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NoiseAware (no product affiliation here) has become popular for AirBnB and similar house-sharing services to detect loud parties remotely. It helps neighbors sleep easier and saves owners the hassle of returning to trashed units.
It dawned on me that this or similar technology ought to be standard in apartment buildings, just like smoke detectors. It could be programmed to track "quiet hours," along with keeping noise levels civil 24/7. It might be able to discern specific types of noise, separating utilitarian ones like vacuum cleaners from obnoxious ones like subwoofers (bass that gets through walls should be banned anyhow).
Would mandatory noise-detection stand a chance to become City, Country, State or Federal law? I think it's a long overdue concept, considering all the problems noisy neighbors cause. Managers are often unable to get to a unit in time to document the problem, but they could do it all from a computer.
Of course, tenants would need a guarantee that it couldn't document their speech, and some other compromises could be included.
Last edited by Vodoven; 05-30-2019 at 06:33 PM..
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You can have cameras in your property in public areas so I dont see why you can’t install a noise monitor. All it needs to monitor is decibel level not record voices
Why is it going too far, poster who calls himself/herself "trailertrash"? (I may have answered my own question there ...)
I hope NEVER to have to live in an apartment again, but it sounds like a great idea to me. And i f I owned an apartment building, seems like it could also be a great SELLING POINT for quiet tenants -- they would know that I took the problem of noisy neighbors seriously.
Now, can/should apartment owners advertise that they have installed them to attract and retain good quiet tenants only? Sure, I see that as an amenity to many. These landlords might even be able to charge more.
You see, they key to successfully getting people to use/ adopt technology that might be perceived as "big brother" is to show them the benefit and have them "opt in". Forcing it on anyone will never work.
You can have cameras in your property in public areas so I dont see why you can’t install a noise monitor. All it needs to monitor is decibel level not record voices
No the OP wants apartment managers to install it in other people's apartments which seems like a violation of privacy to me.
Why is it going too far, poster who calls himself/herself "trailertrash"? (I may have answered my own question there ...)
I hope NEVER to have to live in an apartment again, but it sounds like a great idea to me. And i f I owned an apartment building, seems like it could also be a great SELLING POINT for quiet tenants -- they would know that I took the problem of noisy neighbors seriously.
Thanks for the yes vote. The post seems to have reached its intended trailery target!
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(I may have answered my own question there ...)
