Wireless data logger it is! You know you and/or your team are done with manual data collection. Not only does it take you so much time to go around downloading data from your loggers, but your data is actually a month old (or more) and, by the time you take it,...
As a collections care professional, you’re familiar with the ten agents of deterioration, and you know museum lighting for art is a sensitive issue. Light is not only cumulatively damaging, but its effects are completely irreversible. Fading cannot be restored. You...
So you’re ready to upgrade from your ancient hygrothermograph or your manual spot checkers for temperature and humidity to a modern environmental data logger. But what should you buy? Except for the Image Permanence Institute’s PEM2s and, more recently, Conserv, the...
What data does an environmental monitoring program typically collect? The most often gathered data is for temperature (degrees), relative humidity (%) and light (lux). Temperature and relative humidity data can be gathered easily and inexpensively. Light data includes...
Understanding the environment your collections are housed in is not a new concept. Curators and collectors have historically recognized that things like sun exposure, moisture levels, and heat can cause significant damage to items meant to be preserved for ages. For...
