ALMEMO® Measurement Technology for Building Diagnostics, Monuments and Old Buildings
Measurement technology for the acquisition of physical quantities in building diagnostics, monuments and old buildings
For years, high-quality measurement technology has had a firm place in the climatic monitoring of exhibition rooms and cultural assets in museums as well as in the inventory and damage analysis of listed objects. With the help of ALMEMO® MEASUREMENT TECHNOLOGY from Ahlborn, important physical variables such as room air temperature, room air humidity, surface temperature, material humidity, heat flow, O2 and CO2 content of the air, microclimate at boundary layers, crack and joint movements via displacement transducers, weather data including global radiation, but also visitor numbers and periodic events such as heating cycles or door opening times can be recorded and evaluated over long periods of time.
The measurement signals are often also used to control heating and ventilation systems for climate stabilization in rooms with wall and ceiling paintings or valuable frescoes before and after conservation treatment. The possibility of networking individual devices provides a high degree of flexibility with regard to the distribution of measuring points in different rooms with subsequent central processing or forwarding of the measured values.
The measuring devices can be connected by wire via the ALMEMO® network (RS422), via Ethernet, dLAN or wirelessly via WLAN or Bluetooth. Wireless probe connections are available for inaccessible measurement locations. The measured values can be stored on site but also transmitted directly to a remote PC using the possibilities of modern data communication via GPRS modem or DSL connections.
The WIN CONTROL SOFTWARE has been developed for the acquisition and processing of measured data. It also enables convenient programming and operation of the ALMEMO® measuring instruments. The acquired measured values can be displayed, mathematically processed, stored, printed and exported to other programs for further processing (also online). Alarm states can be derived from the recorded or calculated variables and controls can be carried out. The Windows interface and the context-sensitive online help of the software guarantee a quick familiarization and a safe operation of the program.
