Ein Leitfaden für Lärmmonitore für Kurzzeitmieten: Die 3 besten Lösungen

Discover the top 3 short-term rental noise monitors, plus learn about essential features and how these devices can benefit your business.
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March 15, 2024
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Ein Leitfaden für Lärmmonitore für Kurzzeitmieten: Die 3 besten Lösungen

Waking up in the middle of the night to a text or missed call from an angry neighbor is a worst-case scenario—unruly guests or unauthorized parties can cause damage to not only your properties but also your relationships and reputation. And, unfortunately, the more properties you manage, the more likely this becomes. 

If you don’t want to have to constantly be checking in on your properties and worrying about guests getting out of hand, have a short-term noise monitor do the work for you. These sensors keep you in the know about what’s happening at each and every one of your properties, no matter how many you manage. 

In this article, we cover: 

  • How a noise monitor can transform your vacation rental business
  • The features you should look for in a noise monitoring solution
  • The top three noise monitors for vacation rentals

How a noise monitor can transform your vacation rental business

Using noise monitors in your properties doesn’t just bring you peace of mind—it can positively impact your business. Here’s how: 

Preventing property damage

Often high noise levels indicate potential unauthorized parties or disruptive behavior. A noise monitor allows you to intervene before the situation escalates and leads to costly property damage. 

Avoiding neighbor complaints 

By proactively managing noise, you can prevent disturbances that result in neighbor complaints, maintaining good neighbor relations and solidifying a positive reputation for your business.

Fostering relationships in the community 

By monitoring and controlling noise levels, you show a commitment to being a responsible neighbor. This fosters good relationships and demonstrates proactivity and accountability.

Complying with local ordinances

Noise monitors help ensure your rental adheres to short-term rental regulations and occupancy rules, safeguarding your business from potential legal troubles and fines.

Countering false noise claims

In instances where neighbors might erroneously claim your guests are being noisy, having concrete noise-level data can help you counter false accusations, protecting your reputation and business.

Instilling confidence in owners

Installing designated devices to monitor noise at your properties shows owners that you actively manage and care for the property, building confidence and fostering stronger partnerships.

Serving as a selling point for potential clients

The fact that you use noise monitoring devices at your properties is a selling point when trying to win over new owners, as they’ll feel assured their property will be safe in your hands.

Minut outdoor sensor
Noise monitoring devices help you keep the peace with neighbors, protect your units, and reassure owners their property is in good hands.

Features your noise monitor should include

The most important noise monitoring features your device should come with are logically tied to the sensor’s ability to detect and manage noise levels. These include: 

  • Real-time noise level monitoring: You should be able to set customized thresholds for quiet hours and get instant alerts and notifications. 
  • Privacy protection: Ensure that the noise monitor you choose doesn’t record guest conversations, only detecting decibel levels.  
  • Automated messages to guests: Make sure your solution reaches out to guests for you when things get out of hand so you don’t have to constantly be monitoring noise levels.
  • Historical log of noise events: Having access to data in the case a guest denies being loud or a neighbor falsely claims guests were causing disturbances protects you in a dispute. 

However, you shouldn’t limit yourself to noise monitoring features when selecting a solution. The best devices on the market come with a variety of other property protection and automation capabilities, including: 

  • Tamper detection
  • Occupancy monitoring
  • Motion detection
  • Cigarette smoke detection
  • Temperature and humidity monitoring
  • Mold risk detection
  • Integrations (for example, with your PMS and smart home technology)
  • Advanced security features
Minut mobile notifications
Whichever solution you choose, make sure it allows you to activate real-time mobile notifications so you’re always in the know.

The 3 best noise monitors for vacation rentals

Our list is concise, but that’s because we’ve picked out the very best noise monitoring solutions on the market for short-term rental property managers. 

1. Minut

Minut dashboard
You can monitor noise and occupancy levels across your whole portfolio on the Minut dashboard.

The Minut device monitors noise levels both inside and outdoors, notifying you if guests get too unruly. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Minut’s features. 

The solution also monitors occupancy to alert you if a party is forming, and it’s capable of detecting cigarette smoke, helping you prevent costly smoke damage and the expensive cleans that go along with it. In addition, Minut monitors temperature and humidity inside your units, even alerting you if there’s a mold risk. But back to the noise monitoring capabilities. 

Minut’s privacy-safe monitor never records guest conversations—it measures decibel levels, alerting you when they exceed your customizable thresholds, which you can adjust depending on time of day and predetermined quiet hours. 

If guests get too loud, you get a notification, plus guests automatically receive a message asking them to keep it down. If you don’t want to have to deal with the issue, you can sign up for our Call Assist or Guard Assist solutions, where trained professionals reach out to your guests for you to handle the situation. 

You can monitor noise levels (and everything else Minut tracks) on a centralized dashboard, where you can also access a log of historical noise events in the case of a guest dispute or false neighbor claim. 

Minut also comes with features that help you protect your property when it’s vacant, including motion and window break detection, as well as alarm recognition. 

