According to Hess-Mills, she has chosen to sleep outside every night for the past month because she believes she has electric hypersensitivity (EHS) to electromagnetic fields (EMFs) emitted from a new piece of technology being used more and more by power companies across the world; a two-way “smart” meter. “Many power companies are moving to digital meters as they provide many efficiencies and better technology for our members and power systems,” said John Francisco, Chief of Energy Resources at Inland Power. Maio and her husband have been filming a documentary to educate the public on EHS, possibly caused by items like smart meters, cellphones, power transformers, and other items that emit EMFs.