers frequency around me . My family members are now sick . The towers around us were not regulated, the smart meters they forced on our homes are not regulated. And I am now told OH WELL , You being very sick is not our problem Because THE FCC allows whatever it is we wish to install . Now I live a life I never thought could happen , I can not leave my safe areas without full EMF PROTECTION , I can not go to my barn or office as I did before , my horses are dying INSTANTLY UNDER THE TOWERS, my tortises were going blind and my small animals all DIED , 9 of my neighbors have died on ONE STREET since the towers went live . THE LOCAL PLANNING DEPARTMENT ALLOWD MORE THAN 100 Unregulated towers in our small town . My community is VERY SICK , AND DYING , CLUSTERS OF RESIDENTS ARE DYING UNDER THE TOWERS & WITH UNREGULATED SMART METERS forced on our homes . WITH ZERO REGULATORY STANDARDS, The death and destruction from unregulated RADIATION HAS BEEN CATASTROPHIC. WE NEED HELP . So many of my neighbors are very sick , others are DYING RAPIDLY. Of CANCER or a host of radiation exposure related illness . WITHOUT VERY STRICT REGULATION ON RF RADIATION FOR ALL PRODUCTS, Everyone , EVERY CHILD is faced with a lifetime of illness and death . Safe technology MUST BE THE STANDARD not something we must beg for .