Your Building Management Systems: A Treasure-Trove for Collection Care
摘要
The David Booth Conservation department and Building Operations department at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), in collaboration with the building automation firm TEC Systems, Inc., developed during the museum’s last expansion a web based platform to monitor, evaluate, alert, and report on environmental conditions in gallery and non-gallery spaces, onsite storage, archives and libraries, conservation studios, workshops, and offices. The platform is connected to the Building Management System (BMS) and draws temperature and percent relative humidity (%RH) data from nearly 300 sensors across all art-containing spaces. TECConnector was developed as a web server on NodeJS and taps directly to the Enterprise Buildings Integrator (EBI) server to query data from historical trends and convert them into JSON formatted objects. This tool has considerably facilitated and enriched the dialogue between the conservation and operations teams, providing tools to better understand and act on the museum environment, while also bringing awareness to the needs of and requirements for collection care.