---
publication_id: "OT-2026-000000184"
title: "Managing sound levels at an information handling system"
published_at: "2026-09-15T19:02:35.075120Z"
canonical_url: "https://opentechnical.org/p/OT-2026-000000184"
categories:
  - "sensors-controls-machine-vision/industrial-control"
keywords:
  - "g05d13/02"
  - "g06f3/16"
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# Managing sound levels at an information handling system

## Abstract

Managing sound levels at an IHS, including determining, for each time duration over a first time period, multiple instantaneous sound levels of the time duration of an environment of the IHS; calculating, for each time duration over first time period, an average sound level of the time duration based on the multiple instantaneous sound levels of the time duration; determining, based on the average sound level of each time duration over the first time period, a lowest average first sound level for first time period; setting the lowest average first sound level as an ambient sound level of the environment of the IHS for the first time period; adjusting, for the first time period, a fan speed of a fan based on the ambient sound level of environment such that a noise level of the fan is less than the ambient sound level of environment for the first time period.