Standardization of Computational Techniques for Compliance Evaluation of the Human Exposure in Automotive Environments

This paper presents the recent efforts to develop standards allowing numerical methods and techniques for accurate and representative simulations of human exposure to RF energy in automotive environments. The focus of this work is to standardize numerical and modeling procedures that produce repeatable results based on simulations of the human body exposure to RF energy emitted by mobile radios with vehicle- mount antennas. This activity is carried out in the framework of IEEE 1528.1 and IEEE 1528.2 standards development with the goal to provide a robust methodology for evaluating the compliance of vehicle-mount transmitters with respect to international exposure safety standards by means of numerical simulations.