Environmental monitoring system for museum based on wireless sensor networks
HUAN Ruohong, TANG Zhongzhe, WANG Kai, HU kangning, CHEN Qingzhang
(College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310023, China)
Abstract: The environmental factors such as temperature and humidity have important effect on the storage of cultural relic. In order to keep cultural relic in the best condition, the environmental factors should be monitored to see if they were suitable. However, the traditional method for monitoring handled by labor has many disadvantages. To solve this problem, a monitoring system based on wireless sensor networks (WSN) was put forward, which can collect realtime environmental factors such as temperature and humidity in every room of the museum by sensor nodes deployed in. Then, the sensor nodes transmit the data to the sink node. Finally, the data will be transmitted to the processing program on PC via the sink node, which can be made use of to monitor and process the change of environmental factors in the museum. Rescach results show that  the system proposed  can monitor and handle the environmental factors effectively and reliably, which would ensure the better condition for the storage of cultural relic.
Key words: wireless sensor networks (WSN); museum; environmental monitoring