# Street Noise Levels

## Description

This feature allows users to see the average and historic street noise levels around the globe. Silencio’s community has created the world’s most comprehensive hyperlocal street-noise-level data bank available.

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## **The Problem We Are Solving**

Have you ever wondered how loud a house, apartment, or office space is before deciding to rent or buy? Have you ever wondered where you can find peace and tranquility within ever-growing cities? Noise-level datasets today are mostly computed and lack hyperlocal actual data. Silencio solves this problem by generating valuable hyperlocal environmental data to help inform life-changing decisions.



## User Utility

* **Find a quiet home or office:** Compare noise levels at different real estate locations.
* **Find quiet places in your city:** Identify quiet neighborhoods or areas.
* **Plan quieter routes:** Avoid running into noise hotspots and improve your daily exposure to noise pollution.



## Commercial Use

* **Real estate:** Accurately value properties based on location-specific noise levels and trends. Provide deeper environmental data insights for customers and help them make smarter investment decisions.
* **Urban planning:** Optimize infrastructure and zoning decisions.
* **Transportation:** Improved route planning and logistics efficiency.
* **Smart cities:** Enhanced noise pollution management and resource allocation.
* **Tourism:** Tailored recommendations based on real-time location data.
* **Short-term rentals:** Compare noise levels around short-term rentals.
* **Academia:** Understanding the effects of noise pollution on public health.
* **Insurance:** Assess the risk of health issues related to noise pollution.

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## How is the Dataset Collected?

If you would like to contribute to the venue check-in data set, please follow these steps:

**Step 1** Initiate an active measurement from the  [Silencio mobile app](https://www.silencio.network/silencio-app).

**Step 2** Walk around the neighborhood with the phone outside your pocket or purse, measuring your surrounding dB(A) in numerical form (we do not record any audio content).

**Step 3** Finalize the measurement and claim your in-app rewards!

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## Data Commercialization Model

Our data is sold via API calls (visit our [website](https://www.silencio.network/business) for more information).



## Target Customers

Our offerings cater to diverse audiences: B2B partnerships with real estate platforms (e.g., Zillow, Realtor.com, Redfin, Trovit), short-term rental platforms (e.g., Airbnb, Booking.com), insurance companies (e.g., Allianz, United Health Group, Kaiser, Anthem), and data aggregators (e.g., AWS, Veraset, Placer.ai, Oracle). B2C products will launch in 2025, allowing individuals to purchase detailed noise level reports for a street before moving into a new home. Additionally, B2G efforts will target governments, policymakers, and academic institutions.



## Worth Knowing

This section provides essential information that might be of particular value. Stay informed with the latest updates and

* We plan to launch more passive ways for users to contribute noise-level data, allowing us to expand each user’s daily data inflow.
* We will soon enhance our dataset’s coverage and predictive capabilities using AI.
* User consent and a hash of the reading are brought on-chain, making our data verifiable and creating a premium for our data among buyers. All measurements are verifiable on the chain.
* This dataset creates additional value for the geolocation data market (valued at $20.6 billion, with a 13.4% compound annual growth rate \[CAGR]) and the POI market (valued at $250 million with an 8.9% CAGR). Silencio collects latitude and longitude coordinates with each noise-level stream to accurately geolocate the reading, enabling the collection and storage of hyper-local data. Although this geospatial data is a by-product, it has significant commercial value. Existing data buyers are excited about using Web3 to crowdsource this data, as we do so in compliance with the strictest privacy laws. All data is anonymized during the collection and commercialization process.
