Innovations in Urban Acoustics and Sustainable Built Environment
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Urban and Rural Development".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 November 2023) | Viewed by 1710
Special Issue Editor
Interests: sustainable acoustics; environmental acoustics; noise mapping; noise control and management; sound processing; internet of things for environmental monitoring; wireless sensor networks; smart cities services for sustainability; machine learning for sound and acoustics
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Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, architects, designers, engineers and managers of urban environments have paid special attention to developing and applying innovative methods to improve urban acoustics and create a sustainable building environment.
Within this area, concepts such as smart cities, the Internet of Things, big data and machine learning are disruptive technologies that enable innovation in sustainable urban management.
Current research is focused on the definition of new indices for a sustainable acoustic environment and buildings, together with methods and tools for their monitoring, analysis and even prediction. Within this common space, some themes can be suggested:
- Sustainable acoustic environment and building indices: definition and analysis.
- Innovative methods to measure and evaluate urban acoustics and sustainable built environment.
- Urban acoustics in smart cities.
- Internet of Things innovative networks, devices and applications to continuously monitor and analyze soundscapes.
- Big data methods for urban acoustics environment.
- Statistical and machine learning techniques for urban acoustics.
This Special Issue aims to expand this knowledge, and welcomes original research papers, case studies, critical perspectives and viewpoint articles on subjects including but not limited to the above.
I look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Juan Miguel Navarro
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- acoustic environment
- noise evaluation and analysis
- smart city
- noise pollution management
- wireless acoustic sensor network
- Internet of Things
- big data
- NGN
- machine learning
