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Project
Acronym: SMooHS 
Name: Smart monitoring of Historic Structures 
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Project status: From: 2008-12-01 To: 2012-01-05 (Completed)
Contract number: 212939 
Action line: Environment (including climate change) 
Type (Programme): FP7 
Funding scheme: FP7 
Project cost: 1.831.150,00 EUR
Project funding: 1.404.993,00 EUR
Project coordinator
Organisation Name: MPA-University of Stuttgart 
Organisation adress: Keplerstrasse 7, Stuttgart 
Organisation country: Germany 
Contact person name: Markus Krueger 
Contact person email: Email 
Croatian partner
Organisation name: Građevinski fakultet 
Organisation address: Fra Andrije Kačića-Miošića 26 
Contact person name: Prof. Vlatka Rajčić
Contact person tel:
+38514639283  Contact person fax: +38514828052 
Contact person e-mail: Email 
Partners
Organisation nameCountry
ACCADEMIA EUROPEA PER LA RICERCA APPLICATA ED IL PERFEZIONAMENTO PROFESSIONALE BOLZANO (ACCADEMIA EUROPEA BOLZANO) Italy 
ALMA MATER STUDIORUM-UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA Italy 
STIFTUNG PREUSSISCHER KULTURBESITZ (RRL) BERLIN Germany 
INSTYTUT KATALIZY I FIZYKOCHEMII POWIERZCHNI, POLSKA AKADEMIA NAUK Poland 
Käferhaus GmbH Austria 
RIWAQ- CENTRE FOR ARCHITECTURAL CONSERVATION Palestinian-administered areas 
Short description of project
Historic structures are often of extraordinary architecture, design or material. The conservation of such structures for next European generations is one of the main future tasks. To conserve historic structures it is more and more required to understand the deterioration processes mainly caused by the environment. In certain cases continuous monitoring systems have been installed to obtain information about the deterioration processes. However, most of these monitoring systems were just weather or air pollution data acquisition systems and use only basic models for data analysis. The real influence of the environment to the structure or the structural material is often unaccounted for. That means that the structural resistance is just calculated from the measurements and not determined by sufficient sensors. Another aspect is the fact that most monitoring systems require cabling, which is neither aesthetically appealing nor in some cases applicable due to the needed fastening techniques.The proposed project aims at the development of competitive tools for practitioners which goes beyond the mere accumulation of data. Smart monitoring systems using wireless sensor networks, new miniature sensor technologies (e.g. MEMS) for minimally invasive installation as well as smart data processing will be developed. It will provide help in the sense of warnings (e.g. increase of damaging factors) and recommendations for action (e.g. ventilation or heating on/off, etc.) using data fusion and interpretation that is implemented within the monitoring system. The development will consist of small smart wireless and robust sensors and networks, with sensors for monitoring of e.g. temperature, humidity, air velocity, strain and crack opening, acoustic emissions, vibration, inclination, chemical attack, ambient and UV light, with built-in deterioration and material models, data pre-processing, and alarm functions to inform responsible persons about changes of the object status. Comparative tests will be conducted to validate the models as well as the monitoring data from several case studies. The results of the project will be summarized in a toolbox and a guideline, which will be disseminated at special trainings organized for restorers, owner of cultural heritage and public authorities.  
Short description of the task performed by Croatian partner
GF as Croatian partner was WP6 "Case studies" leader. The main task of this work package was to work and report on definition of case studies (specific problem definition and guidance to 5 case studies in 4 countries), work and report with MPA Stuttgart and METALmobile on installed monitoring systems on the case studies and report on the results from continuous monitoring & comparative testing. GF worked on Laboratory and on-site testing activities on Case study Palazzio Malvezi in Bologna. GF developed user-friendly modular open source software for data evaluation and interpretation. GF took part as core group partner in Management of the project. GF had tasks in dissemination activities. It took part on several Workshops of the project demonstrating NDT methods for evaluation of mechanical characteristics of ancient timber, it published six articals with partners from project, it took part in preparing leaflet and final catalog of the project  


   

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