Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering

The Electromagnetic Pollution of Wireless Electronic Equipment in Areas with High Human Accumulation

Abstract

Antonios P Skountzos, Dimitrios Nikolopoulos, Ermioni Petraki, Sofia Kottou and Panayotis H Yannakopoulos

Health concerns have been raised, especially following the enormous increase in the use of wireless mobile telephony (GSM, 3G and 4G) throughout the world. A similar situation exists regarding other digital wireless systems, such as data communication networks, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, DECT phones and CB’s which emit in various regions of the spectrum giving rise to cumulative radiation exposure. These concerns have induced a large body of research as mobile devices use electromagnetic waves in the microwave range. In the present work, we have measured the EMF of various emitting devices at different frequencies as well as the contribution of wireless emitting ones in various areas of special interest such as Universities, hospitals, airports. The peaking measurement was at the entrance of the airport (300 mV/m) and the minimum (7 mV/m) in a “neutral University location” with the least human accumulation in comparison with the other studied places. The other studied emitting devices showed a logarithmic decrease, which is significant up to 50 cm away from the base station.