As a rule, actions focused on making an urbanized area smarter are at the same time actions to improve the quality of life (comfort) of the inhabitants of such an area. This statement also includes - in my opinion - the problem of creating the most appropriate acoustic climate in a smart city, or rather in its components. I am intentionally not talking about noise reduction: being in absolute silence is one of the more sophisticated tortures. The comfortable living space is "acoustically varied": we expect a rather quiet space for rest (sleep) at night, but accept a more noisy dining and entertainment space, of course with restrictions on the night time, ie usually between 10.00 PM and 6.00 AM. However, in publications on acoustic phenomena in public space, I did not find too many studies on Smart City acoustics. Do you know such studies or studies?
Dear Jan Kaźmierczak , this is a very interesting question! maybe few studies are treating the acoustic issue in smart cities, but I think it falls down within the concept of "insulation in building construction" and it significant correlation with providing livable and sustainable cities.
Dear Hermann and Amine, thank you very much for your comments on the discussion initiated by me. Evidently, acoustic insulation is a common approach. Still, I would like to find some ideas not how to decrease the level of acoustic noise in buildings, but how to create in the interior of the building an "acoustic atmosphere" that fits the expectations of inhabitants. I am also looking for people interested in such a manner of thinking, because I have suggested the Scientific Committee of 27th International Congress of Sound and Vibration to provide in the Congress program a special session labeled as "Acoustics in Smart City" (or - maybe better - "Sounds of Smart City"?). Are you interested in (the deadline for abstracts is 31st of January)?
I consider this a very interesting topic. In Mexico, we deal with a very large array of noises, from medium to high range, where uneven distribution of land use and in some cases, locating houses and workplaces right beside a highway, just accepting this harmful noises as an everyday situation, not realizing that this could be regulated.
Understanding the wide broad chances that smart-cties can give, it should be thought as a urban measure to take account.
I am intensely looking for it, but up to now, my efforts are unsuccessful. Therefore, I am also intensely looking for people who know something or who intend to engage in this area of problems.
Let me share some regulations from Switzerland:
https://www.bafu.admin.ch/bafu/fr/home/themes/bruit/info-specialistes/mesures-contre-le-bruit/mesures-contre-le-bruit-des-chantiers.html
https://www.ge.ch/bruit-voisinage#:~:text=R%C3%A8gles%20concernant%20le%20bruit%20de%20voisinage&text=Conform%C3%A9ment%20%C3%A0%20la%20loi%2C%20les,toute%20heure%20dans%20l'immeuble.&text=De%20nuit%2C%20chacun%20doit%20s,troubler%20le%20repos%20des%20habitants
I hope it helps you.
Dear Jorge, thank you for sharing the regulations from Switzerland. It is certainly important, there are many legal documents in various countries as well as adopted on the level of EU (for instance the regulations concerning problems of acoustic mapping of urban areas) but let me state again: the particularly correlated problems: "Smart City" + "Urban acoustic" are up to now poorly recognized by researchers. Did you find some publications in this "sophisticated" field?
I'm dping some research, and so far, i have found this from MIT:
https://www.media.mit.edu/groups/smart-cities/overview/
and from this:
https://fab.city/
But i wll keep digging deeper and trying to find some publications or at least abstracts that respond to this.
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