ᐅ Wireless or wired smart home systems? What about the issue of radiation?
Created on: 23 Aug 2022 17:47
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Besenkammer84
Hello everyone,
we are currently undertaking an extensive renovation of a house from the 1970s. We have been considering for several weeks how to approach the entire electrical system and smart home setup.
As part of the renovation, electric roller shutters will be installed.
At the moment, we live in a rental apartment with electric roller shutters, where I have partially installed Shellys. The lighting works through various lamps (Yeelight, Philips Hue, Osram smart plugs, etc.). We also have several Amazon Echos, which makes the setup roughly the way we want it.
The configuration was somewhat tedious, and the system is not 100% stable. However, this is most likely due to the still poor Wi-Fi network.
Dependencies for triggering actions (e.g., closing the roller shutters when exposed to sunlight) are not very important to us. It’s more like managing about 10 roller shutters, 15 lights, and 15 sockets/outlets.
Our question is whether to use a wired system (bus) or wireless?
We are also concerned about the impact of wireless radiation on our health. Of course, wireless internet access will be provided throughout the house via multiple access points. Nevertheless, we find it difficult to assess whether smart wireless devices are significantly more harmful to health than wired devices, or if wireless devices increase health risks considerably.
Another alternative is EnOcean technology. What is your opinion on this? Can it significantly reduce harmful radiation?
Are there other technologies we might not yet be aware of?
PS: We are, of course, aware that except for EnOcean technology, everything else also means higher power consumption.
Best regards & thank you
we are currently undertaking an extensive renovation of a house from the 1970s. We have been considering for several weeks how to approach the entire electrical system and smart home setup.
As part of the renovation, electric roller shutters will be installed.
At the moment, we live in a rental apartment with electric roller shutters, where I have partially installed Shellys. The lighting works through various lamps (Yeelight, Philips Hue, Osram smart plugs, etc.). We also have several Amazon Echos, which makes the setup roughly the way we want it.
The configuration was somewhat tedious, and the system is not 100% stable. However, this is most likely due to the still poor Wi-Fi network.
Dependencies for triggering actions (e.g., closing the roller shutters when exposed to sunlight) are not very important to us. It’s more like managing about 10 roller shutters, 15 lights, and 15 sockets/outlets.
Our question is whether to use a wired system (bus) or wireless?
We are also concerned about the impact of wireless radiation on our health. Of course, wireless internet access will be provided throughout the house via multiple access points. Nevertheless, we find it difficult to assess whether smart wireless devices are significantly more harmful to health than wired devices, or if wireless devices increase health risks considerably.
Another alternative is EnOcean technology. What is your opinion on this? Can it significantly reduce harmful radiation?
Are there other technologies we might not yet be aware of?
PS: We are, of course, aware that except for EnOcean technology, everything else also means higher power consumption.
Best regards & thank you
Kokovi79 schrieb:
Radiation would only be harmful to health if it were ionizing radiation. Electromagnetic radiation becomes ionizing only at wavelengths below around 250 nm (nanometers), which corresponds to the petahertz frequency range. The rest is just uncertainty caused by esoteric beliefs and clever salespeople trying to sell useless nonsense. In the military sector, there have been cases of cancer among radar technicians, but these were not caused by the electromagnetic radar radiation itself, rather by the X-rays produced as a side effect by the transmitters at that time. Basically, you are not entirely wrong, but making such general statements causes even more uncertainty or disqualifies your argument. Because, as with many things in life, it all depends solely on the "amount and duration," whether it concerns X-ray radiation or electromagnetic radiation 😉