Smart Monitoring of Historic Structures

Historic structures constitute important part of our cultural heritage which we in turn have a duty to pass to future generations in the full richness of their authentic architecture and materials. The conservation of these structures presents a fascinating and diverse range of scientific challenges; in particular the need to protect them effectively from the environmental degradation is widely recognised. Diagnostic monitoring so far has been largely limited to acquisition of climate parameters and air pollution levels used as input into functions or models predicting damage. The limitations of the approach in assessing precisely the risk of damage to a concrete historic structure in its specific environment lead inevitably to a search for scientific methods of direct tracing damage: noninvasive, continuous, simple, economic and capable of operating in the real-world conditions.

SMooHS project coordinator

Dr. Markus Krüger
University of Stuttgart

Project partners

No.	Partner name	EU short name	Country
1	MPA Universität Stuttgart	USTUTT (MPA)	Germany
2	AuRA Bärbel Dieruff Karl Fiedler GbR Restorers	AuRA	Germany
3	IWB Universität Stuttgart	USTUTT (IWB)	Germany
4	Accademia Europea Bolzano	EURAC	Italy
5	Alma Mater Studiorum – Universitá di Bologna	UNIBO	Italy
6	Rathgen Research Laboratory - National Museums Berlin	RRL	Germany
7	Polish Academy of Sciences	PASc	Poland
8	Technisches Büro Käferhaus	TBK	Austria
9	TTI GmbH – TGU Smartmote	TTI	Germany
10	Metalmobile S.R.L.	Metalmobile	Italy
11	Artemis srl	Artemis	Italy
12	Consorzio Cetma	CETMA	Italy
13	Riwaq - Centre for Architectural Conservation	RIWAQ	Palestinian-administered areas
14	Faculty of Civil Engineering – University of Zagreb	UNIZAG	Croatia