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The EMF Assessment is for measured electromagnetic-field readings in the places where you spend time. It lives inside the Environment context card and is included in AI context, export/import, sync, and recommendations. Use it when you have meter readings from your bedroom, office, living room, or a professional building-biology report and want those measurements to be interpreted alongside your labs, sleep, light, and symptoms.

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Where to find it

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Open Manage → Context

Open Insight → Manage → Context, or add the context widget to your dashboard and open Environment.
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Open EMF Assessment

In the Environment card, click Open EMF Assessment.
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Add rooms and readings

Add a room, mark whether it is a sleeping area or daytime area, then enter readings from your meter or consultant report.

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What to record

MeasurementUnitTypical source
AC electric fieldsV/mwiring, ungrounded lamps, bedside cables
AC magnetic fieldsnTtransformers, panels, appliances, nearby power lines
RF / microwave radiationµW/m²WiFi, phones, cell towers, smart meters
Dirty electricityGSswitching power supplies, dimmers, solar inverters
DC magnetic deviationµTsteel beds, magnets, local magnetic-field distortion
Each room can also include source tags, mitigation tags, notes, and photos of meter readings or room setup.

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How getbased rates readings

getbased grades each measurement against SBM-2015-style building-biology thresholds. Sleeping areas are treated more strictly than daytime rooms because you spend more recovery time there. The rating colors are meant to help you prioritize, not to diagnose disease:
RatingMeaning
No concernNothing obvious in the reading
Slight concernWorth watching or retesting
Severe concernLikely worth mitigation if repeatable
Extreme concernHighest-priority exposure to investigate
Meter technique matters. Distance, orientation, body shielding, background signals, and meter bandwidth can change readings. Treat one measurement as a clue; repeat measurements before making expensive changes.

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AI interpretation

Click Interpret inside the EMF editor to ask the active AI provider to synthesize the room-by-room readings. The interpretation can explain likely sources, rank the rooms by priority, and suggest mitigations. If you save multiple assessments, getbased can compare before/after readings so you can see whether a mitigation actually changed the measurement.

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Import professional reports

If you have a consultant PDF or photo report, import it from the EMF Assessment. getbased uses the same AI import/review pattern as lab reports: extract readings, review them, then save the structured snapshot.

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How EMF data affects the rest of getbased

  • AI chat receives a summary of saved EMF assessments as part of profile context.
  • Recommendations can suggest mitigation steps, meters, or products when your readings are high enough to warrant attention.
  • Sync/export/import include saved assessments with the profile.
  • Environment context still keeps the simpler high-level EMF/source fields; the assessment is for measured room-level detail.
EMF recommendations are informational. getbased cannot prove that a reading caused a symptom or lab result. Use the assessment to organize measurements and decisions, and consult a qualified building-biology or electrical professional for remediation work.