An IoT Monitoring and Control Platform for Museum Content Conservation

Museum content preservation is a duty towards present and future generations. Museum collections may deteriorate due to bad environmental conditions or improper human interventions. In this paper, we develop an Internet of Things (IoT) based system for museum indoor ambience monitoring and control and artifact safety. In the proposed system, the information about the artifacts' environment and their safety conditions are collected in real time and sent to a gateway. This information is preprocessed and aggregated in the gateway before being relayed to a cloud where it is stored and analyzed. According to the analysis outcomes, proper decisions are made and sent back automatically to the actuators to set the museum ambience accordingly or to fire alarms. Manual actuator remote control is also available to the museum managers through a web-based interface. The proposed system prototype was built and tested to demonstrate that the system fulfills its intended purposes.