Wireless Monitoring of a Museum Environment

Customer Requirement

To monitor the interior of a prestigious museum located in Cambridge, England to ensure that the exhibits are in a controlled and non-damaging environment

Eltek Solution

The system consists of 54 GC-10 (temp and RH) transmitters and 7 x GL-70 (temp, RH, visible light and UV) transmitters making a total of 159 sensor channels - big by any manufacturers standards along with the centrally located data logger receiver. It uses a special software for this type of application, Darca Heritage - this permits zoning of the data collection (e.g. data from the Egyptology section) and analysis.



The system uses two repeaters to cover this difficult site, in terms of radio communications. The site is approximately one square kilometer but in actual surface area is many times greater than this as the site consists of up to 4 levels, some basement - all exacerbated by the fact the building is a substantial Edwardian stone built structure with sympathetic modern construction extensions. Because of this, installation of a conventional wired logging system would have been extremely difficult. Individual loggers could have been used in the different areas, but this would have greatly complicated the collection and aggregation of the data.



Eltek worked in close association with the consultant - Tobit Curties Associates to the project who particularly was keen to make sure the data collected was made as meaningful as possible to the museum - which resulted in the development and supply of the Darca Heritage software.