Review Article

Review of Wireless Acoustic Sensor Networks for Environmental Noise Monitoring in Smart Cities

Table 1

State of the art of WASN projects for noise monitoring.

YearName of the projectLAeqAcousticSound (not ad hoc)Low-cost (ad hoc)Low-cost (ad hoc)
sig. proc.level meterhigh-capacitylow-capacity

2005Telos
2007Santini
2008SensorNet
2010Hakala
2011Burdwan
2011IDEA
2012SENSEable
2013Xiamen
2013MESSAGE
2014Smart sound monitoring
2015Barcelona NMN
2015RUMEUR
2015FISONIC
2016CENSE
2016UrbanSense
2016DYNAMAP
2017SONYC
2018Medusa
2018MONZA

Despite the fact that the authors detail it as a low-cost platform, its price is substantially higher than the other low-cost platforms.