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Digitalizing cultural heritage: how TPS connects museums with ThingsBoard

TOURISTIC PLATFORM SYSTEMS SRL (TPS) is an Italian company specializing in the development of integrated and innovative digital systems for cultural heritage. TPS creates cutting-edge platforms and services that focus on enhancing the experience of visitors to museums, exhibitions, and historic sites. By combining cultural value with modern technology, TPS builds advanced tools that connect heritage institutions with their audiences.

The company’s mission is to make cultural sites more accessible, interactive, and sustainable using IoT, big data, and smart analytics. TPS helps administrators and curators gain valuable insights while delivering a richer, more personalized experience for visitors.

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We are very satisfied with the functionality of the IoT platform. The numerous dashboards available and the flexibility of the product allow us to develop our project dedicated to Cultural Heritage. Through the platform, we have managed to put all the sensors in the Museums in communication in order to deliver a powerful data collection and analysis tool to be deliver...read more

Antonio Chianese, CTO at TPS

What problem did they face?

TPS aimed to create a unified IoT platform that could connect and manage all sensors installed across various museums. The goal was to provide cultural site administrators with centralized access to real-time data on environmental conditions and visitor behavior — essential for both conservation and operational efficiency.

Challenges

Integrating heterogeneous sensors across different museum infrastructures
Building a scalable system for centralized monitoring and data collection
Ensuring the flexibility and reliability of the IoT platform
Delivering customized dashboards for multiple user types (administrators, researchers, technical staff)

Key results

Successful deployment of a unified IoT ecosystem for museum environments
Custom dashboards tailored for different stakeholders
Real-time analytics and insights on environmental and operational metrics
Empowered museum administrators with a powerful decision-making tool

How ThingsBoard powers TPS?

Centralized sensor data collection

TPS used ThingsBoard to integrate all museum sensors into one scalable IoT platform. Thanks to support for multiple protocols (MQTT, REST API), compatibility with existing hardware was seamless.

Customizable dashboards

ThingsBoard’s powerful dashboard engine enabled TPS to build user-specific interfaces for museum administrators, technical teams, and researchers — improving data clarity and accessibility.

Real-time analytics and alerts

Using ThingsBoard’s Rule Engine, TPS configured real-time alerts, event triggers, and processing logic. This ensured museum staff could react instantly to changes in environmental conditions like temperature and humidity.

Scalable deployment across multiple sites

With ThingsBoard, TPS scaled their solution from a single museum to an entire network of cultural sites — maintaining performance and visibility across the entire infrastructure.

How ThingsBoard helps smart infrastructure improve operations with IoT?

Centralized monitoring for diverse assets

Whether managing utility systems, building equipment, security devices, or exhibit environments, ThingsBoard consolidates all data into unified dashboards for real-time visibility and management.

How It Works:

Integrate devices and sensors for HVAC, lighting, environmental monitoring, and security.
Display all operational data in a single, customizable dashboard.
Enable real-time alerts, analytics, and status monitoring across assets and locations.

Predictive maintenance & system health

From HVAC systems in galleries to lift mechanisms or pumps in utility tunnels, infrastructure components require timely servicing. ThingsBoard enables data-based maintenance planning to prevent downtime.

How It Works:

Monitor equipment status in real time via sensors.
Detect abnormal behavior (temperature rise, increased vibration) before failures.
Automate alerts and schedule preventive service actions.

Smart energy use & resource efficiency

For both public and private infrastructure, energy and utility costs are significant. ThingsBoard helps track, analyze, and optimize lighting, climate control, and electricity usage across facilities.

How It Works:

Connect smart meters, lighting controllers, HVAC systems.
Analyze energy use by building, time, or function.
Automate energy-saving scenarios based on occupancy or schedule.

Environmental monitoring & indoor comfort

In exhibition spaces, lecture halls, offices, and public areas, maintaining a safe and pleasant indoor climate is essential. ThingsBoard ensures air quality, temperature, and humidity are continuously tracked and optimized.

How It Works:

Collect real-time data on CO₂, PM2.5, humidity, and temperature.
Trigger alerts and automation when values exceed safe levels.
Enable comfort optimization by zone, floor, or time of day.

Safety, access & incident response

Infrastructure often requires controlled access and rapid response to incidents. ThingsBoard allows real-time security monitoring with custom alerts, camera feeds, and automation.

How It Works:

Connect access control systems, cameras, and motion sensors.
Detect unauthorized entry or abnormal activity.
Automate alerts, logs, or on-site reactions.

Automation & control of daily operations

Reduce human error and operational load by automating repetitive or time-sensitive processes—like lighting schedules, ventilation logic, or system reactions to sensor data.

How It Works:

Build logic using a visual rule editor.
Define automated responses to triggers (e.g., open vent if CO₂ > 1000 ppm).
Allow manual override via dashboards when needed.

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Digitalizing cultural heritage: how TPS connects museums with ThingsBoard

Antonio Chianese, CTO at TPS