SmARTS · Smart technology for analysis and monitoring of Cultural Heritage materials

Smart technology for analysis and monitoring of Cultural Heritage materials

INTRODUCTION Technology used to characterize Cultural Heritage (CH) materials, decay processes and conservation treatments are usually expensive, not originally intended nor calibrated for CH science, and subjected to software (SW) and hardware (HW) copyright that limit end user capability to adapt devices to their specific analytical needs. AIM smARTS focuses on prototyping sustainable technology CH science. The aim is to develop devices based on free and open source SW and HW for monitoring and analyze surfaces in historical and archaeological artefacts and structures. OVERALL OBJECTIVES 1. Prototype low cost and open source devices having architectural and analytical flexibility. 2. Knowledge creation, sharing and transfer IMPACT ON SOCIETY The smARTs project relies on the open science and technology paradigm. This approach implies that knowledge creation, sharing and transfer are implemented by enhancing the interaction with citizen science and makers movements (e.g., by means of free and open databases, DIY and instructables web sites, outreach events at FabLabs and makerspaces) and by activating traditional academic tools. This cooperation measures accelerate knowledge creation, sharing and transfer and comply with the main elements of Open Innovation 2.0 concept of the EU Commission: put users in the spotlight - as these are involved directly on the design and prototyping process; and create a well-functioning ecosystem by allowing strict collaboration of all the stakeholders involved and including end users. CONCLUSIONS OF THE ACTION Several devices for CH science were prototyped and validate. Each device is based on free and open HW and SW and the principles of economic sustainability. The smARTs devices are scientifically reliable and fully comparable to off-the-shelf-devices, and most of the technology produced is already in use or have been commissioned by CH end-users. So far, smARTS project generated technology transfer activities: a cartesian coordinated machine for automatic spectrophotometric and morphologic analyses, that is now used to inspect and characterize surface and colors of Catalan Modernist hydraulic tiles (private collection); indoor and outdoor environmental dataloggers (T, RH and DP) and several devices for remote and real time monitoring of structural changes in architecture (public body); indoor environmental dataloggers for monitoring T, RH, DP, and UV-Vis-IR light irradiance (public museums); a portable, automatic device for RTI analysis (public museum).

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