The Italian national electromagnetic field monitoring network

Troisi, Francesco; Boumis, Marina; Grazioso, P.

doi:10.1007/s12243-007-0011-4

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“…The dataset of this publication is impressive but it is unclear whether temporal trends are affected by the underlying heterogeneous dataset, whereas our study used the exact same procedure over the entire study period. Monitoring systems have been implemented in various cities in Europe, such as in Greece (Gotsis et al, 2008), Italy (Troisi et al, 2008) and Portugal (Oliveira et al, 2007). However, no analyses of time trends are available from these measurement networks.…”

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Temporal trends of radio-frequency electromagnetic field (RF-EMF) exposure in everyday environments across European cities

Urbinello

Joseph

Verloock

et al. 2014

Environmental Research

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BackgroundThe rapid development and increased use of wireless telecommunication technologies led to a substantial change of radio-frequency electromagnetic field (RF-EMF) exposure in the general population but little is known about temporal trends of RF-EMF in our everyday environment. ObjectivesThe objective of our study is to evaluate temporal trends of RF-EMF exposure levels in different microenvironments of three European cities using a common measurement protocol. MethodsWe performed measurements in the cities of Basel (Switzerland), Ghent and Brussels Within one year, total RF-EMF exposure levels in all outdoor areas combined increased by 57.1% (p<0.001) in Basel by 20.1% in Ghent (p=0.053) and by 38.2% (p=0.012) in Brussels Exposure increase was most consistently observed in outdoor areas due to emissions from mobile phone base stations. . In public transports RF-EMF levels tended also to increase but mostly without statistical significance.

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Section: Comparison Of Rf-emf Exposure Levels With the Literaturementioning

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Temporal trends of radio-frequency electromagnetic field (RF-EMF) exposure in everyday environments across European cities

Urbinello

Joseph

Verloock

et al. 2014

Environmental Research

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“…Troisi et al [] originally described the Italian network. The My Structured Query Language (MySQL) database [MySQL, ] is the largest database of electric field measurements known to us, containing a total of 50,662,433 lines of measurement data.…”

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“…The monitoring network comprised three different broadband probe measurement systems. Troisi et al [] reported that a total of 7,719 sites were monitored as follows: schools (2,087), public places (1,370), homes (4,131), and hospitals (131). Average monitoring time per site was 23 days.…”

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Observations from national Italian fixed radiofrequency monitoring network

Rowley

Joyner²

2016

Bioelectromagnetics

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We analyzed a database of more than 50 million data points from the national Italian fixed radiofrequency (RF) field monitoring network that was operational between June 2002 and November 2006. We applied a modified Regression on Order Statistics approach to reanalyze the database and to deal with the large proportion of entries (39.8%) below detection sensitivity of the probe systems. We found no more than an 18% variation in annual wideband levels during the 2002-2006 period. Mean value for mobile communications band was 0.047 μW/cm(2) for the period 2005-2006. Findings of this analysis are consistent with similar previous studies and we conclude that mean environmental RF levels from cellular mobile communications systems are typically less than 0.1 μW/cm(2) .

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“…On the other hand, mobile systems are an unavoidable part of modern life and cannot be easily removed or replaced. For these reasons, an objective assessment of the human exposure to the radio frequency (RF) electromagnetic radiation is of great importance [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]. Furthermore, exposure to RF electromagnetic field should be continuously monitored because of expected tremendous growth of traffic in future wireless networks [10] and dense implementation of small cells with base station installed closer to users [11].…”

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Conversion from mono-axial to isotropic measurements for assessing human exposure to electromagnetic fields of GSM/DCS/UMTS base stations

Koprivica

Nešković

2015

Ann. Telecommun.

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This paper proposes a way to assess total electric field strength by using mono-axial probe (instead of isotropic, tri-axial probe). When mono-axial probe is used, additional conversion factor should be applied. Consequently, the usage of mono-axial probe causes additional uncertainty in measurement results that should be taken into account. Measurement results for seven different environments show that the additional multiplicative conversion factor value of 1.95 should be applied and additional uncertainty in measurement results of 33.07 % should be taken into account.

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The Italian national electromagnetic field monitoring network

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Temporal trends of radio-frequency electromagnetic field (RF-EMF) exposure in everyday environments across European cities

Temporal trends of radio-frequency electromagnetic field (RF-EMF) exposure in everyday environments across European cities

Observations from national Italian fixed radiofrequency monitoring network

Conversion from mono-axial to isotropic measurements for assessing human exposure to electromagnetic fields of GSM/DCS/UMTS base stations

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