Participatory sound meter calibration system for mobile devices: Poster abstract

Sheng Chun Wu, Dong Yi Wu, Fu Hsiang Ching, Ling Jyh Chen

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Abstract

Noise exposure has been the emerging environmental factor for human health. Yet an accurate and large-scale sound monitoring network is not available due to the expense of high-quality professional sound level meters and poorly-calibrated low-cost noise sensors. In this work, we propose a participatory sound meter calibration using smartphones. The system employs a low-cost and open-sourced calibration station to conduct side-by-side sound measurements, and all the measurement data are uploaded to the open data portal to build calibration models for different phone brands and models. We show that, using our calibration models, the MAE of calibration performance can be reduced significantly from 12.4 dbA to 2.8 dbA for the same device and 3.3 dbA for the other device of the same phone model. The results of this study can benefit crowdsourcing-based large-scale sound measurements and facilitate noise exposure, public health, and smart city researches in the future.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSenSys 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 18th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages709-710
Number of pages2
ISBN (Electronic)9781450375900
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020 Nov 16
Externally publishedYes
Event18th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, SenSys 2020 - Virtual, Online, Japan
Duration: 2020 Nov 162020 Nov 19

Publication series

NameSenSys 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 18th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems

Conference

Conference18th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, SenSys 2020
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityVirtual, Online
Period2020/11/162020/11/19

Keywords

  • crowdsourcing
  • smartphone
  • sound meter calibration

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Computer Networks and Communications

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