Urban Noise Monitoring
As populations grow centred around urban areas, the noise environment invariably suffers from many of the activities that develop around the community. Whether it is transport like road and rail, factories and other places of work or the recreational activities that we undertake like motor sport or outdoor music concerts, our urban areas are getting noisier and less liveable.
In Europe the need for local authorities to provide a high standard of living for their communities led to the establishment of the European noise mapping directive 2002/49/EC. Whilst Noise mapping itself doesn’t need continuous noise monitoring, states must produce a noise action plan which highlights actions they intend to take to reduce the number of people affected. Operating a continuous noise monitoring regime with public presentation of the results can not only form part of you noise action plan it demonstrates your commitment to improving the living environment for your community and regular update allows you to track changes and take action to reduce noise impact. Of course, the need is not just in Europe and cities around the world are adopting a similar approach.
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Noise Sentinel service based noise monitoring enables you to demonstrate that you are taking community noise seriously, reporting trends, handling noise disturbances and publishing information to the Web.
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