Browsing Articles publicats en revistes by Subject "Soroll urbà"
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A WASN-Based Suburban Dataset for Anomalous Noise Event Detection on Dynamic Road-Traffic Noise Mapping
(Sensors. 2019, Vol. 19, No. 11, 2019-05)Traffic noise is presently considered one of the main pollutants in urban and suburban areas. Several recent technological advances have allowed a step forward in the dynamic computation of road-traffic ... -
Aggregate Impact of Anomalous Noise Events on the WASN-Based Computation of Road Traffic Noise Levels in Urban and Suburban Environments
(Sensors, 2020, Vol. 20 No 3, 2020-01)Environmental noise can be defined as the accumulation of noise pollution caused by sounds generated by outdoor human activities, Road Traffic Noise (RTN) being the main source in urban and suburban ... -
An Anomalous Noise Events Detector for Dynamic Road Traffic Noise Mapping in Real-Life Urban and Suburban Environments
(Sensors. 2017, Vol.17, No.10, 2017-10)One of the main aspects affecting the quality of life of people living in urban and suburban areas is their continued exposure to high Road Traffic Noise (RTN) levels. Until now, noise measurements in ... -
An Approach to Frequency Selectivity in an Urban Environment by Means of Multi-Path Acoustic Channel Analysis
(Sensors. 2019. Vol. 19, No. 12, 2019-06)The improvement of quality of life in the framework of the smart city paradigm cannot be limited to a set of objective measures carried out over several critical parameters (e.g., noise or air pollution). ... -
BCNDataset: Description and Analysis of an Annotated Night Urban Leisure Sound Dataset
(Sustainability, 2020, Vol. 12, No. 19, 2020-10)Acoustic pollution has been associated with adverse effects on the health and life expectancy of people, especially when noise exposure happens during the nighttime. With over half of the world population ... -
Design of a Mobile Low-Cost Sensor Network Using Urban Buses for Real-Time Ubiquitous Noise Monitoring
(Sensors. 2016, Vol. 17 No.1, 2016-12)One of the main priorities of smart cities is improving the quality of life of their inhabitants. Traffic noise is one of the pollutant sources that causes a negative impact on the quality of life of ... -
Detection of Anomalous Noise Events on Low-Capacity Acoustic Nodes for Dynamic Road Traffic Noise Mapping within an Hybrid WASN
(Sensors. 2018, Vol.18, No.4, 2018-04)One of the main aspects affecting the quality of life of people living in urban and suburban areas is the continuous exposure to high road traffic noise (RTN) levels. Nowadays, thanks to Wireless Acoustic ... -
Hierarchical Classification of Environmental Noise Sources by Considering the Acoustic Signature of Vehicle Pass-bys
(Archives Of Acoustics. 2012, Vol. 37, No.4, 2012-12)This work is focused on the automatic recognition of environmental noise sources that affect humans’ health and quality of life, namely industrial, aircraft, railway and road traffic. However, the ... -
Mapping the Sound Environment of Andorra and Escaldes-Engordany by Means of a 3D City Model Platform
(Urban Science. 2019, Vol. 3, No. 3, 2019-08)In the new paradigm of the smart cities world, public opinion is one of the most important issues in the new conception of urban space and its corresponding regulations. The data collection in terms of ... -
Noise at the time of COVID 19: The impact in some areas in Rome and Milan, Italy
(Noise Mapp, 2020, 7, 2020-11)The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed in Italy at the end of January 2020, when the first positive cases for the virus were identified. At the beginning of March, the virus had spread to all Italian regions ... -
On the Impact of Anomalous Noise Events on Road Traffic Noise Mapping in Urban and Suburban Environments
(International Journal Of Environmental Research And Public Health. 2017.15.1, 2017-12)Noise pollution is a critical factor affecting public health, the relationship between road traffic noise (RTN) and several diseases in urban areas being especially disturbing. The Environmental Noise ... -
Review of Wireless Acoustic Sensor Networks for Environmental Noise Monitoring in Smart Cities
(Journal of Sensors. 2019, 2019-05)Nowadays, more than half of the world’s population lives in urban areas. Since this proportion is expected to keep rising, the sustainable development of cities is of paramount importance to guarantee ... -
Smart Wireless Acoustic Sensor Network Design for Noise Monitoring in Smart Cities
(Sensors, 2020, Vol. 20 No 17, 2020-08)This Special Issue is focused on all the technologies necessary for the development of anefficient wireless acoustic sensor network, from the first stages of its design to the tests conductedduring ... -
Sons al balcó: Soundscape Map of the Confinement in Catalonia
(Engineering Proceedings, 2020, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2020-11)In this project, we aim to study the effect that the lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic has caused on the perception of noise in Catalonia. In Sons al Balcó, the research activities cohabit with the ... -
WASN-Based Day–Night Characterization of Urban Anomalous Noise Events in Narrow and Wide Streets
(Sensors, 2020, Vol. 20 No 17, 2020-08)In addition to air pollution, environmental noise has become one of the major hazards for citizens, being Road Traffic Noise (RTN) as its main source in urban areas. Recently, low-cost Wireless Acoustic ...