Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Computing Methodologies and Communication (ICCMC 2021)

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IoT based Noise Detector with Automatic Recording

System
2021 5th International Conference on Computing Methodologies and Communication (ICCMC) | 978-1-6654-0360-3/20/$31.00 ©2021 IEEE | DOI: 10.1109/ICCMC51019.2021.9418394

P.M.Benson Mansingh Dr.T.Joby Titus Dr.G.Sekar A.Shankar

AP(ECE), Department of AP(Sr.Gr), Department of AP(Sr.Gr), Department of AP(Sr.Gr), Department of
ECE ECE ECE ECE
Sri Ramakrishna Institute of Sri Ramakrishna Institute of Sri Ramakrishna Institute of Sri Ramakrishna Institute of
Technology Technology Technology Technology
Coimbatore, India Coimbatore, India Coimbatore, India Coimbatore, India
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Abstract—Talking loudly is an infuriating habit in an office monitor noise level at traffic signal [11] & [12]. A 2D
environment as well as in industry the machine noise is quiet convolution neural network with Tensor flow frame work is
annoying. The office environment with loud co-workers can used to collect urban sound database [13]. M B Badruddin
distract the work and reduce the work efficiency. The machine et.al. proposed a method to monitor the noise level on two
noise in an industry environment above 85dBA affects the different days in weekday and weekend[14]. The recent
hearing capacity. To help and solve this issue, a noise detector technological idea is to integrate the real time data collected
with instinctive recording device is proposed. This device informs from sensor nodes mapped with the cloud database to analyze
the user about the noise level and whenever the noise level the frequent variation of noise impact. The scope of paper is
exceeds the limit, it automatically records the sound and its
duration. This system finds wide advantage for labors in not limited with specific application and it broadly serves noise
industry, which provides frequent warning information to the level monitoring at different environment. The rest of the paper
user if the noise limit exceeds. is organized as follows: section 2 elaborates the existing the
noise level monitoring system. Section 3 describes the
Keywords— Arduino Uno; Noise Detector; Recorder; S ensor proposed model and its function. In section 4 the analysis and
node; Thinkspeak; cluster; CC2500 Transceiver results of noise level and section 5 concludes the p roposed
model.

I. INT RODUCT ION

II. EXISTING METHOD
The recent technological development due to IOT device
serves the purpose to measure environmental factors with
compactible device. Noise exposure level affects the In this technological era different environmental
psychological and physical health. The impact of noise level parameters are considered for designing pollution monitoring
induces hearing loss, tinnitus, hypertension and other system. The existing models collects the sensor data at fixed
cardiovascular effects. A survey on industrial noise determines interval of time once the microcontroller is enabled. Precisely
that about 75 percentage of workers in industrial location are monitoring sensor data is a difficult task as it is more inclined
more inclined to psychological disturbance. Around 30 to 60 to fluctuation in values. Lalit Mohan Joshi[9] developed a
percentage of workers severely affected and has nervous and noise level monitoring system, which uses wireless sensor
hearing complications [1]. An assessment performed on technique with movable sensor nodes. A four-tier model
domestic and free-living animals are open to biotic and abiotic includes environmental module, sensor module, data
stimulus exposed to industrial noise [2]. Exposure to excessive acquisition module and smart environment. The parameters for
noise level has the effect of absorption infuriation. measurement are decided by environmental module and the
Communication disorder, sleeping ailment and similar sensor module decides the sensitivity range to measure
complications. Latest world Health Organization report environment parameter. Tier 2 and 3 decides the threshold
propose that there is no systematic monitoring device to value and the method of data acquisition. The noise level is
measure noise pollution in a densely populated area [3]. Most fully analyzed and communicated in fourth.
trivial real-world parameters and monitored and analyzed using
Recent development in wireless sensor network has
Internet of Thing (IOT). The manual way of analyzing the
emerged to closely monitor several environmental parameters
database in one location is minimized with smart devices with
gathered from different locations. The sensor nodes generate
remote access [4]. The sensor data collected from one location
can be transferred for remote analysis through different huge data which develops strain on transmission network. The
communication methods [5] & [6]. The relay activity through environmental noise adds additional background noise and
different ports and the activation of wifi enabled leads to reduction in precision of recognition. A noise level
microcontroller for specific application is listed in [7] and [8]. detector is modelled with data acquisition from sensor nodes
Piyush Patil and Huang et.al developed a system specifically to and further analysis done with embedded processing board.

