Options of automated surveys for maintenance monitoring services of heritage buildings

Abstract

Maintenance monitoring is a key factor in the economic preservation of heritage buildings. