The EMF Exposure Monitoring in Cellular Networks by Serbian EMF RATEL System

Abstract

The technologies of cellular networks have considerably evolved over the last few decades, becoming almost ubiquitous in population life. One of the main characteristics of those technologies is their foundation on electromagnetic field (EMF). Consequently, there is an expectation of even greater increase of human exposure due to multiple EMFs, generated by such technologies and their perspective evolutions, for instance, the fifth generation of mobile telephony-5G. Thus, the EMF monitoring process and the suitable assessment of human exposure to EMFs is an important topic for relevant research community, as well as for a number of public debates on dangerous health effects of EMF exposure. In this paper, an overview of the Serbian EMF RATEL network and its approach of continuous EMF monitoring will be presented, focusing on two case studies where base station (BS) acts as a dominant EMF source in the environment.