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- Title
Low-Cost Distributed Acoustic Sensor Network for Real-Time Urban Sound Monitoring.
- Authors
Vidaña-Vila, Ester; Navarro, Joan; Borda-Fortuny, Cristina; Stowell, Dan; Alsina-Pagès, Rosa Ma
- Abstract
Continuous exposure to urban noise has been found to be one of the major threats to citizens' health. In this regard, several organizations are devoting huge efforts to designing new in-field systems to identify the acoustic sources of these threats to protect those citizens at risk. Typically, these prototype systems are composed of expensive components that limit their large-scale deployment and thus reduce the scope of their measurements. This paper aims to present a highly scalable low-cost distributed infrastructure that features a ubiquitous acoustic sensor network to monitor urban sounds. It takes advantage of (1) low-cost microphones deployed in a redundant topology to improve their individual performance when identifying the sound source, (2) a deep-learning algorithm for sound recognition, (3) a distributed data-processing middleware to reach consensus on the sound identification, and (4) a custom planar antenna with an almost isotropic radiation pattern for the proper node communication. This enables practitioners to acoustically populate urban spaces and provide a reliable view of noises occurring in real time. The city of Barcelona (Spain) and the UrbanSound8K dataset have been selected to analytically validate the proposed approach. Results obtained in laboratory tests endorse the feasibility of this proposal.
- Subjects
BARCELONA (Spain); SENSOR networks; ACOUSTIC radiators; PLANAR antennas; PUBLIC spaces; ANTENNA radiation patterns; ACOUSTIC transducers
- Publication
Electronics (2079-9292), 2020, Vol 9, Issue 12, p2119
- ISSN
2079-9292
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/electronics9122119