Monitoring the museum’s environment for
preventive conservation of art purposes is one major concern
to all museums. In order to properly conserve the artwork it is
critical to continuously measure some parameters, such as
temperature, relative humidity, light and, also, pollutants,
either in storage or exhibition rooms. The deployment of a
Wireless Sensor Network in a museum can help implementing
these measurements in real-time, continuously, and in a much
easier and cheap way. In this paper, we present the first
testbed deployed in an Contemporary Art Museum, located in
Madeira Island, Portugal, and the preliminary results of these
experiments. On the other hand, we propose a new wireless
sensor node that offers some advantages when compared with
several commercially available solutions. Furthermore, we
present a system that automatically controls the dehumidifying
devices, maintaining the humidity at more constant levels.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
