Sounding out Smart Cities: Auralization and Soundscape Monitoring for Environmental Sound Design

TY - CONF

T1 - Sounding out Smart Cities: Auralization and Soundscape Monitoring for Environmental Sound Design

AU - Southern, Alexander Paul

AU - Stevens, Francis

AU - Murphy, Damian Thomas

PY - 2017/6/25

Y1 - 2017/6/25

N2 - Auralization is key in developing a better understanding of how significant changes or infrastructure planning in our urban environmentcan have an impact on our related environmental soundscape. It allows consultants, planners and other stakeholders to hear thepotential acoustic changes that might result, so that designs might be better optimized; it is also a valuable dissemination tool for informingthe public as to the nature of such changes. Auralization also facilitates subjective soundscape assessment of proposed developmentsat the design stage and once construction is complete, smart sensor networks enable soundscape monitoring and objective evaluated onan ongoing basis. Of particular interest is sound emitted from transportation, as it is generally considered as unwanted sound and hencedefined as noise. Transportation noise and road traffic noise in particular, is considered a concern for public health by the WHO, andannoyance with some aspect of our daily soundscape is not uncommon. This work presents an overview of how auralization has beenused in the context of some recent transportation noise related case studies. The complete auralization chain is presented includingsource measurement and soundscape monitoring, sound propagation modeling using numerical simulation, soundfield rendering, and thepotential for immersive multimodal presentation

AB - Auralization is key in developing a better understanding of how significant changes or infrastructure planning in our urban environmentcan have an impact on our related environmental soundscape. It allows consultants, planners and other stakeholders to hear thepotential acoustic changes that might result, so that designs might be better optimized; it is also a valuable dissemination tool for informingthe public as to the nature of such changes. Auralization also facilitates subjective soundscape assessment of proposed developmentsat the design stage and once construction is complete, smart sensor networks enable soundscape monitoring and objective evaluated onan ongoing basis. Of particular interest is sound emitted from transportation, as it is generally considered as unwanted sound and hencedefined as noise. Transportation noise and road traffic noise in particular, is considered a concern for public health by the WHO, andannoyance with some aspect of our daily soundscape is not uncommon. This work presents an overview of how auralization has beenused in the context of some recent transportation noise related case studies. The complete auralization chain is presented includingsource measurement and soundscape monitoring, sound propagation modeling using numerical simulation, soundfield rendering, and thepotential for immersive multimodal presentation

KW - Auralization

KW - soundscape

KW - environmental acoustics

M3 - Abstract

T2 - Acoustics17 - Boston

Y2 - 25 June 2017 through 29 June 2017

ER -