Overview
Charp offers climate monitoring software and hardware designed for conservation teams to optimize collection preservation. The platform provides alerts, data accessibility, and customized sharing to help museums make informed decisions about climate conditions for their collections and reduce energy consumption and carbon footprint.
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- There’s more than one way to place a logger 😉 Magnets, screws, or placed next to the object...whatever suits the setting! Wishing everyone a lovely weekend.
- This week we are in Ghent for the 31st Biennial Congress of IIC - The International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works. This year’s theme, “Ensembles: Conserving interconnected artworks, artefacts and collections,” gives us a good reason to revisit one of our projects: the Ghent Altarpiece, which is also part of the congress programme of technical visits. Read about the monitoring system we installed in St Bavo’s Cathedral a few years ago: https://lnkd.in/e7RxYRhY #preventive conservation #heritage #museums
- Hello, We invite you to join our webinar this week for an introduction to the latest updates to the Charp platform. Know where to look: We have added new ways to pin, find and sort your data, so you can focus on the priorities you've set. Register here: https://lnkd.in/e5m7qpWP
- Hi there! From September to end of the year, we are offering a limited number of trial systems for 3 months. The trial system consists of 2 CHARP Maxi loggers and a single LoRaWAN gateway, and includes full system preparation and configuration, as well as on-boarding support to get you up and running quickly. A modest trial fee covers system setup and training, hardware leasing, and software licensing during the trial period. This fee will be fully credited towards any subsequent subscription. The trial system gives your team
- In about a month, it's the 31st Biennial Congress of the IIC - The International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works in Ghent. This years topic, Ensembles: Conserving Interconnected Artworks, Artefacts and Collections gives us an interesting framework to think about conservation. From components, through relationships to significance: "A significant proportion of the world’s cultural heritage comprises interconnected works or collections that gain increased value and significance when considered as a
- We hope you are navigating the summer as smoothly as possible. With the second half of the year ahead, we wanted to share a few webinar dates The first session, on September 3, will be a product tour of Charp’s climate monitoring system, including a look at new features. It's a closer look at our loggers and software, and show how environmental data can support everyday collection care. We’re also working on a possible guest webinar later this year, with an expert on energy use in collection environments, so stay tuned...
- Hi there! In a little less than three weeks, we'll be at the Archives & Records Association (UK & Ireland) Conference in Glasgow. As always, we're looking forward to in-person conversations and questions, and we hope you'll drop by if you’re there. In the meantime, if you'd like to get in touch, feel free to send a quick email to info@charp.be. We'll get back to you as soon as we can!
- If you're in Europe, chances are you've been keeping your windows closed during the day and opening them at night to keep your home as cool as possible. Extreme temperatures don't just affect our comfort; they also affect collections and the materials they are made of. Come summer, data consistently shows increasing levels of indoor air temperature and humidity across a wide range of buildings. Even where active climate control is in place, prolonged periods of heat and humidity can increase the risk of damage to sensitive
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