The Rybinsk Museum-Reserve has introduced a system of round-the-clock monitoring of the climate regime

2022: Installation of 24-hour climate monitoring systems

On September 9, 2022, MTS PJSC announced the introduction in the Rybinsk Museum-Reserve of systems for round-the-clock monitoring of the climate regime based on its own IoT solution "Celsius." Smart sensors allow you to track changes in temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure in the premises of exhibition halls and thus help to preserve six thousand exhibits of the museum collection.

MTS specialists have installed about thirty intelligent digital sensors based on the NB-IoT Internet of Things network in the Rybinsk Museum-Reserve. Data on the main indoor climatic indicators are accumulated and stored in the MTS cloud. With the help of an online application installed on the phone, museum staff can track not only the current situation, but also see how the temperature, humidity and pressure in the premises changed over a period, as well as receive an emergency message if there were sharp deviations from the norm. The intelligent system "Celsius" allows you to control the parameters around the clock and notifies the responsible museum employees about the current situation using notifications.

MTS smart climate sensors are already working in the exposition halls of the museum. In the near future, several more devices will be installed in the repository of rare books and manuscripts of the late XVII - early XX centuries.

We create and implement digital technologies so that they solve important problems, simplify our lives, help develop and preserve cultural values ​ ​ - both material and spiritual. Our solutions based on, Big Data digital guides, various technologies in specially protected natural areas are what we have already done to develop tourist industries and preserve regional identity. Our intellectual systems serve museums, book funds for the preservation of cultural heritage, - commented Andrei Plavich, head of the Center for the Development of Networks and Solutions Based on MTS Internet of Things Devices.

One of the main reasons for the aging of museum funds is the unstable temperature and humidity: they lead to mold or drying and delamination of materials. We always carefully monitor the condition of our premises, and previously used psychrometers for this purpose, from which it was required to manually take indicators twice a day and enter them into the magazine. In early summer, we tried to use MTS sensors in test mode, installing them in the art gallery and open furniture storage. As a result, it turned out that Celsius gives much more accurate data and is much more convenient to use: now you can see the data in the mobile application at any time of the day, and even at night. It is also important that we can track and analyze indicators in dynamics, compare with what happened yesterday or a week, a month ago: the system independently generates graphs, and we see them in a convenient format through a smartphone, - commented Natalya Smirnova, chief curator of the Rybinsk Museum-Reserve.