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Microwaves are radio waves with a frequency from 300MHz to 300GHz which corresponds to a wavelength of one meter down to one millimeter. Often in RF engineering however it is used to refer to a narrower region such as 1 to 100GHz.

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A few questions on PIRs and other motion detectors

PIR sensors have quite a few advantages: they’re very cheap they use very little power (since they’re passive) – very important for battery powered/wireless sensors. We’re talking microwatts here. th …
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