PRELIMINARY
LIST OF APPLICATIONS
Sounds/vibrations/waveforms;
and related sensors
Medicine
and Biofeedback;
skin electrodes, accelerometers, microphones, pressure
transducers
Cochlear implants for the
profoundly deaf (an ideal application!)
Enhancement,
recognition of EKG, EEG, EMG, stethoscope sounds
HRV (Heart Rate
Variability) studies for heart attack prediction
Vascular and (complete)
heart sounds
Lung sounds
Brain noises, detection of brain aneurysms
Organ noises
Gait
wobble
Muscle, head and hand
tremors
Sounds in the normal range of
hearing;
microphones
ASR (Automatic Speech
Recognition, including shortcuts to speech deconvolution)
Audio processing (speech
and music timbre modification, transposing, filtering, etc.)
Goniometry (determination
of origin of a sound based on phase measurements)
Impedance spectroscopy?
(using phase measurements: corrosion, delamination, etc.)
Seismic
noises ( vibrations of the earth);
seismometers (also known as seismographs), accelerometers
Explosions, meteors
Volcanic eruptions:
estimating strength, imminence
Man-made noises:
door-slamming, footsteps
Terrorist, military, industrial activities
Machinery in operation, vehicle movement
Atomic tests, collapsing buildings, collisions
Climate: storms, volcanoes,
lava flows, icebergs
Earthquakes: Rayleigh waves
(like waves on a pond); “S” waves (shear);
“P” waves (compressional,
faster) (1- 35Hz)
Hydroacoustic
noises (noises in the sea);
hydrophones; wave motion sensors; photocells
Acoustic rain gauges
Whales, fish, boats,
submarines etc.
Underwater explosions
Sound equivalent of light
reflected by water
Swimming pool alarm
Infrasound
(noises in the air below 20 Hz; mostly 0.1 to 4Hz);
microbarometers (air pressure), accelerometers,
magnetometers
Collisions, tactical weapons,
nuclear tests
Sonic booms, space launches
and reentries
Traffic noise, chemical
explosions
Gas fires, oil well fires,
forest fires?
Northern Lights
Meteors, volcanoes, avalanches,
tornadoes, earthquakes
Swaying motion of buildings
(<1 Hz)
Automotive vibrations
(5-500Hz)
Aircraft (10-2000 Hz)
Machinery
noises;
microphones, accelerometers, magnetometers
Welding and other processes
RPM and torque
Combustion and
refrigeration efficiency (Carnot cycle)
Abnormal noises
Burnt windings
Misfires
Wear and tear
Loss of lubricant
Imbalance, etc.
Magnetic
Environment;
magnetometer
Magnetic
field of the Earth (and solar storms)
Electrical
motors performance
Soundness of electrical windings and pole pieces
Vehicle proximity
Electrical
power grid
Earthquakes?