Electromagnetic pollution in urban areas

Abstract

The aim of this research is to perform a quick and mainly qualitative evaluation of the environmental radio frequency electromagnetic fields in some apartments and public places that are representative for most of the exposure situations that can occur in urban areas. This study can be a starting base for developing a risk of exposure evaluation questionnaire. Two types of exposure situations are considered in measurements: places situated in the vicinity (but in far field zone) of the main sources and places situated remotely from main sources. Also an exposure evaluation is performed for each case, taking into account the pollution from all sources together. There were found field levels of about tens to hundreds of mV/m and relative exposure of about 5×10-5 to 8×10-5 in the “source vicinity” cases and about few to tens of mV/m and relative exposure of about 3×10-6 to 1.4×10-5 in the “remotely by source” cases.