Abstract
Preventive conservation represents a working method and combination of techniques which helps in determining and controlling the deterioration process of cultural heritage in order to take the necessary actions before it occurs. It is acknowledged as important, both in terms of preserving and also reducing the cost of future conservation measures. Therefore, long-term monitoring of physical parameters influencing cultural heritage is necessary. In the context of Smart Cities, monitoring of cultural heritage is of interest in order to perform future comparative studies and load information into the cloud that will be useful for the conservation of other heritage sites. In this paper the development of an economical and appropriate acquisition data system combining wired and wireless communication, as well as third party hardware for increased versatility, is presented. The device allows monitoring a complex network of points with high sampling frequency, with wired sensors in a 1-wire bus and a wireless centralized system recording data for monitoring of physical parameters, as well as the future possibility of attaching an alarm system or sending data over the Internet. This has been possible with the development of three board’s designs and more than 5000 algorithm lines. System tests have shown an adequate system operation.
Highlights
Preventive conservation methods are based on the concept that controlling some of the major deterioration causes in the environment it is possible to ensure the sustainability and durability of the art work [1].Depending on the nature of cultural heritage, the deterioration causes are subjected to the influence of different physical parameters
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The mean daily trajectory of data recorded inside the display cabinet and outside of it, as well as data recorded by the commercial data-loggers have been plotted to assess the results obtained by our monitoring system (Figure 12)
Summary
Preventive conservation methods are based on the concept that controlling some of the major deterioration causes in the environment it is possible to ensure the sustainability and durability of the art work [1]. In the case of frescoes, soluble salts and moisture are the very common causes of deterioration; an early detection of dangerous values of these physical parameters (together with other chemical parameters in some cases) is essential to avoid this kind of damage [7] Both long-term monitoring of the environmental parameters as well as further analysis of the recorded data are necessary [8]. The aim of monitoring cultural heritage in a Smart City would be sending all these recorded data to internet so they can be checked and serve as an example for the conservation of other similar sites. This paper deals with the necessity of a low cost data-logger able to collect and record data of physical parameters from extended areas for preventive conservation applications, combining wired and wireless communication protocols. 1-Wire protocol, programmed to control the frequency of data capture, with a failure protection system, meeting as much as possible with the requirements of the market and consumers and with a versatile programming that allows its extension to different application such as alarms, sending data via Internet, etc. for Smart Cities
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