🌱 Environment

LärmLAB Noise & Environment Network

LaermLAB has installed 67 noise and environmental sensors (22 in Bad Hersfeld) across eight municipalities since 2024, building a baseline against Deutsche Bahn's simulations for the planned Fulda-Gerstungen high-speed line, with AI classifying sound sources in real time at laermlab.de.

Live 📅 since 2024

🤖 AI-generated summary of the sources below — how this works · 🔎 Last verified 2026-08-02

🌱 Environment Sensors & IoT

📊 Impact

At roughly 90% of the network's measurement points, noise levels exceed WHO-recommended thresholds during day or night, by up to 20 dB at some sites (THM research team, via Hessenschau, May 2025).

Evidence📰 Media

Scale🗺️ Regional

Cost€1.13M (state grant)

📖 Terms in this entry: Adaptive traffic signals · Digital twin · LoRaWAN

Sources

↗ Smarte Region Hessen – Best Practice (reference)Entry in the State of Hesse's best-practice database (German).

↗ Stadt Bad Hersfeld (authority)Official page by the city or public authority behind the project.

↗ Hessenschau (press)News coverage of the project.

This overview was generated with AI from the public sources listed above and checked against them before publication. It has not had a complete human fact-check — treat it as a starting point and follow the sources.

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📎 Cite this project

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “LärmLAB Noise & Environment Network” — Bad Hersfeld, Germany. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/bad-hersfeld-laermlab/ (last verified 2026-08-02). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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