Noise pollution is a serious problem in many cities. NoiseTube is a research project, started in 2008 at the Sony Computer Science Lab in Paris and currently hosted by the BrusSense Team at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, which proposes a participative approach for monitoring noise pollution by involving the general public. The NoiseTube mobile app extends the current usage of mobile phones by turning them into noise sensors enabling citizens to measure the sound exposure in their everyday environment. Furthermore each user can participate in creating a collective map of noise pollution by sharing geolocalized measurement data with the NoiseTube community.
By installing the free app on your smartphone, you will be able to measure the level of noise in dB(A), and tag the measurements obtained (e.g. subjective level of annoyance, source of sound,...). When uploaded to the website (3G, wifi or manually) you can check your sound trajectory on Google Maps.
NoiseTube is built in the spirit of open participation and the software that has been developed as part of the project has been placed under the GNU LGPL v2.1 open source license. The source code has been published on Google Code. We welcome anyone who wants to to contribute to the project (as a developer or otherwise) to contact us.
Data is sent to the NoiseTube server through internet in real-time.