Our paper “The design of urban sound monitoring devices” has been accepted for the Audio Engineering Society’s 139th Convention in Los Angeles, October 2014.
The paper describes the design and build of a self-contained urban acoustic sensing device to capture, analyze, and transmit high quality sound from any given urban environment. The presented acoustic sensing device prototype incorporates a quad core Android based mini PC with Wi-Fi capabilities, a custom MEMS microphone and a USB audio device. The design considerations, materials used, noise mitigation strategies and the associated measurements are detailed in the following paper.
The full paper is available on the Publications page.