Predictive preservation of historic buildings through IoT-based system

Abstract

Cultural Heritage conservation is the set of interventions and actions to protect artworks, ensuring their values accessibility to present and future generations. The advent of new technologies introduced many possibilities and strategies to monitor environments, including those with Cultural Value. This paper introduces effective preventive conservation and details the potential contributions of active environmental control and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies. This strategy is applied through the case study of the Farina tobacco factory in Battipaglia (Italy). The monitoring of environmental parameters was implemented through a remote control system, installing digital sensors inside the structure. Data were collected continuously through integrated supervision, monitoring, and shared management platform, based on web-cloud-IoT technology. The application of IoT systems in climate monitoring and control facilitated the prediction of humidity within the structures being conserved.