The objectives of the project are to
- Provide scientific support to international EMF exposure
measurement standards. This will lead to harmonization of radiation
monitoring activities at the European level.
- Develop and validate, during a small-scale inter-laboratory
study, a protocol for performing real-life measurement campaigns
of exposure from base stations in European countries.
The project will include work in the following areas:
- Collection
and comparative evaluation of existing and emerging standards
and procedures for assessing electromagnetic radiation from
base stations.
- Application of numerical simulation or calculation methods to
support measurement.
- Validation and inter-comparison of software tools for predicting
exposure.
- Evaluation of the electromagnetic environment (what type of
electromagnetic fields might be found, methods to
check the environment, as well as investigate the impact of the
weather, materials of buildings, multi-source exposure).
- Averaging of field values (averaging over on area or volume
representing the human body
and/or averaging over
an area in respect to reproducibility of results; the most appropriate
averaging scheme will be the endpoint of the investigation.
- Identification of maximum field levels (aspects of reproducibility
of field maximum versus the reproducibility of averaged field levels
will be covered, different measurement methods to determine the
localization of the maximum will be compared, the necessary area
of investigation has to be determined).
- Determination of field homogeneity (the impact of the homogeneity
on the uncertainty budget will be determined).
- Comparison of field variation versus time.
- Verification of repeatability and reproducibility of results
(uncertainty considerations).
- Selection of measurement positions (pre-scans, simulations,
request).
- Development and determination of different measurement techniques
for different technologies (GSM, UMTS, TETRA).
- Selection of appropriate measurement equipment.
- Inter-laboratory validation of the developed assessment protocol.
- Presentation of strategy to estimate the real life RF exposure.
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