Open 5G wireless networks, which will provide faster data transfers, could lead to inaccurate weather forecasts.
The fact is that as the number of 5G devices increases, they will begin to interfere with the frequencies that satellites use to track the weather.
“ Our study is the first of its kind that quantifies the impact of 5G on weather forecast error and suggests there is an impact on the accuracy of weather forecasts,” said Professor Narayan B. Mandyam, who heads the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Science at the University’s School of Engineering.
The study used computer simulations to study the effect of 5G ” leakage” – an unintentional emission from a transmitter to a nearby frequency band or channel – on predicting the deadly Super Tuesday 2008 tornado outbreak in the US South and Midwest.
Signals from 5G frequency bands have the potential to leak into the frequency band used by meteorological sensors on satellites. Meteorologists rely on satellites to provide the data they need to predict the weather.
Based on the simulation, the 5G leakage power from -15 to -20 decibels watts ( decibels watts is a unit of power describing the strength of radio waves) influenced the accuracy of the forecast of precipitation ( up to 0.9 millimetres) during a tornado outbreak and temperatures near ground level ( up to 2, 34 degrees Fahrenheit).
“It turns out that the magnitude of the error found in our study is negligible or significant, depending on whether you are from the 5G engineering community or the forecaster community,” admitted Mandyam.
However, we need to work on both antenna technology and improved weather forecasting algorithms that can account for 5G leakage.
Earlier, NV wrote that the Ukrainian Ministry of Digital Transformation said that local authorities and utilities are increasingly preventing the deployment of mobile base stations due to radiophobia.
Citizens are not concerned about the action of such officials. “On the other hand, more people will be affected than live radiophones.”
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