We are thrilled to announce that our first SONYC journal paper:
The Implementation of Low-cost Urban Acoustic Monitoring Devices
Charlie Mydlarz, Justin Salamon and Juan Pablo Bello
..has been accepted into the Applied Acoustics special issue: Acoustics for Smart Cities.
This is a high impact journal in the field of acoustics and is our flag in the ground for low cost urban noise sensing.
SONYC postdoc Charlie Mydlarz will be presenting and discussing his current and past work on Understanding Urban Soundscapes at the University of Pennsylvania Price Lab Mellon DH Seminar.
Where: Meyerson Conference Center, Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania
When: March 30, 2016 – 12:00–1:30pm
Click the event listing for more information.
Charlie Mydlarz of the SONYC team will be co-chairing a workshop on Analyzing and Recording Soundscapes: Theory and Applications at the Audio Engineering Society (AES) International Convention at the Javits Center on November 1st 2015.
If you’re into sound recording, acoustic ecology, or just have an interest in your own sonic environment, come over between 12:30 and 2:30 at room 1A14.
What: Analyzing and Recording Soundscapes: Theory and Applications
When: 12:30PM – 2:30PM | Sunday, November 1, 2015
Where: Javits Center | 655 W. 34th St. | Manhattan, NY 10018
Our paper “The design and calibration of low cost urban acoustic sensing devices”, presented at Euronoise 2015 in Maastricht, was awarded the best paper and presentation award with an award of €500!
The presentation can be viewed here and the full paper is available on the Publications page.
SONYC team member Charlie Mydlarz was invited to attend the NSF Early-Career Investigators Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems in Smart Cities in Seattle, April 13-17, 2015, with a travel stipend award of $1500 based on the submitted Position Paper.
SONYC was also offered the opportunity to present to the workshop attendees including a poster session after the talk with an extremely positive response.
Our paper “The design and calibration of low cost urban acoustic sensing devices” has been accepted for the 10th European Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering (EuroNoise) in Maastricht, The Netherlands, May 2015.
This paper details the sensors’ design, development and potential future applications, with a focus on the calibration of the devices’ Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) microphone in order to generate reliable decibel levels at the type/class 2 level.
The full paper is available on the Publications page.
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.
Our paper “The implementation of MEMS microphones for urban sound sensing” has been accepted for the Audio Engineering Society’s 139th Convention in Los Angeles, October 2014.
The paper details the microphone selection process, involving the comparison between a range of consumer and custom made MEMS microphone solutions in terms of their environmental durability, frequency response, dynamic range and directivity. Ultimately a MEMS solution is proposed based on its superior resilience to varying environmental conditions and preferred acoustic characteristics.
The full paper is available on the Publications page.
