Environmental monitoring platform based on a heterogeneous wireless sensor network

• Autor(a) principal: Rodríguez Peralta, Laura M.
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Outros Autores: Brito, Lina M. P. L., Santos, João P. B. F., Santos, João F. F., Francisco, Carlos M. M., Sousa, Carlos M. A., Moraes, Priscilla M., Gouveia, Fátima B.
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.13/4494
• topic: Artwork conservation; Environmental monitoring and control of museums; Preventive maintenance; Wireless sensor networks; .; Faculdade de Ciências Exatas e da Engenharia

Abstract – In museums, to conserve the existing artwork is a vital issue. To achieve this purpose, it is fundamental to monitor its environment, either in storage or exhibition rooms. The deployment of a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) can help to implement these measurements continuously, in a real-time basis, and in a much easier and cheaper way than when using traditional measuring equipments and procedures. This is the main objective of the WISE-MUSE project, which uses WSNs for monitoring and automatically controlling museums’ environment and structural health. In this paper, the implementation and the final results of the WISE-MUSE project, which was carried out in two particular museums located in Madeira Island, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Funchal and the Madeira Whale Museum, are described. Among other important contributions, we emphasize the development of new environmental monitoring and controlling devices, an emergency doors’ controlling device, as well as the development of three new tools for monitoring, visualizing and managing WSNs, which bring some considerable advantages when compared with other commercially available solutions.