Personal exposition to radiofrequency electromagnetic radiation in Albacete (Spain)

During the last decade, several studies have characterized personal exposition to non-ionizing electromagnetic fields using personal portable exposimeters with a very high resolution. 76 volunteers participated in a study in the city of Albacete (Spain) measuring during 24 hours, every 10 seconds and doing normal life. We geolocalized every measurement using a GPS and a personal diary stablishing 15 different microenvironments and we searched for statistical temporal and spatial differences using U of Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis tests. 90 percent of valid data of the different frequency bands that we finally considered were below 0.0003 W/m², FM and DECT bands registered greater mean values, followed by uplink mobile frequency bands. An important aspect of the analysis was the number of non-detects that reached more than 50% of total data in most frequency bands; only GSM_DL, DCS_DL, DECT, UMTS_DL, and WiFI were below.