Authors:
Rita Tse
1
;
Marcus Im
2
;
Su-Kit Tang
1
;
Luís Filipe Menezes
3
;
Alfredo Manuel Pereira Geraldes Dias
4
and
Giovanni Pau
5
Affiliations:
1
School of Applied Sciences, Macao Polytechnic Institute, Macao, China
;
2
Macao Polytechnic Institute, Macao, China
;
3
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
;
4
University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
;
5
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
Keyword(s):
Self-adaptive Sensing, Internet of Things, World Heritage Conservation.
Abstract:
As historic buildings and collections in museums are normally of deteriorated structure or materials, any sudden change of weather or environment, such as oxygen level, temperature, humidity, air quality, etc., may cause damages to them and it may not be recoverable. Internet of Things (IoT) is common in solving problems by collecting environmental data using sensors. The data is live and immediate for visualizing the environment, which is suitable for conserving the buildings and collections. However, there is no one-for-all IoT solution for this conservation problem. In this paper, we propose the design of the sensor device in the IoT platform for conserving historic buildings and collections in museums. The sensor device is self-adaptive, running continuously without any interruption causing by the instability of power and network connection. The platform is currently implemented for the conservation project in the Science museum, University of Coimbra, Portugal. It has been runni
ng over a year and the conservation work is going well.
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