Use case 'Night noise'

The first contract for the project “Measuring environmental noise in Flanders” was issued at the end of 2021 and subsequently awarded to Ghent University in collaboration with the Provincial Institute for Hygiene (PIH). The aim of this contract is to develop an action plan for the use case “Determining personal noise exposure during the night and linking this to health effects, sleep disturbance and noise appreciation” and to validate and optimise it through a pilot project with repeated measurements among a limited number of users. This action plan must be able to be rolled out in concrete terms and on a larger scale at a later stage, including in the next cycle of the Flemish Human Biomonitoring Programme. The specifications can be found via e-Procurement. This assignment was carried out from February 2022 to November 2023. 

Use case 'Measurement network'

A second assignment was announced in early October 2022. The aim of this assignment is to set up a Proof of Concept (PoC) for the roll-out of a network of sensors in a citizen science project. The ultimate goal of this citizen science project is, on the one hand, to map environmental noise in Flanders, including the classification of noise sources in the (living) environment, and, on the other hand, to capture the appreciation of that environmental noise. The insights gained from this PoC will be developed into a concrete plan of action. This roadmap must be able to be rolled out to a larger population at a later stage, This will be done through an extensive citizen science project in which, on the one hand, semi-permanent measuring devices will be used to map environmental exposure in a more (as far as possible) area-wide manner and, on the other hand, a survey tool will be used to monitor noise appreciation in Flanders on a large scale.

The specifications can be found via e-Procurement. The deadline for submitting tenders was 7 November 2022 at 10 a.m. The assignment was carried out by Ghent University and Roger Van Overstraeten Society vzw (Scivil).