The SENSEable Pisa Project: Citizen‐Participation in Monitoring Acoustic Climate of Mediterranean City Centers

Vinci, Bruna; Tonacci, Alessandro; Caudai, Claudia; Rosa, Paolo; Nencini, Luca; Pratali, Lorenza

doi:10.1002/clen.201600137

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“…Such approaches are however limited to very small areas (WSNs with less than 10 nodes), being that their costs are prohibitive and do not allow a flexible adaptation of the signal processing algorithms at the sensor9 level. On the other hand, the systems presented in [87][88][89] aim at providing a fairer balance between deployment costs and achieved accuracy by relying on low-cost acoustic sensors that can only measure global aggregated levels of equivalent noise, but they enable a more pervasive installment of the WSN over the monitored area.…”

Section: Wsn For Air Monitoringmentioning

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Toward Integrated Large-Scale Environmental Monitoring Using WSN/UAV/Crowdsensing: A Review of Applications, Signal Processing, and Future Perspectives

Fascista

2022

Sensors

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Fighting Earth’s degradation and safeguarding the environment are subjects of topical interest and sources of hot debate in today’s society. According to the United Nations, there is a compelling need to take immediate actions worldwide and to implement large-scale monitoring policies aimed at counteracting the unprecedented levels of air, land, and water pollution. This requires going beyond the legacy technologies currently employed by government authorities and adopting more advanced systems that guarantee a continuous and pervasive monitoring of the environment in all its different aspects. In this paper, we take the research on integrated and large-scale environmental monitoring a step further by providing a comprehensive review that covers transversally all the main applications of wireless sensor networks (WSNs), unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and crowdsensing monitoring technologies. By outlining the available solutions and current limitations, we identify in the cooperation among terrestrial (WSN/crowdsensing) and aerial (UAVs) sensing, coupled with the adoption of advanced signal processing techniques, the major pillars at the basis of future integrated (air, land, and water) and large-scale environmental monitoring systems. This review not only consolidates the progresses achieved in the field of environmental monitoring, but also sheds new lights on potential future research directions and synergies among different research areas.

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Section: Wsn For Air Monitoringmentioning

confidence: 99%

Toward Integrated Large-Scale Environmental Monitoring Using WSN/UAV/Crowdsensing: A Review of Applications, Signal Processing, and Future Perspectives

Fascista

2022

Sensors

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“…The literature reveals that one of the motivations to adopt a citizen-science approach is the lower costs involved in gathering data (e.g., Vinci et al 2017) compared with expensive equipment used to measure or monitor precise numerical data (Cunha et al 2017).…”

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Mapping the current landscape of citizen-driven environmental monitoring: a systematic literature review

Rathnayake

Joshi

Pargman

2020

Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy

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Citizen observatories can be defined as socio-technical constellations designed to make people who are nonprofessional scientists empowered entities. By enabling citizens to monitor their environment via collection and sharing of data, citizen observatories can be viewed as an application or iteration of citizen science. This article contributes to mapping out the current landscape of citizen engagement and participation in environmental monitoring. We draw on a systematic analysis of 57 peer-reviewed papers and argue that citizen observatories have the potential to make a substantial social impact by bringing together different stakeholders and digital technologies. We also discuss the challenges of civic participation, quality of the data gathered, and long-term sustainability. The article identifies several critical gaps in the field that provide a guide for future studies on citizen observatories. Furthermore, it encourages deeper engagement within developing nations and investigates the impact of this approach on nurturing sustainable societies globally.

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“…Other cities involved citizens to install noise sensors located on private houses [38] or using mobile phones [39]. The use of mobile phones as an acoustic node is recently on the rise.…”

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Long-Term Temporal Analysis of Psychoacoustic Parameters of the Acoustic Environment in a University Campus Using a Wireless Acoustic Sensor Network

Montoya-Belmonte

Navarro

2020

Sustainability

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Higher education institution campuses have been growing in size to become small cities that encompass all the infrastructures and offer many services to the university community. In order to achieve sustainable growth, it is necessary to take into account different environmental aspects, including the acoustic environment. In this paper, the application of a wireless acoustic sensor network is proposed for the long-term analysis of psychoacoustic parameters of the acoustic environment in a university campus. A network of acoustic nodes is designed and four nodes are deployed at both indoor and outdoor locations of the campus for environmental noise monitoring. A measurement campaign has been running continuously for nine months, including three months in which the state of emergency due to COVID-19 pandemic was established and the university switched to online classes. Acquired and stored data include not only the basic sound level parameters, e.g., equivalent or percentile sound pressure levels, but also psychoacoustic parameters, that are more related with noise assessment of the environment, e.g., loudness or sharpness sound levels. After analysing the acoustic environment of the campus through the complete set of nodes, results show two zones with higher noise indicators where some action plan should be developed. A detailed analysis of the temporal evolution of noise levels in these acoustically saturated zones is done, comparing values between a period of regular activity and the period of state of emergency. Different frequency distributions of sound levels are detected between day and evening periods providing a better insight into the noise sources. The results also show that binaural psychoacoustic annoyance values are correlated with loudness values in these locations, however sharpness values have minor effects.

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The SENSEable Pisa Project: Citizen‐Participation in Monitoring Acoustic Climate of Mediterranean City Centers

Cited by 11 publications

References 18 publications

Toward Integrated Large-Scale Environmental Monitoring Using WSN/UAV/Crowdsensing: A Review of Applications, Signal Processing, and Future Perspectives

Toward Integrated Large-Scale Environmental Monitoring Using WSN/UAV/Crowdsensing: A Review of Applications, Signal Processing, and Future Perspectives

Mapping the current landscape of citizen-driven environmental monitoring: a systematic literature review

Long-Term Temporal Analysis of Psychoacoustic Parameters of the Acoustic Environment in a University Campus Using a Wireless Acoustic Sensor Network

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