Features that set Minut apart

  • Privacy-safe noise and occupancy monitoring
  • Cigarette smoke detection
  • Temperature and humidity monitoring
  • Mold risk analysis
  • Weatherproof noise monitoring for outdoor spaces
  • Window break detection
  • Motion detection alarm
  • Alarm detection
  • Device tamper detection
  • Automated notifications and guest messaging
  • Call Assist and Guard Assist services
  • Web and mobile app
  • Historical logs of noise and smoking events
  • Airbnb and PMS integrations
  • API for custom integrations
  • Scheduled guest messaging
  • Long-lasting battery charges (up to a year)

2. NoiseAware

NoiseAware dashboard
Track noise levels across the entirety of a guest’s stay with NoiseAware. Source

NoiseAware offers 24/7 indoor and outdoor monitoring for vacation rental properties. The solution’s privacy-safe devices never records guest conversations, only measuring decibel levels, and you can set customizable quiet hours. 

The solution provides a dashboard for monitoring noise levels across your properties so you can be in the know about noise events and other disturbances. Additionally, for accounts with 10 or more properties, you can opt into NoiseAware’s AutoResolve feature, which will automatically send a message to noisy guests asking them to quiet down. 

In addition to its noise monitoring features, NoiseAware also comes with CrowdControl, its occupancy detection feature. 

Noiseaware’s top features

  • Privacy-safe noise monitoring
  • Monitoring dashboard with guest messaging and automated notifications
  • Access to historical data about noise events 
  • AutoResolve automated guest messaging
  • CrowdControl occupancy detection
  • Indoor and outdoor sensors (though outdoor sensors can only work if you also have an indoor one)

3. Roomonitor

Roomonitor dashboard
With the Roomonitor dashboard, you can see real-time noise levels across your whole portfolio.
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With Roomonitor, you can track noise levels in real time on the platform’s dashboard, as well as receive automated notifications when a noise event occurs. Like the other two solutions on this list, you can customize noise thresholds and set quiet hours. 

The solution avoids the chance of false alarms, like receiving an alert because of a barking dog, with its intelligent sound pattern system. In the case of a real noise event, you can receive alerts via SMS, phone call, app notifications, or email. 

Roomonitor also comes with occupancy detection and air quality monitoring. Plus, with the solution’s Alarm Assistant feature, Roomonitor’s mediation experts will reach out to guests for you in the case of a noise event. 

Roomonitor’s top features

  • Indoor and outdoor privacy-safe noise monitoring with customizable thresholds
  • Zentrales Dashboard und automatische Benachrichtigungen per SMS, Telefonanruf, Benachrichtigungen oder E-Mail
  • Anwesenheitserkennung und Überwachung der Luftqualität mit Zigarettenraucherkennung
  • Alarmassistent, der Lärmprobleme für Sie behebt
  • Einfache Installation und wartungsfreies Gerät
  • PMS-Integrationen verfügbar

Möchten Sie mehr darüber erfahren, wie diese drei Tools im Vergleich zueinander abschneiden? Schauen Sie sich unseren Vergleich zwischen NoiseAware und Roomonitor und Minut an.

Überwachen Sie den Lärm, behalten Sie Ihre Geräte im Auge und schützen Sie Ihr Unternehmen

Die Auswahl des richtigen Lärmüberwachungsgeräts bedeutet nicht nur weniger Arbeit und weniger Sorgen für Sie — es ist eine Lösung, mit der Sie Ihr Unternehmen schützen und skalieren können. Mit Lärmmessgeräten können Sie eine wachsende Anzahl von Geräten im Auge behalten und gleichzeitig Ihre Proaktivität und Rechenschaftspflicht gegenüber den Immobilienbesitzern vermarkten.

Darüber hinaus überwachen diese Geräte nicht nur den Lärm — Sie können Ihre Lärmüberwachungslösung mit Belegungsüberwachung, Zigarettenraucherkennung und anderen Hausschutz- und Gefahrenerkennungsfunktionen kombinieren, die dafür sorgen, dass Ihre Geräte sicher sind und sich Ihre Gäste wohl fühlen.

Mit Minut verfügen Sie über die umfassendste STR-Lärmüberwachungslösung auf dem Markt, die nicht nur alle oben beschriebenen Funktionen und Vorteile bietet, sondern auch automatisiertes Messaging, mehrere Plattformintegrationen und zusätzliche Dienste wie Call and Guard Assist.

Häufig gestellte Fragen zu Lärmmonitoren für Kurzzeitvermietungen

Was ist ein Lärmüberwachungsgerät?

Ein Lärmüberwachungsgerät ist ein spezielles Instrument, das in Immobilien zur kurzfristigen Vermietung verwendet wird, um den Geräuschpegel zu erkennen und zu messen. Es hilft sicherzustellen, dass die Gäste die Lärmregeln einhalten und eine ruhige Umgebung aufrechterhalten, ohne die Privatsphäre zu beeinträchtigen.

Dürfen Airbnbs Lärmmonitore haben?

Laut Airbnb, Lärmwarngeräte sind erlaubt, „solange sie in der Beschreibung des Inserats deutlich angegeben sind und nicht die Privatsphäre einer anderen Person verletzen“. Das bedeutet, dass sie keine Gespräche aufzeichnen können und du Gästen gegenüber transparent sein musst, bevor sie buchen, was das Vorhandensein eines Lärmmonitors in deiner Einheit angeht.

Was ist der beste Lärmmonitor für Airbnb?

Aufgrund seiner umfassenden Liste von Funktionen, zahlreichen Integrationen und Sicherheitsunterstützung ist Minut der beste Lärmmonitor für Airbnbs. Neben der Geräuschüberwachung verfügt das Gerät auch über Bewegungs- und Raucherkennung, Anwesenheitsüberwachung und Alarmerkennung, um nur einige der Funktionen der Lösung zu nennen.