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Nowadays, thanks to Wireless Acoustic Sensor Networks (WASN) noise in Smart Cities has started to be automatically mapped. To obtain a reliable picture of the RTN, those anomalous noise events (ANE) unrelated to road traffic (sirens, horns, people, etc.) should be removed from the noise map computation by means of an Anomalous Noise Event Detector (ANED). In Hybrid WASNs, with master-slave architecture, ANED should be implemented in both high-capacity (Hi-Cap) and low-capacity (Lo-Cap) sensors, following the same principle to obtain consistent results. This work presents an ANED version to run in real-time on   \u03bc   Controller-based Lo-Cap sensors of a hybrid WASN, discriminating RTN from ANE through their Mel-based spectral energy differences. The experiments, considering 9 h and 8 min of real-life acoustic data from both urban and suburban environments, show the feasibility of the proposal both in terms of computational load and in classification accuracy. Specifically, the ANED Lo-Cap requires around     1 6     of the computational load of the ANED Hi-Cap, while classification accuracies are slightly lower (around 10%). However, preliminary analyses show that these results could be improved in around 4% in the future by means of considering optimal frequency selection.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s18041272","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,4,23]],"date-time":"2018-04-23T04:29:17Z","timestamp":1524457757000},"page":"1272","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":17,"title":["Detection of Anomalous Noise Events on Low-Capacity Acoustic Nodes for Dynamic Road Traffic Noise Mapping within an Hybrid WASN"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"18","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2261-5471","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Rosa Ma","family":"Alsina-Pag\u00e8s","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"GTM\u2014Grup de recerca en Tecnologies M\u00e8dia, La Salle\u2014Universitat Ramon Llull, Quatre Camins, 30, 08022 Barcelona, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1921-2375","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Francesc","family":"Al\u00edas","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"GTM\u2014Grup de recerca en Tecnologies M\u00e8dia, La Salle\u2014Universitat Ramon Llull, Quatre Camins, 30, 08022 Barcelona, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7348-6916","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Joan Claudi","family":"Socor\u00f3","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"GTM\u2014Grup de recerca en Tecnologies M\u00e8dia, La Salle\u2014Universitat Ramon Llull, Quatre Camins, 30, 08022 Barcelona, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7364-733X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ferran","family":"Orga","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"GTM\u2014Grup de recerca en Tecnologies M\u00e8dia, La Salle\u2014Universitat Ramon Llull, Quatre Camins, 30, 08022 Barcelona, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,4,20]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"27","DOI":"10.4103\/1463-1741.39005","article-title":"Transportation noise and cardiovascular risk","volume":"10","author":"Babisch","year":"2008","journal-title":"Noise Health"},{"key":"ref_2","unstructured":"E.U. 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