Tackling Noise Pollution with Smart Solution

Noise pollution in urban areas is a serious threat to the health and wellbeing of city inhabitants. City government must take deliberate action to prevent the damage to their inhabitants. To help city government as well as other city stakeholder reduce the noise pollution, Bello et al. (2019) invented SONYC (Sound of New York City) a system for monitoring, analysing, and mitigating urban noise pollution with its first case study in New York, one of the busiest and noisiest cities in the world. Through this system, public agencies not only could get information of noise in the city through its sensors but also analyse and conduct modelling for interventions that mitigate and tackle the problem. The integrated system supports the holistic approach to the problem that could give a relevant and valid base for public policy and strategies to deal with noise pollution. 

Reference:

Bello, J. P., Silva, C., Nov, O., Dubois, R. L., Arora, A., Salamon, J., ... & Doraiswamy, H. (2019). Sonyc: A system for monitoring, analyzing, and mitigating urban noise pollution. Communications of the ACM, 62(2), 68-77.

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