Patent ID: 7031663

Claim:
A system for performing environmental measurements and for transferring measuring data, wherein the system comprises: a plurality of base stations of a cellular radio system, each base station forming a cell and the plurality of base stations forming a cellular radio network, the base stations comprising means for transferring data in the cellular radio system, a plurality of environmental measuring stations each being connected to one of the plurality of base stations, the measuring stations comprising measuring means for performing environmental measurements, and control means for transferring measuring data to the respective base station that it is connected to for transferring the measuring data further over said cellular radio system, and each said environmental measuring station is physically placed on the same site as the base station that it is connected to and is physically connected to the respective base station, a central equipment connected to the cellular radio system for collecting environmental measuring data from the plurality of environmental measuring stations through the base stations of the cellular radio system, and terminal devices of the cellular radio system for receiving data relating to the environmental measurements via the cellular radio system.