A numerical coefficient for evaluation of the environmental impact of electromagnetic fields radiated by base stations for mobile communications

2010 ◽  
Vol 31 (8) ◽  
pp. 613-621 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Russo ◽  
G. Cerri ◽  
V. Vespasiani
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Electromagnetic Fields ◽  
Mobile Communications ◽  
Base Stations ◽  
Numerical Coefficient

Developing GIS portal to ensure sanitary and epidemiological surveillance of transferring radio engineering objects

2020 ◽  
Vol 99 (4) ◽  
pp. 344-350
Author(s):  
Evgeny V. Zibarev ◽  
A. S. Afanasev ◽  
O. V. Slusareva ◽  
T. I. Muragimov ◽  
V. A. Stepanets ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Electromagnetic Fields ◽  
Analytical Data ◽  
Base Stations ◽  
Epidemiological Surveillance ◽  
Graphical Form ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Information Portal ◽  
Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Fields ◽  
Online Mode ◽  
Automated Processes

In recent years, in the Russian Federation there has been an increase in the levels of radiofrequency electromagnetic fields in residential areas, including due to an increase in the number of base stations (BS). The purpose of sanitary and epidemiological surveillance at the stages of placement and commissioning of base stations (BS) is to prevent their adverse effects on public health. The increase in the number of base stations, together with the advent of new electronic equipment and antennas, provide opportunities for improving the processes of their accounting at the stage of placement and monitoring of the levels of radiofrequency electromagnetic fields at the operation stage. This automation tool can be a geo-information portal for providing sanitary and epidemiological surveillance of cellular base stations. The prototype of the geo-information portal allows both calculating the size of sanitary protection zones (SPZ) and building restriction zones (RZ) from the BS in online mode, displaying the results of calculations in graphical form and issuing sanitary and epidemiological conclusions for the placement and operation of base stations. The geo-information portal has the ability to synchronize with the data of the radio frequency center. Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing will be able to receive up-to-date analytical data. There will be completely automated processes of collecting, processing and storing information on BS.

scholarly journals Radio Base Stations and Electromagnetic Fields: GIS Applications and Models for Identifying Possible Risk Factors and Areas Exposed. Some Exemplifications in Rome

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 3
Author(s):  
Cristiano Pesaresi ◽  
Davide Pavia
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Electromagnetic Fields ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Health Information System ◽  
Medical Geography ◽  
Base Stations ◽  
Buffer Zones ◽  
North East ◽  
Gis Applications

This paper—which is contextualized in the discussion on the methodological pluralism and the main topics of medical geography, the complexity theory in geographies of health, the remaking of medical geography and ad hoc systems of data elaboration—focuses on radio base stations (RBSs) as sources of electromagnetic fields, to provide GIS applications and simplifying-prudential models that are able to identify areas that could potentially be exposed to hazard. After highlighting some specific aspects regarding RBSs and their characteristics and summarizing the results of a number of studies concerning the possible effects of electromagnetic fields on health, we have taken an area of north-east Rome with a high population and building density as a case study, and we have provided some methodological and applicative exemplifications for different situations and types of antennas. Through specific functionalities and criteria, drawing inspiration from a precautionary principle, these exemplifications show some particular cases in order to support: possible risk factor identification, surveillance and spatial analysis; correlation analysis between potential risk factors and outbreak of diseases and symptoms; measurement campaigns in heavily exposed areas and buildings; education policies and prevention actions. From an operative viewpoint, we have: conducted some field surveys and recorded data and images with specific geotechnological and geomatics instruments; retraced the routes by geobrowsers and basemaps and harmonized and joined up the materials in a GIS environment; used different functions to define, on aero-satellite images, concentric circular buffer zones starting from each RBS, and geographically and geometrically delimited the connected areas subject to high and different exposure levels; produced digital applications and tested prime three-dimensional models, in addition to a video from a bird’s eye view perspective, able to show the buildings in the different buffer zones and which are subject to a hazard hierarchy due to exposure to an RBS. A similar GIS-based model—reproposable with methodological adjustments to other polluting sources—can make it possible to conceive a dynamic and multiscale digital system functional in terms of strategic planning, decision-making and public health promotion in a performant digital health information system.

scholarly journals Temporal variation of exposure from radio-frequency electromagnetic fields around mobile communication base stations

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. e00724
Author(s):  
Abel B. Olorunsola ◽  
Omolayo M. Ikumapayi ◽  
Bankole I. Oladapo ◽  
Adeleke O. Alimi ◽  
Adeyinka O.M. Adeoye
Keyword(s):  
Radio Frequency ◽  
Temporal Variation ◽  
Electromagnetic Fields ◽  
Mobile Communication ◽  
Base Stations

HYGIENIC ASSESSMENT OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION LEVELS OF BASE STATIONS,INSTALLED ON THE ROOFS OF BUILDINGS AND THE TERRITORY OF LAND PLOTS IN TASHKENT

