1. A method comprising: obtaining acoustic reference data associated with an environment, the acoustic reference data describing at least one attribute of a sound source from which sound can propagate into the environment; capturing with an acoustic vector sensor having plural axes, during a first time period, plural vector components within an acoustic field proximate to a device arranged within the environment; processing the captured vector components of a first acoustic vector field by beamforming to generate first acoustic vector data therefrom, the first acoustic vector data describing at least one attribute of an acoustic feature of the environment at the device; comparing the first acoustic vector data with the acoustic reference data; and determining a spatial arrangement of the device based on the comparing.