This master s research aimed to develop a low-cost technological alternative capable of carrying out acoustic measurements to meet the demands of the academic and industrial sectors. The concern with reducing costs was the motivation for the work in the expectation that the sound level meter developed would also enable essentially social projects, commonly discarded due to the high costs currently associated with reliable measurements and the dependence on electronic components not available on the national market. As a foundation, the proposed measurement instrument operates on an embedded Linux system and is designed to provide a remote display and enable accurate measurements of waveforms captured from a microphone source via a Jack audio server. It uses spectral analysis to allow visualization of the acoustic waveform in the time domain, considering dedicated functionalities essential to provide reliable measurement results, whether of sound pressure levels or different acoustic descriptors. The sonometer was validated based on results from an intercomparison of laboratory and field measurements, taking as a reference reliable results generated by a commercial sound level meter (CESVA SC420) calibrated by a laboratory accredited for acoustic measurements by the Brazilian Calibration Network (RBC/Inmetro).