A joint project between GMC Green Mobile Communications A joint project between Auroville & IIIT, Bangalore In partnership with Telecom Centers of Excellence Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research TCOE, JIPMER and Pondicherry Engineering College
Are Mobile Communications safe? “Insufficiently protective of public health” Inter Ministerial Committee of India (Dec 2010) “Harmful to human health and environment” Council of Europe (May 2011) “Possibly carcinogenic” WHO (May 2011) “Carbon emission of 12 million tons” Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Feb 2011) Green Mobile Communications is a solution to the above concerns with a proof-of-concept pilot at Auroville.
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A joint project between
GMC
Green Mobile Communications
A joint project between
Auroville & IIIT, Bangalore
In partnership with
Telecom Centers of Excellence
Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research
TCOE, JIPMER and Pondicherry Engineering College
Agenda
• Introduction
• Concerns about EMR
• Motivation for GMC
• GMC Zone at Auroville• GMC Zone at Auroville
• Coverage and deployment
• Specifications and goals
• Stake holders
• Concluding remarks
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Wireless miracle?
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Electromagnetic Radiation
• Cell Towers– Safe limit for radiation
– Cell size
• Cell phones• Cell phones– Radiated power ( proportional to R2)
– Proximity
• Electromagnetic pollution – Depends on the total energy from BTS and cell
phones: function of safe limit/cell size, BTS, active
cell phones, range and call duration
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Safe exposure limits of EMRμW/m2 Source
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4,700,000 ICNIRP 1998
1,000 Austria
1,000 BioInitiative Working Group (2007)
170 Seletun Consensus Statement (2010)O
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10 Health Department , Salzburg (2002)
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100 BioInitiative Working Group (2007)
1 Health Department , Salzburg (2002)
< 0.1 Building Biology /’No concern’
Sleeping areas (2008)
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Increasing concerns about EMR
• 1998, ICNIRP - No long term effects
•2010, Inter Ministerial Committee - Current
limits not sufficiently protective of public health
• May 2011, Council of Europe - Reconsider the • May 2011, Council of Europe - Reconsider the
scientific basis and apply precautionary
principle, Protect children, Potentially harmful
to environment
• May 2011, WHO- Possibly carcinogenic to
humans (Group 2B)26 July 2011 6
Carbon foot print
• As per TRAI Consultation paper 3 Feb 2011,
the carbon foot print due to the electrical
power and diesel generators used for cell
towers used is estimated to be 13 million towers used is estimated to be 13 million