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Liyan Luo, et.al [10] used different colour circles to represent
the noise levels. The noise mapping is more prone to
environmental variation. This model of noise mapping
depends on the accuracy of sensor nodes and the
communication channel to map the noise level. The system
implemented with minimum number of sensor nodes can
collect precise data with minimum delay for noise mapping.

III. PROPOSED SYSTEM

The proposed model is designed analogous with wireless
sensor network. The sensor nodes are designed with swarm
Fig. 2. Block diagram of cluster node
intelligence to measure the noise level. The advantag e of this
model is to develop a swarm architecture for data acquisition The cluster node includes an Arduino mega microcontroller
at sensor nodes. The architecture is modelled with a set of interfaced with sound detector, Acoustic pressure sensor and
cluster nodes in which each cluster nodes includes a primary High amplitude pressure senor. The data received from sensor
sensor node and the remaining sensor nodes within the cluster is compared with the threshold limit and if the noise level
act as secondary nodes. The cluster node refers to collection of exceeds 50dBA the data is transferred from the cluster head to
five sensor node activated at regular time interval to measure Raspberry Pi3 controller through CC2500 transceiver.
noise level. A distributed senor node is provided to measure The noise information is communicated to the application
different noise level parameters. The sensor nodes are solar location through API of Thinkspeak channel. The realtime
powered and act as independent noise level monitoring point. sensor data is monitored from remote location. Thinkspeak
Fig 1 shows the proposed model of allotting sensor nodes as provides open data platform for public or private monitoring.
three clusters. The design of our proposed model includes four The reason for choosing Thinkspeak app for noise level
secondary sensor nodes to transfer the noise level to primary monitoring is it supports graphical representation of data.
nodes. The noise level measured in secondary node is
transferred to primary node, if the value is greater than 85 IV. RESULT S
dBA. The data obtained from each cluster is analyzed by The proposed cluster node is implemented to collect the
raspberry pi3 controller comparing with the threshold value of noise level from three different zones. Our proposed model
85dBA. The value above threshold limit is directed as warning uses three LM393 sound detector, Acoustic pressure sensor
information to the certain location. Raspberry pi3 plays the and high amplitude pressure sensor to measure noise level.
major role in analyzing the noise level in different cluster. Cluster node in zone 1 collects the sensor data from
auditorium, home, small scale industry and railway station
platform. The noise measurement indicates the noise range
between 60 to 90 dBA as shown in Fig 3.

Fig. 1. Block Diagram of noise detector

Each cluster act as sensor nodes designed with swarm

intelligence model. The swarm system is implemented for
collective data acquisition of noise level in each cluster with a
centralized control. The sensor node fault can be easily
identified as one of the node with in the cluster behaves as the Fig.3. Measurement from low noise source
master node. The block diagram of cluster node is shown in
Cluster node-2 provides the noise level measured
Fig 2.
from high noise source. Fig 4 shows the noise level collected
from firecrackers, Aeroplane Take-off, Jackhammer, Sirens.
The noise level lies in the range of 120 to 150 dBA.

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 system provides frequent warning information if the cluster
data exceeds the threshold limit of 85 dBA. Raspberry Pi
interfaced
with Thinkspeak API provides IoT platform combined with
cloud storage location to record the noise levels
at different cluster nodes. Furthermore, the proposed model
provides viability to fix cluster nodes based on the usage and
also to vary the threshold value.

A CKNOWLEDGMENT
Fig. 4. Measurement from high noise source This Research project was supported and carried out at
Department of ECE, Sri Ramakrishna Institute of Technology,
Cluster node-3 provides the noise level of cluster group of Coimbatore. We would like to thank our Management,
noise source. Fig 5 shows the data obtained from four lane Principal and Research supervisor for supporting us with the
traffic signal, railway station, Textile and paper industry, facilities to carry out the proposed model.
Foundry and ceramics industry
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