Scottish heritage meets modern technology with help from the IoT

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The Ravenspoint Centre Museum on the Isle of Lewis, home to the renowned Angus Macleod Archive, is embracing IoT technology to protect its culturally significant exhibits and enhance the visitor experience.

This volunteer-run museum has partnered with CENSIS, Scotland’s innovation centre for sensing, imaging, and IoT technologies, and the connectivity consultancy FarrPoint to implement a LoRaWAN network. This system monitors humidity, temperature levels, and visitor numbers in exhibit areas, complementing the existing infrastructure in the museum’s storage facility.

Maintaining appropriate humidity levels is crucial for protecting historic items from damage or deterioration. The new system provides real-time data, allowing the museum to track environmental conditions and visitor numbers effectively ...