Nowadays, more than half of the world's population lives in urban areas. Since this
proportion is expected to keep rising, the sustainable development of cities is of paramount …

Noise pollution reduction in the environment is a major challenge from a societal and health
point of view. To implement strategies to improve sound environments, experts need …

The rapid urbanization process brings consequences to urban environments, such poor air
quality and the urban heat island issues. Due to these effects, environmental monitoring is …

With the increasing availability of affordable open-source embedded hardware platforms,
the development of low-cost programmable devices for uncountable tasks has accelerated …

Human comfort outdoors is widely investigated, but most studies explore the comfort
domains singularly. This paper aimed to evaluate human comfort in parks, verifying the …

Monitoring biodiversity and assessing the impact of human activities using acoustics is a
promising area in the field of urban ecology. Previous studies on urban biodiversity using …

Environmental noise directly affects well-being and productivity. On the one hand, high
sound levels are related to a variety of health symptoms such as high blood pressure and …

Policy decisions and urban governance are being influenced by an emergence of data from
internet of things (IoT), which forms the backbone of Smart Cities, giving rise to Big Data …

Distributed wireless sensor networks have been shown to be effective for environmental
monitoring tasks, in which multiple sensors are deployed in a wide range of the …

Presently, large cities have significant problems with noise pollution due to human activity.
Transportation, economic activities, and leisure activities have an important impact on noise …