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Such sensors can be deployed to localize unwanted and unexpected sound events in surveillance applications, home assisted living, etc. This research focused on a wireless acoustic sensor network with low-profile low-power linear MEMS microphone arrays, enabling the retrieval of angular information of sound events. The angular information was wirelessly transmitted to a central server, which estimated the location of the sound event. Common angle-of-arrival localization approaches use triangulation, however this article presents a way of using angular probability density functions combined with a matching algorithm to localize sound events. First, two computationally efficient delay-based angle-of-arrival calculation methods were investigated. The matching algorithm is described and compared to a common triangulation approach. The two localization algorithms were experimentally evaluated in a     4.25     m by     9.20     m room, localizing white noise and vocal sounds. 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