Cultural heritage archives rely on environmental monitoring devices, such as dataloggers or more complex networked systems, to ensure collection preservation through collecting temperature, humidity, light and/or air quality measures. Existing systems are often costly, inflexible and do not use a modern, internet of things (IoT) approach. This paper aims to determine the suitability of currently popular general-purpose IoT devices, standards and technologies to the environmental monitoring needs of archivists, as well as identify any challenges.,This paper describes an exploratory study detailing the design, construction and usability testing of a do-it-yourself datalogger and data dashboard system, which seeks to manage previously identified trade-offs in cost, required technical skill and maintainability.,The environmental monitoring system presented met archivists’ needs well and was generally noted to be easy-to-use, efficient and an improvement on existing systems. This suggests that an IoT approach can support archivists’ needs in this area.,Potential limitations of this study include lack of archival staff with sufficient technical training to maintain such a system and the rapid pace of IoT evolution yielding unstable and constantly changing technologies.,The system design presented in this work provides a blueprint for cultural heritage organizations desiring a fuller-featured, lower cost environmental monitoring system for archival collections.,This research takes a novel user-centered, open-source, IoT approach to construct an environmental monitoring system that is designed directly from archivists’ requirements and is extensible for future needs.

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档案中的物联网：用于档案馆藏环境监测的新颖工具

文化遗产档案馆依靠环境监控设备（例如数据记录器或更复杂的网络系统）来确保通过收集温度，湿度，光线和/或空气质量措施来保存馆藏。现有系统通常成本高昂，缺乏灵活性，并且不使用现代的物联网（IoT）方法。本文旨在确定当前流行的通用物联网设备，标准和技术是否适合档案工作者的环境监测需求，并确定任何挑战。本文描述了一项探索性研究，详细介绍了该产品的设计，构造和可用性测试一个自己动手的数据记录器和数据仪表板系统，旨在管理先前确定的成本，所需技术技能和可维护性之间的权衡。提出的环境监测系统很好地满足了档案管理员的需求，并且普遍认为它易于使用，高效并且是对现有系统的改进。这表明物联网方法可以满足该领域的档案工作者的需求。该研究的潜在局限性包括缺乏档案工作人员，缺乏足够的技术培训来维护这样的系统，以及物联网发展的迅速步伐，产生了不稳定且不断变化的技术。这项工作中提出的系统设计为文化遗产组织提供了一个蓝图，这些组织希望为档案馆提供功能更全面，成本更低的环境监控系统。这项研究采用了一种新颖的以用户为中心的开放源代码，