Assessment of radio frequency fields in the 2.45 GHz band produced by smart home devices.
EMF
IoT
electromagnetic fields
human exposure
internet of things
smart devices
smart homes
Journal
Bioelectromagnetics
ISSN: 1521-186X
Titre abrégé: Bioelectromagnetics
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 8008281
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
28 Nov 2023
28 Nov 2023
Historique:
revised:
02
08
2023
received:
03
03
2023
accepted:
03
11
2023
medline:
28
11
2023
pubmed:
28
11
2023
entrez:
28
11
2023
Statut:
aheadofprint
Résumé
This paper describes the assessment of the electromagnetic fields produced by consumer "smart" devices used to control and monitor everyday equipment and appliances in a modern "smart" home. The assessment is based on the careful measurement of fields produced by a range of such devices in a laboratory environment configured to operate in a condition simulating high user activity. All devices included in this study operate in the 2.4 GHz band utilizing either Wi-Fi or Bluetooth connectivity. Overall results indicate very low levels of electromagnetic fields for all IoT smart devices in terms of human exposure safety standards (typically much less than 1%) with very low duty cycles (also less than 1%) resulting in even lower time-averaged exposure levels. These low levels of exposure, along with rapid reduction of levels with distance from the devices, suggests that the cumulative effect of multiple devices in a "smart" home are not significant.
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Subventions
Organisme : Mobile Wireless Forum
ID : MWF#14/21
Informations de copyright
© 2023 The Authors. Bioelectromagnetics published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Bioelectromagnetics Society.
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