Dear all,
we kindly invite you to the next FNC session held on Tuesday (June 13). Marcel Großmann (Kommunikationsdienste, Telekommunikationssysteme und Rechnernetze), Steffen Illig (Universitätsbibliothek), and Andreas Eiermann (both institutions) will present a joint effort to protect cultural properties from severe damage using an `Internet of Things' architecture.
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June 13, 2017:
Monitoring of Library Collections with the Help of Raspberry Pis
An ever-increasing amount of devices - not only computers, but also phones, watches, sensors, actuators and various other devices - connected over the Internet pave the road towards the realization of the `Internet of Things' (IoT) idea. With IoT, endangered infrastructures can easily be enriched with low-cost, energy-efficient monitoring solutions, thus alerting is possible before severe damage occurs. We developed a library wide humidity and temperature monitoring framework MonTreAL, which runs on commodity single board computers. In addition, our primary objectives are to enable flexible data collection among a computing cluster by migrating virtualization approaches of data centers to IoT infrastructures. As a side benefit, we profit from the scalability, reliability and maintainability of data center technologies, especially container virtualization that is available for a lot of IoT devices.
We evaluate our prototype of the system MonTreAL at the University Library of Bamberg by collecting temperature and humidity data.
-------------------------------------------------The FNC session will consist of a presentation (approx. 20 min.) and a demonstration (approx. 10 minutes).
Hope to see you there,
Michael