MicroDB is showing its dBFlash ‘noise camera’ – a directional microphone antenna – that monitors vehicles and uses its linked video camera to photograph offending vehicles that are making the streets even noisier than they should be. Each vehicle that passes the monitoring point will trigger the measurement if it exceeds an acceptable noise threshold. Vehicle noise is isolated from other noise sources by high-resolution acoustic processing.
After almost four years in development, the company is in the process of certifying its new noise camera, in preparation for appropriate legislation in France: “If we succeed in certifying it this year, we should have our first product in the streets in 2025,” says Lucille Lamotte, who is responsible for marketing the system.
The UK is also considering the product, she says, with trials having been undertaken at four sites. A report on the trial results went to the UK government a few weeks ago and: “They want to go ahead with more experiments”, using the devices, Lamotte comments.
MicroDB is a specialist in acoustic measurement and integrates its ‘noise camera’ with a video and ANPR to pinpoint offending vehicles.
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