Thanks to our application you will be able to measure your exposure in dB(A) in real-time without the need of an expensive sound level meter. Measure your personal sound exposure and be more aware of your environment How much decibel am I exposed to during my day? Such information is currently hard to obtain for citizens. Motivations to participate in the NoiseTube experience 1. Afterwards the (collective) results can be visualisated on maps, as shown by the example in the 1st figure.
#NOISE MAPPING BASED ON PARTICIPATIVE PROFESSIONAL#
By installing a free application on your GPS-equipped mobile phone, you will be able to measure the level of noise in dB(A) (with a precision of few decibels compared to professional devices), comment on how you perceive the noise (tagging, subjective level of annoyance) and send all information (timestamp + geo-localized measurements + human input) automatically to the NoiseTube server through your phone's Internet connection. smart phones, PDAs) to form distributed sensor networks that enable public and professional users to gather, analyze and share local knowledge. Participatory sensing advocates the use of widely deployed mobile devices (e.g. More generally this research project investigates how the concept of participatory sensing can be applied to environmental issues and especially to monitor noise pollution. Our goal is to extend the current usage of mobile phones by turning them into noise sensors enabling each citizen to measure his own exposure in his everyday environment and participate in the collective noise mapping of his city or neighborhood. The project is focused on developing a new participative approach for monitoring noise pollution involving the general public. NoiseTube is a research project of the Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Paris. However, using our new technologies you can help to improve the monitoring of such environmental issues by contributing to the noise mapping of your neighbourhood or city and thus participate to a kind of "Wikimapia" of noise pollution. Although authorities in some big cities have launched campaigns to monitor the problem, the maps they create are not always easily accessible and are usually not detailed enough to grasp the variations (in time and space) in the noise people are exposed to. Noise pollution is a serious problem in many cities. The maps can be visualised using Google Earth. Nicolas Maisonneuve (Sony CSL Paris) Matthias Stevens (Vrije Universiteit Brussel / Sony CSL Paris) Luc Steels (Vrije Universiteit Brussel / Sony CSL Paris) In this "Instructable" you will learn how you can use your GPS-equipped mobile phone as a mobile station to measure your personal exposure to noise and participate to the collective noise mapping of your neighbourhood or city.