Museum & Heritage Case study
“A practical solution to a nebulous problem”, RAF Museum
Ahead of the RAF’s 100th birthday, the museum’s Collections Care team worked with specialist distributor D-Tech to design monitoring into the new Centenary galleries, a system built to run itself.
62
Sensors (46 London + 16 Cosford)
500+
Artefacts on display
7+ yrs
Eltek in service
2018
RAF Centenary project
Preserving a century of history
The RAF’s Centenary, marked on 1 April 2018 and supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, brought new galleries and over 500 previously unseen artefacts, from logbooks and uniforms to delicate textiles such as a heavily conserved flying suit, now monitored discreetly inside its showcase with a GD13E transmitter and RHT10E probe.
Designed in from day one
Danny Gibbs at D-Tech ran a radio survey and worked with the museum and showcase suppliers so that sensor, repeater and logger positions were incorporated into the plans for the new exhibits, meaning installation day ran smoothly across both the London and Cosford sites.
The result is a system set up for minimum user involvement: automated weekly reports go to recipients at both sites, threshold temperature and humidity alerts email automatically, and the system keeps its data through a power outage.
“A practical solution to a nebulous problem.”
The platform
The Darca solutions behind it
One connected platform, Collect, Connect and Command, configured for this application.
