The property management has just announced the installation of smoke alarms in our apartment building - at very short notice.
I have done my best to dig up information on the fumonic radio net gadget but it was only the usual customer information stuff.
Living in a small flat I would have to accept two of these detectors, one of them in the bedroom. Now my bedroom is definitely the last place where I would want to have unnecessary wireless stuff.
All I could find out was that these two gadgets are not interconnected (if true), so they're not exchanging wireless information on a regular basis. They are said to be sending status information to the company once a month (which should be pretty ok) but what I find pretty unnerving, they have a red LED blinking day and night every 48 seconds!
Just the thought of being disturbed by a red LED blinking 24/7 is already making me cringe.
I usually have a hard time falling asleep anyway and this gadget would probably drive me crazy.
I have done all I could. I have sent four mails to the management and I have written a two-sided pamphlet with health info on this subject to all the 40 households in the neighborhood waiting to be equipped with this gadgetry. I went for legal counseling.
The law in Germany determines that all bedrooms must be equipped with smoke detectors but it doesn't demand any wireless smoke detectors.
What are your experiences with wireless smoke alarms? Do you consider them unhealthy?
I have done my best to dig up information on the fumonic radio net gadget but it was only the usual customer information stuff.
Living in a small flat I would have to accept two of these detectors, one of them in the bedroom. Now my bedroom is definitely the last place where I would want to have unnecessary wireless stuff.
All I could find out was that these two gadgets are not interconnected (if true), so they're not exchanging wireless information on a regular basis. They are said to be sending status information to the company once a month (which should be pretty ok) but what I find pretty unnerving, they have a red LED blinking day and night every 48 seconds!
Just the thought of being disturbed by a red LED blinking 24/7 is already making me cringe.
I usually have a hard time falling asleep anyway and this gadget would probably drive me crazy.
I have done all I could. I have sent four mails to the management and I have written a two-sided pamphlet with health info on this subject to all the 40 households in the neighborhood waiting to be equipped with this gadgetry. I went for legal counseling.
The law in Germany determines that all bedrooms must be equipped with smoke detectors but it doesn't demand any wireless smoke detectors.
What are your experiences with wireless smoke alarms? Do you consider them unhealthy?
I would at least try to make it harder for the company, maybe measure radiation before installation (or turn it off for a while and then switch back on) and after and then it might be an interesting experience to ask them (or the house owner, city council) for written confirmation that their devices do not cause radiation exposure bad for humans, or something like that. A customer perhaps does not have much choice but you never know if you don't try.
