NoiseScore is Noise and the City’s newest addition to our growing community resource toolbox. The NoiseScore application has been generously sponsored by The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced study and was developed to bring additional awareness to the rich yet complex nature of community noise and community noise issues. Noise is often treated as mere nuisance and not as an environmental stressor negatively impacting the health and mental well-being of those exposed to it. As a result, many residents’ concerns about noise levels within their communities are ignored.
The NoiseScore application is a free smart phone application that can be downloaded and utilized to share both objective and subjective reports of noise in your community. Specifically, with this smart phone application, you can report a community noise issue and:
- Record its corresponding decibel level
- Take a photo of video of the issue
- Answer a quick survey about your reactions to this sound
- Submit your response
Your responses are collected and are fed into a series of real-time heat maps located here at noisescore.com. These maps can be utilized to inform residents about the noise climate within their community via filters such as—ambient vs indoor; time of day, day of week, and types of noise most commonly found in community environments.
Whether you are at a loud restaurant, a quiet study area at your local library, under a flight path, or meditating in a park, we’d like to hear about it your community noise experience, WHEREVER YOU ARE!