Working in partnership with FarrPoint, CENSIS has helped Ravenspoint Centre Museum on the Isle of Lewis to safeguard the cultural legacy of its historically important exhibits and enhance the visitor experience.
Ravenspoint – home to the renowned Angus Macleod Archive – has expanded previous infrastructure to include a LoRaWAN network which monitors the humidity and temperature levels across the museum and its storage sites, as well as track visitor numbers.
Prior to installation, the museum relied on manual methods to log humidity levels, and to track visitor numbers. The new IoT system automates these processes. Working with Farrpoint – the developer of an earlier humidity monitoring system for Ravenspoint’s artefact storage room – CENSIS expanded the system to include:
The additional sensors were added to the existing dashboard providing a graphic representation of the data that includes humidity and temperature readings, historical readings, and trends. Accessed via a secure login, the system also issues email alerts according to specific thresholds. This allows museum staff to be alerted should an unexpected change in humidity occur or when battery life in the sensors begins to expire.
The initiative formed part of CENSIS’s IoT Evolve programme, funded by The Scottish Government and Highlands and Islands Enterprise to support organisations in the region with the development and application of IoT.
Opened 15 years ago, Ravenspoint Museum and the Angus Macleod Archive provide a unique perspective of Scottish history, chronicling one man’s experience of life in the Gaelic-speaking village of Calbost through documents, videos, and voice recordings.