Study of the electromagnetic exposure from mobile phones in a city like environment: The case study of Leuven, Belgium.
Base station
Electromagnetic exposure
Mobile communications
Mobile phone
Journal
Environmental research
ISSN: 1096-0953
Titre abrégé: Environ Res
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 0147621
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
08 2019
08 2019
Historique:
received:
19
02
2019
revised:
15
05
2019
accepted:
17
05
2019
pubmed:
4
6
2019
medline:
7
1
2020
entrez:
3
6
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
A measuring campaign for the assessment of electromagnetic exposure levels from mobile phones in the city center of Leuven, Belgium, has been carried out. The main objective of the assessment is to study the dependency of the exposure of the user by his own mobile phone in terms of location in the city (very close to base stations and at randomly selected locations). The measurements were performed in both public and private areas in 60 outdoor and 60 indoor locations in Leuven. The campaign was focused on GSM 900 mobile communications. The results show that the exposure is considerably higher for indoor environments compared to outdoor environments, and at the randomly chosen locations compared to locations very close to base stations. However, the most important observation is that the average outdoor exposure in Leuven of the user of a mobile phone is about 8 times higher than the average outdoor exposure by base stations. Indoors, this factor rises to about 30.
Identifiants
pubmed: 31154230
pii: S0013-9351(19)30287-7
doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2019.05.029
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
402-413Informations de copyright
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