SchoolSense Sound
Always-on classroom acoustic monitoring for every Australian learner — a weekly NCCD evidence report, straight to the inbox of the person responsible for it.
The gap we’re closing
| Category | Examples | What’s missing |
|---|---|---|
| Classroom noise tools | Too Noisy, Yacker Tracker | Evidence; sensory-safe design |
| Industrial sound meters | SoundEar, Pulsar | Classroom UX; multi-room deployment |
| Wellbeing platforms | Life Skills GO, Sentral | Environmental data |
SchoolSense Sound is the connective tissue — objective acoustic data, formatted as inclusion and compliance evidence and delivered to the inbox of the person who needs it.
Optimal conditions vary by activity and by learner. The sensor reports; teachers and inclusion staff judge.
How it works
Point your phone at the QR code on the back of the sensor. The link pairs the sensor to your school automatically. No account to create, no dashboard to learn. About a minute.
Wall or ceiling, wherever a smoke detector would go. USB-C or PoE for fixed install. The sensor starts measuring straight away — background noise, peaks, averages, and reverberation.
The outcome
Every week, a PDF arrives in the inbox your school already uses — heatmap by period, weekly trends, room-level summary. Sent to whoever owns NCCD reporting at your school.
Hard rule
Acoustic processing happens on-device. Only derived numeric metrics — dB(A), timestamps, reverberation — leave the sensor. A hard rule, not a feature flag.
The weekly report
Heatmap by period, weekly trends, and a room-level summary — delivered to your NCCD reporting manager. Drop it into existing NCCD logs, or attach it to a PLP as-is.
Sample · Weekly classroom report
Weekly summary
Avg L_Aeq
58 dB(A)
Typical RT_60
0.62 s
Hours above 60 dB(A)
11.4 of 25
Heatmap · dB(A) by period
Trend vs. previous week
Peaks down 6 dB(A) after mid-week seating change
QED v5.0 metrics
Ambient noise 35–45 dB(A); reverberation 0.4–0.5 s; STI ideally measured at commissioning.
Exactly those metrics. Continuously. In every classroom — not a one-off commissioning visit.
AS/NZS 2107 reference. IEC 61672 Class 2 tolerance. Classroom-grade, not research-grade.
Methodology
What SchoolSense Sound measures, and how it’s calibrated.
Calibrated to AS/NZS 2107 reference and IEC 61672 Class 2 tolerance — a purpose-built classroom instrument optimised for education, not a research-grade Class 1 meter (those cost AUD $5,000–$15,000 and aren’t designed for multi-room deployment).
Planned
The QLD pilot is the first step. Deeper validation work — co-design with educators and students, partnerships with Australian research groups, and formal compliance assessment — is planned as we move beyond the pilot cohort.
The sensor reports metrics. It doesn’t diagnose. It never replaces OT assessment.
If you’re a researcher, school, or compliance organisation who’d like to help shape what comes next — register interest.
Five to ten Queensland schools, one term. Tell us about yours.
Join the QLD pilot