Solutions: Museums and Collectors

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When museums’ galleries or collectors exhibit fine art or any collectable, there is always concern about the environment in which the object will be displayed. For the most part, galleries are well controlled but as with the best of intent there are sometimes faults. Many collectors insist that a IT Temperature Monitor and the EMS software be installed so that the owner can examine the environmental data at will and so that the owner will receive alerts when and if an agreed parameter is exceeded.

Monitoring temperatures in this environment typically involves the following:

  • Monitoring Fine Art
  • Monitoring Rooms or Galleries
  • Monitoring Storage Facilities
  • Monitoring Temperatures in Various Building Locations
  • Ambient Outdoor Temperature Monitoring
  • Monitoring Adjacent Room Temperatures

Purchase Justification:

  1. Security
  2. Controlled liabilities
  3. Preventative measures

Typical installation:

  • Multiple IT Temperature Monitor E4’s, Approx £500, 4 or more probes

    Note: For collections or collectables, there are a variety of stages needing environmental monitoring. Pre-exhibit monitoring is as critical if not more critical than exhibit monitoring.

Installation Time:

Typical installation time is less than two hours, including the placement of probes.

Software selections:

Windows
Web
Linux
IP Sentry
(www.ipsentry.com)
Nagios
(www.nagios.org)
Tempelert
(www.tempelert.com)
Dotcom-Monitor
(www.dotcom-monitor.com)
Big Brother
(www.bb4.com)
Big Brother
(www.bb4.com)


Intellipool Network Monitor
(www.intellipool.com)


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Typical Customers:

Typical customers are curators or collection owners wanting to assure that the item or items being exhibited are closely monitored. Most have a desire that the owner have immediate access to the data via the Internet to assure that there is no transfer of liability for an environmental incident.