The Environmental Monitoring Campaign of the Museum of the Faculty of Archaeology of the Sohag University (Egypt)

This paper describes a complete solution to assess the environmental conditions and the atmosphere aggressiveness in a museum indoor environment. The monitoring system is based on a wireless network composed of small sensors, designed to satisfy the requirements for their employment in the Cultural Heritage field. The sensors are stand-Alone devices able to measure temperature and relative humidity for long times, connected through a wireless link to a small receiver for routing data to a cloud system. Cloud data can be accessed from everywhere in real time through smart-phones and easily downloaded for further analyses. The proposed system also contains a set of reference specimens coated with a Cu nanostructured films deposited by plasma sputtering located close to the sensors to assess the atmosphere aggressiveness. The results of a monitoring campaign lasted for one year in the museum of the Faculty of Archaeology of the Sohag University in Egypt, are discussed.