Noisemap: An environmental noise monitoring sensor network

The environmental noise levels of our working areas have a critical impact on our psychological and physical health and business efficiency. Therefore; there is a need for systems that monitor environmental noise. In this paper, the sensor nodes equipped with microphones and participating smartphones are used to form an environmental noise monitoring network. This system allows monitoring of indoor areas such as offices and factories for the entire day. The sound pressure levels, which are associated with the time and location information, obtained from the work environments through the deployed network are transferred to the cloud. The resulting data are used to create noise maps of the environments.