Sound sensor demoMay 11, 2016Rio de Janeiro

#ResilientRio

Wednesday - Sound

Time Topic / Activity

10:00 – 11:00 Kick off sound sensors day

11:00 – 13:00 Building sensors

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 – 16:00 Field work / Tech support

16:00 – 17:00 Team updates

Tech Support Pieter Taco

14:00 - 14:30 Slot 1 Slot 1

14:45 - 15:15 Slot 2 Slot 2

15:30 - 15:45 Slot 3 Slot 3

http://www.slideshare.net/ptmvanboheemen

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Local issue

“In Rio de Janeiro at least sixty percent of the complaints received by the Municipal Commission for the Environment (SMAC) are related to unwanted noise.”

http://riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/opinion-editorial/opinion/the-sound-of-pollution/

Causes of Noise Pollution

• Traffic• Festivals• Industry• Architecture• City planning

Effects of Noise Pollution

• Serious health effects mediated by the human endocrine system:• Sleep disturbance• Cardiovascular diseases• Annoyance (a feeling of discomfort affecting general well-being)• Cognitive impairment• Mental health problems

• Direct effects: • Tinnitus

http://ec.europa.eu/environment/noise/index_en.htm

WHO• 19.8 million adults in Europe are annoyed by noise from road traffic,

railways, aircrafts or industry• 9.1 million of them are highly annoyed

• 7.9 million adults have sleep disturbance due to night time noise• 3.7 million of them are severely sleep disturbed• 910 thousand additional prevalent cases of hypertension• 43 thousand hospital admissions • 10 thousand premature deaths

• per year

http://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/environment-and-health/noise/publications/2011/burden-of-disease-from-environmental-noise.-quantification-of-healthy-life-years-lost-in-europe

Noise levels Amsterdam

http://waag.org/en/news/measuring-noise-amsterdam

Simulation

Measurements:• 5 minutes average• 1.5 meter from the

ground

Noise levels Rio

• http://www.datakustik.com/fileadmin/user_upload/PDF/noisemapping_copacabana.pdf

Regulation in Europe• Directive 2002/49/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council,

of 25 June 2002• Noise mapping obligatory for cities > 250,000 inhabitants• Renewed every 5 years• Published by NOISE: Noise Observation and Information Service for

Europe

NOISE viewer

http://noise.eionet.europa.eu/viewer.html

NoiseTube

http://noisetube.net/cities

Sensors

Sound level sensors

Smart Citizen Kit

Microphone module

Microphone module

Tools

Noise under water?

http://www.1000001labs.org/hydroino/

DemonstrationMicrophone Module

Checkin Wheel

• Names on the outside• What you had for

breakfast• Feeling about the

workshop thus far• Task of today

Checkin Wheel

Additional resources• Noise Mapping of Densely Populated Neighbourhoods - Example of

Copacabana http://www.datakustik.com/fileadmin/user_upload/PDF/noisemapping_copacabana.pdf

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