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ITRON 2.4GZ OpenWay® Gas Module

The 2.4GZ OpenWay Gas module is Itron’s radio-frequency (RF) gas meter module for use with Itron’s industry-leading OpenWay smart grid advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) system. 

Press release

Lecce, February 18, 2015

Requested to the competent authorities of the City of Lecce immediately blocking the installation of new gas meters to remote reading (smart meter), potentially dangerous to public health.

It was presented to the municipality, the Prefecture and the Province of Lecce a document signed by 14 people including doctors, pharmacists, biologists and leading members of civil society in which you require an urgent moratorium on the installation of new meters of gas remote reading (smart meter). These devices are radio frequency (RF) that only work wirelessly supplying pulses 24 hours 24.

The smart meters allow the reading of consumption at a distance and above all allow you to manage the flow of gas on the basis of demand instant but in a report by the Institute for Competitiveness, Energy Area, in October 2011, states that for the distributors Their installation is advantageous only in the case in which the costs are transferred in the bill.

For citizens, then, the costs are related to the most serious potential damage to health caused by the new meters.Because the installation is widespread (homes, offices, schools, etc.), the exposure to RF is massive and continued. The petitioners are asking the Mayor of Lecce and the competent authorities that, with regard to the new meters, is applied the Precautionary Principle as the Council of Europe; interrupted urgently installing them not to endanger the health of citizens; has convened a round table about.
Numerous and credible scientific studies conducted by internationally renowned researchers highlight the potentially harmful effects to human health to radio frequency devices for telecommunications as precisely the smart meter.

It is biological effects that occur for exposures significantly below the limits of the law. The most common symptoms are: headache, insomnia, difficulty concentrating, fatigue, memory loss and learning delays, depression, tinnitus, nausea and vomiting, increased blood pressure. All symptoms, for their non-specificity, are often not recognized as probably from exposure to radio frequency. With the continuation of this exposure were observed permanent neurological damage (early dementia, Alzheimer’s), damage to the immune system, the endocrine system, the gene pool, and even cancer. Children, adolescents, pregnant women, the elderly and those with pre-existing health problems are more vulnerable.

In addition, prolonged exposure to radio frequency increases the risk of developing a disease emerging (EHS), which according to recent estimates would affect between 3% to 5% of the European population (the percentage is growing). The EHS is manifested as an allergy to the RF and is disabling for sufferers. The alarm sounded by the scientific community on the inadequacy of the current standard of RF exposure, based only on the effects of thermal and non-organic ones, has been implemented by several international bodies, including the European Union, the Council of Europe , the American Academy of Environmental Medicine, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the European Environment Agency.

In particular, the Council of Europe (Resolution 1815 of 27/05/2011) recommends Member States to take urgent action to reduce human exposure to electromagnetic paying particular attention to children and to apply the Precautionary Principle.

In Italy, however, the law 221/2012, the limits for exposure of the population were actually increased despite the contrary opinion expressed by both the system of environmental agencies from both the Ministry of Health. The Italian judiciary has adopted in recent years an innovative position on health risks from electromagnetic fields: the Supreme Court, in a judgment of 2000 states that is within the powers of the Court to check that there is no danger to the health in exposure to a source of pollution, even at levels below the legal limits.
A group of 54 experts, led by D. Carpenter, signed in 2012 a document clarifying the serious damage to health associated with exposure to the smart meter, sconsigliandone installation. Among the decisions taken at the political level in defense of public health highlights the choice ten counties in California, and 39 municipalities of British Columbia (Canada) which have banned the installation of smart meters.

For Lloyd’s of London damage related to exposure to RF-EMF (Radiofrquenze – Electromagnetic Fields), are comparable, as gravity, to those of asbestos. Such damage, underestimated by the competent authorities, may grow exponentially and constitute significant losses for the insurance companies. Sign the document pharmacists Fabia Del Giudice and Mimmo Di Tolla (president of the Order of Pharmacists), specialist dermatologist Carmel Calvi,the specialist plastic surgeon Simonetta Morelli, biologists Alessandro Lorusso and Emanuela Assab, Dr. Mauro Sansò (COO garrison hospital rehabilitation high specialties, Fondazione San Raffaele), the lawyer Stefano Gallotta(President Association Codes), Dr Beppe D’Ercole (Lecce Living Association President), Dr. Luigi Russo (President Volunteer Service Center Salento), Dr. Antonio Carpentieri (provincial coordinator Codacons Lecce), Mr. Leo Ciccardi (New Rudiae Popular Committee Chairman), Dr. Salvatore Longo (national president FedImprese) Advocate Claudia Longo (President Bilateral Agency Tertiary Italian).

Download the document presented to the town of Lecce

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