title: Traffic noise mapping of Indian roads through smartphone user community participation.
abstract: Road traffic noise pollution is a global hazard, and rapid urbanization has aggravated the problem. This paper explores a novel approach which involves a smartphone user community to monitor the prevalent noise. The system involves a client application on smartphones that records noise, processes the information and communicates to a server and shares the information as visual noise levels on Google® Maps. A fuzzy logic-based classification of noise is proposed. Results from residential, commercial, and industrial areas of the northern region of India are demonstrated. The noise levels are generally found to be higher than the prescribed standards. The experiment demonstrates the huge potential of user community participation in monitoring noise pollution.
authors.affiliation: Research Scholar, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Thapar University, Patiala, India. rajiv.jindal08@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Rajiv
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7522-9078
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.affiliation: Department of Civil Engineering, Curtin University, Bentley, Australia.
authors.forename: Abhijit
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mukherjee
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Thapar University, Patiala, India.
authors.forename: V P
authors.initials: VP
authors.lastname: Singh
mesh_terms: D003256:Community Participation; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000379:methods*; D017143:Fuzzy Logic; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D009622:Noise; D009624:Noise, Transportation; D000068997:Smartphone; D014507:Urbanization
keywords: Community participation; Environment noise monitoring; Fuzzy logic; Google® map; Noise map; Noise pollution; Smartphone