Wireless Remote Monitoring System for Cultural Heritage

• Main Authors: Allan HUYNH, Jingcheng ZHANG, Qin-Zhong YE, Shaofang GONG
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: IFSA Publishing, S.L. 2010-07-01
• Series: Sensors & Transducers
• Subjects: ZigBee; Remote monitoring; Low cost; Low power; Long battery lifetime
• Online Access: http://www.sensorsportal.com/HTML/DIGEST/july_2010/P_638.pdf

Existing systems to collect temperature and relative humidity data at cultural heritage buildings require technical knowledge by people who are working with it, which is very seldom that they do have. The systems available today also require manual downloading of the collected data from the sensor to a computer for central storage and for further analysis. In this paper a wireless remote sensor network based on the ZigBee technology together with a simplified data collection system is presented. The system does not require any knowledge by the building administrator after the network is deployed. The wireless sensor device will automatically join available network when the user wants to expand the network. The collected data will be automatically and periodically synchronized to a remote main server via an Internet connection. The data can be used for centralized monitoring and other purpose. The power consumption of the sensor module is also minimized and the battery lifetime is estimated up to 10 years.