What are the Best EMF Meters?
Measuring electromagnetic pollution is an important step in creating a healthy home. Many people initially buy EMF meters such as the TriField TF2 or Cemprotec 34. They are decent devices to start learning about electromagnetic frequencies. I also purchased EMF meters like these when I began my journey 15 years ago.
However, you will quickly discover that inexpensive combination EMF meters are not adequate if you truly want a low EMF home. They are not sensitive or accurate enough. They will give you false positives and completely miss important EMF exposures, which I demonstrate below. This can ultimately do you more harm than good.
To understand the exposures affecting your family, you want EMF meters that accurately measure the four types of electromagnetic fields. The four primary fields are:
- Radio Frequency
- AC Magnetic Fields
- AC Electric Fields
- EMI (electromagnetic interference) or “Dirty Power”
The reality of EMF meters is that no single inexpensive device can measure multiple fields accurately. Combination EMF meters typically only measure one type of frequency correctly. This is why I recommend a kit with multiple quality devices.
EMF consultants have professional meter kits costing $5,000 – $10,000. However, after more than a decade of testing dozens of different EMF meters, I have found that you can obtain nearly professional level accuracy with a set of meters that costs between $500 and $1,000. While this may seem expensive compared to all the cheap EMF meters available online, there is value in knowing you are accurately measuring the electromagnetic exposures in your home.
My Recommended EMF Meters
The following are the EMF meters that I recommend for your family. They are the best EMF meters on the market at the lowest price possible. The Advanced meter package is what I recommend to most of my clients. I have relied on these EMF meters myself for many years.
The Intermediate package is quite accurate, but less sensitive than the Advanced kit. This is the best set of EMF meters if you are on a budget. You will also see a 5G meter package below. The 5G kit combines the new mmWave RF meter with the advanced EMF meter package.
Your EMF meters will arrive from Safe Living Technologies in Toronto within a few days. SLT is one of the most reputable EMF companies in North America and can ship anywhere in the world. I have partnered with them for client EMF meter and bed canopy purchases for the past decade. For any purchases with Safe Living Technologies you will receive a 10% discount with my coupon code of EMFA.
I will send helpful instructions and a free copy of my Ebook How to Find a Healthy Home with your EMF meter kit purchase. I also provide 20 minutes of free Zoom or email consulting to answer questions that arise.
Advanced EMF Meter Package #1 (Recommended)
The following are the best EMF meters available on the market today:
- RF / Microwave Radiation: Safe and Sound Pro II ($399)
- AC Magnetic (3-axis) & Electric Fields: Safe and Sound EM3 ($649)
- EMI / Dirty Power: Alpha Labs Line EMI Meter ($165) + AM Radio ($30)
You can purchase this accurate, sale-priced meter kit here. Your additional 10% EMFA discount will be applied in your cart for a total of $1,084.
The videos and images below will show you how to use these EMF meters, plus I will walk you through the measurements in your home via email or Zoom.
Intermediate EMF Meter Package #2
Here are EMF meters known to be quite accurate for their price:
- RF / Microwave Radiation: Safe and Sound Pro II ($399)
- AC Magnetic (3-axis) & Electric Field Meter: Safe and Sound EM2 ($399)
- EMI / Dirty Electricity: AM Radio ($30)
To purchase this sensitive EMF meter kit, add the sale priced Safe and Sound Pro II and EM2 meter combo along with the AM radio to your cart. The total cost of this meter package with your 10% discount is $708.
Ideal Measurement Levels with Your EMF Meters
The following are EMF measurement levels that you want to see once you get your EMF meters. They are levels that can almost always be obtained by eliminating sources of EMF pollution and applying certain shielding techniques.
Normal Family with no health issues:
- Radio Frequency: 300 µW/m2 or 0.3 V/m
- AC Magnetic Fields: 1 mG or 100 nT
- AC Electric Fields: 5 V/m
- EMI/Dirty Power: Light static on AM radio and under 100 mV units on Line EMI Meter
Sensitive Populations with health conditions:
- Radio Frequency: 10-100 µW/m2 or 0.06 V/m
- AC Magnetic Fields: 0.2 mG or 20 nT
- AC Electric Fields: 1.0 V/m
- EMI/Dirty Electricity: No static on AM radio and under 50 mV on Line EMI Meter
Note: Some highly electrically sensitive people may need lower levels a night.
Using Your EMF Meters to Create a Healthy Environment
I would now like to share a real world example of how to use your EMF meters to create a healthy environment. The first image below shows an EMF situation that many people are unwittingly exposed to in their home office or bedroom.
At left the Safe and Sound EM3 meter is showing an extremely high AC magnetic field. This is caused by a wiring error within that area of the home. At right the Safe and Sound Pro II RF meter is showing very high microwave levels because of a nearby Wi-Fi router and Bluetooth being enabled in a adjacent laptop. Exposures like this could damage the health of even the strongest person over time.
However, once each of these fields was detected, they could easily be eliminated. In the image below the wiring error has been fixed and all the nearby wireless exposures have been turned off. A truly low-EMF environment was created from just a few relatively simple changes. This is why quality EMF meters are so important to your health.