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
pp. 5-11
Author(s):  
G. A. Tashpulatova ◽  
◽  
A. N. Krasavin
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Electromagnetic Radiation ◽  
Flux Density ◽  
Energy Flux ◽  
Mobile Communications ◽  
Base Station ◽  
Base Stations ◽  
Cellular Communications ◽  
Measurement Results ◽  
Energy Flux Density

This article is about instrumental measurements of the FR EMR energy flux density. The measurement results were analyzed with the division of the data obtained by the purpose of buildings and the height of the antenna equipment placement, a hygienic assessment of the RF EMR levels created by the equipment of base stations of cellular communications, installed on the roofs of residential and public buildings and adjacent territories of Tashkent is given. A proposal is made on the rational placement of radio engineering facilities.Keywords:electromagnetic field; electromagnetic safety; base station for mobile communications; protection of public health; sanitary supervision

scholarly journals Influence of High Frequency Electromagnetic Fields Produced by Antennas for Mobile Communication on the Structure of the Pancreas in Rats: Histological and Unbiased Stereological Analysis

2018 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 484-501
Author(s):  
D.Smiljana Paraš ◽  
B. Radoslav Gajanin ◽  
Lj. Maja Manojlović ◽  
Nj. Zoran Ružić
Keyword(s):  
Electromagnetic Fields ◽  
Mobile Communication ◽  
Mobile Communications ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
Volume Density ◽  
Pancreatic Tissue ◽  
Male Rats ◽  
Numerical Density ◽  
Unexposed Group ◽  
Study Results

Abstract The emission of high frequency electromagnetic fields (HF EMF) produced by antennas for mobile communications has been controversially alleged to have adverse health effects. The aim of our work was to examine whether there are effects on living organisms from HF EMF produced by mobile communication antennas. In this experiment Wistar strain rats were exposed to HF EMF with the following characteristics: 1.9 GHz frequency, 0.24 A/m intensity, electric field strength of 4.79 V/m, and SAR (specific absorption rate) value of 2.0 W/m2. Exposure time was 7 hours per day, 5 days per week, over the course of sixty days. This experiment was conducted on a total of 30 male rats divided randomly into two equal groups: one group of animals was exposed to GSM fields (Global System of antennas for Mobile Communications) as described above whereas the other group of animals was not exposed to any GSM fields. In our study, results show that the quantity, diameter and numerical density of the islets of Langerhans in the pancreatic tissue increased in rats exposed to HF EMF compared to the unexposed group. The volume density, number and numerical density of pancreatic cells also changed in rats that were exposed to the HF EMF compared to the unexposed group. Our study shows a change in the stereological and histological parameters of rat pancreatic tissue due to the effects of HF EM fields produced by antennas for mobile communication.

Mobile Phones-Like Electromagnetic Fields Effects on Human Psychomotor Performance

2015 ◽  
pp. 694-704 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elia Valentini ◽  
Giuseppe Curcio
Keyword(s):  
Electromagnetic Fields ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Cognitive Functions ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Base Stations ◽  
Cellular Phones ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Human Volunteers ◽  
Biologic Effects ◽  
Ionizing Radiations

Nowadays nearly more than half of human beings on the planet are directly or indirectly exposed to an “evolutionary” novel physical agent: the electromagnetic fields (EMFs) emitted by cellular phones, base stations, as well as other types of wireless communication technologies. More than 10 years ago several studies reported that cognitive functions of human beings may have been altered while exposed to radiofrequency (RF) EMFs. Yet, the genuine effect of these non-ionizing radiations on human behaviour was not replicated by several other recent and more methodologically robust studies. Latest reviews and metanalyses confirmed the paucity of evidence in favour of psychomotor and cognitive effects of acute RF EMF exposure on human volunteers in well controlled laboratory settings. Thus, despite persisting concerns on potential biologic effects of acute RF EMFs irradiation, there is substantial lack of evidence that RF radiation can affect cognitive functions in humans.

Political Context Elements in Public Policy of Radio Frequency Information Technology and Electromagnetic Fields

2019 ◽  
pp. 346-364
Author(s):  
Joshua M. Steinfeld
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Information Technology ◽  
Radio Frequency ◽  
Electromagnetic Fields ◽  
Human Subjects ◽  
Base Stations ◽  
The Public ◽  
Frequency Information ◽  
Base Site ◽  
Political Narratives

There are widespread uses of radio frequency information technology (RADFIT) including applications related to communications, security, big data, military, transportation, space exploration, oceanography, agriculture, medical sciences, and more. Regulation of RADFIT is challenging and controversial as agencies and stakeholders struggle to balance benefits and costs. This powerful and invisible technology has the capacity to achieve breakthrough solutions by utilizing electromagnetic fields to collect, analyze, and transmit data, or to enact stimuli to create interventions for machines or living matter. However, the prevalence of RF base stations and electromagnetic fields has altered the environment and results in unintended absorption by human subjects. The public policy and politics of RADFIT, including the processes for base site installation and acceptable levels of absorption, have come to the forefront of discourse. This chapter discusses the political narratives that dictate public policy stances on the issue, bureaucratic considerations, and the response by communities.

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