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Are the radio waves of the Wireless Leiden network a risk to human health?

Huub Schuurmans's picture
No.

The WiFi radio waves have extremely low power (100 milliwatt is the legal maximum, this is far less than that of a mobile phone) and the accesspoints of Wireless Leiden are outdoors. Therefore the signal is hardly detectable inside homes. The technology that we use is identical to the one that people use at home or office for a local wireless network, e.g. to connect to the internet modem/router. It is also used e.g. in hospitals.