The next photo shows the best methods to measure EMI (electromagnetic interference) or “dirty electricity. These are very low readings which I have in my home without any filters. The Stetzer Meter is reading very low, the AM radio is quiet throughout the entire AM dial and the Line EMI Meter is below 50 mV. For homes that have dirty electricity issues such as solar, dimmer switches or pool pumps, the Stetzer and Line EMI Meters can read above 1,000. I can help you reduce the dirty electricity in your home via my EMF consulting.
How to Operate Your EMF Meters
It might seem complicated to operate your EMF meters. However, the meter kits are actually quite easy to use. After you watch several videos and experiment with your EMF meters for an hour or two, you will get the hang of it and be able to measure many different environments. It actually becomes quite fun! This is also a skill that you will have the rest of your life that will greatly improve the health of your family and friends.
I will walk you through this process, plus here are a few videos to get you started:
In the next video I show how to use the Advanced EMF meter package to measure and create your sleep sanctuary. Note that the Safe and Sound EM3 and EM2 meters that I recommend above have replaced the UHS2 and ME3851A in the video below. The EM3 and EM2 are even more accurate and cost less that meters in the video.
Here I demonstrate the proper ways to ground your EM3 meter in the Advanced Package above so that you can more accurately measure the AC electric fields in your home. The Safe and Sound EM2 EMF meter in the Intermediate Meter Package does not have the option to be grounded, but still provides very sensitive electric field readings.
My Recommended 5G Radiation Test Meters
5th Generation cellular technology or “5G” is expanding throughout our communities. Unlike previous cellular technologies, 5G contains multiple radio frequency bands.
The lower bands, which are primarily used in rural areas, range from 600 to 800 MHz. The middle bands are typically from 2.5 to 6 GHz, which includes the widely used C-Band. In the United States this operates at 3.9 GHz. Finally, there is the new millimeter wave (mmWave) technology. This type of radio frequency is predominantly in dense urban settings with frequencies ranging from 20 to 40 GHz depending on your country and service provider.
Because there are multiple frequency bands at play with 5G, no single consumer RF meter will be able to measure everything. This means you will need two RF meters. For the low and middle 5G bands, I recommend the Safe and Sound Pro II. The Pro II is very accurate from 200 MHz to 8 GHz. You can see the 3rd party frequency response test for this RF meter here.
For 5G mmWave frequencies, I recommend the Safe and Sound Pro mmWave meter. Millimeter RF waves are very difficult to measure accurately, with most meters in this category costing well over $10,000. However, Safe Living Technologies has created a consumer priced RF meter that can accurately measure between 20 and 40 GHz for under $1,000.
You can add the Pro mmWave RF Meter to the Advance EMF Meter package seen above for an accurate set of EMF meters that covers each type of frequency you will encounter. With your 10% EMFA discount, this Pro EMF meter kit costs $1,850 and looks like this:
How Accurate Is Your EMF Meter?
As I mention above, inexpensive 3-in-1 combination EMF meters such as the TriField TF2, Cornet ED98 Pro5G, GQ EMF-390, ESI 24, Cemprotec 34 and ENV RD-100 are just not accurate or sensitive enough for anyone who truly needs a low-EMF home. They are good EMF meters to help you start learning about electromagnetic fields. However, independent lab tests have shown that these cheaper EMF meters often completely miss fields or greatly exaggerate fields that aren’t actually there. If an EMF meter company does not release an independent frequency response curve test, then I would not trust your family’s health to the meter.
EMF Measurement Comparisons for the TriField TF2 Meter
Perhaps the most popular consumer EMF meter in the world is the TriField TF2. While this meter is somewhat accurate in measuring AC magnetic fields, it is not something I recommend for AC electric fields or radio frequency. You can see why in the following images and video.
In this first image, I measure the the AC electric field on a bed with both the TriField TF2 and the Gigahertz Solutions ME3851A. You can see that the TF2 misses an extremely high electric field exposure.
This second images compares the 3-axis magnetic field measurement of the Safe and Sound EM3, Alpha Labs UHS2 and TriField TF2 EMF Meters. While the TF2 is known to be somewhat accurate for magnetic fields, it doesn’t show a field from a nearby power line that the EM3 and UHS2 are detecting. The EM3 provides very similar measurements to the $2,300 Gigahertz Solutions NFA 1000 meter, which is the industry standard.
In the next image the TF2 is underreporting the radio frequency level by 100 times. This is because the TriField does not accurately measure RF sources such as Bluetooth radiation, 5.0 GHz Wi-Fi or wireless smart meter pulses. Independent testing has shown that the TF2 measures 100 times too high for some frequencies and 100 times too low for others. This is why I don’t recommend combination EMF RF meters to my clients.
The following video shows how the TriField TF2 combination meter stacks up against more accurate EMF / RF meters. This is why I recommend the EMF meter test kits seen above.
Conclusion
I hope this EMF meter guide has been valuable and encourages you to start testing your environment. This will make your home much healthier for you and your family. If you have any questions on EMF meters or would like to be connected to an experienced local EMF consultant that I trust, don’t hesitate to contact me.
Thank you,
Jeromy
Updated April 2026
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