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The Electric and magnetic fields (EMF) Compliance Report gives the transmission power of

each antenna and minimum safe distance that must be observed between people and
antennas, according to the minimum distance specified. The report also indicates if each
antenna complies with this setting.

Typically, there are two kinds of Electric and magnetic fields (EMF) report scenarios for a
project:
 The Public EMF limit
 The Occupational EMF limit.

The public EMF limit defines the basic requirement for a public venue. The occupational EMF
limit defines the lowest level that can be occupational for human beings. The occupational EMF
limit is higher than the public one. In a public network design project, the public EMF limit is
used. You can decide which method to use for your current project.

There are two general Electric and magnetic fields (EMF) limit targets:

 Electric Field Limit E (linear with V/m units)


 Power Density Limit Pd (bilinear with W/m^2)

These targets will be used based on different project and region. For example, in USA, Power
Density Limit is the most commonly used criteria.
Electric and magnetic fields Report Pass and Fail Logic
1. Distance limit or Compliance distance: is the distance (Minimum) of the oberver based on
the security limits defined in the radiation safety code. The distance compliance of each
antenna (for each or all systems) is used to determine whether the target antenna meets the
Electric and magnetic fields (EMF) requirement or not.

The compliance distance is calculated based on:

 It compares the minimun distance for each system individually with the value entered.

 It calculates the minimun distance of the observer by considering all the systems
combined. This value is then compared with the comliance distance entered.

In the report output, this value is shown/considered on the " Distance Compliance" column
heading.

2. Power Limit: power limit compliance

Example: if 10dBm is entered for the power limit, then every time the antenna EiRP exceeds
the power limit, "Fail" is indicated; if compliant, "Pass" is indicated.

Power is calculated based on:

 Power is compared with the power for each system individually.

 Power is compared with the composite power of all systems combined at the antenna.

In the report output, this value is shown/considered on the " Power Compliance" column
heading.

Regarding the EMF limits, the limits for different region/ country will follow the regulation of the
corresponding area.
 

For US, we use FCC EMF safety standard (https://www.fcc.gov/general/radio-frequency-safety-0).

 You can find more information from WHO website for different region/countries
(http://www.who.int/peh-emf/en/).

So we created these limits to each system under difference region in the system database, as
the following picture:
LTE FDD (700MHz) example:

There are two general EMF limit targets, either based on Electric Field Limit  (linear with V/m
units) or Power Density Limit  (bilinear with W/m^2). These targets will be used based on
different project and region. For example, in USA, Power Density Limit is the most commonly
used criteria. In Europe, the Electric Filed Limit is more popular, as shown in the following picture.
The user can configure target, scenario, distance, and systems.

Normally the distance compliance of each antenna (for each/all system) will be used to determine
if the target antenna meets the EMF requirement or not. If the target distance is larger than the
compliance distance, the project will pass the EMF check, otherwise, it will fail the EMF check.
Based the above example, for the 700Mhz system, the power density limit, 4.67w/m^2 and
23.33w/m^2, is used to calculate the compliance distance.

Here is an example of the EMF limit value in Ranplan Pro.

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