Decentralized sensors to combat noise pollution hit the blockchain
A network of 35,000 sound sensors via smartphones was deployed on the peaq ecosystem to collect hyper-local noise pollution data for wellbeing. The Silencio Network has over 35,000 smartphones working as noise sensors via the Peaq blockchain ecosystem in an effort to combat the issue of global noise pollution . On Sept. 19, the Silencio Network announced its integration with Peaq as it continues to expand its reach to include more noise sensor devices. Silencio reports that the noise sensors working in its network cover 176 countries, and anticipates working on one million devices by next year. The project calls its work “Web3 citizen science” in which community members receive tokenized rewards for providing “hyper-local” noise pollution data. Cointelegraph spoke with the two co-founders of Silencio, brothers Thomas and Theo Messerer, about the reason behind tokenizing sound data. Thomas said the “seed” for the idea was planted over 20 years ago. Growing up with a hearing-i...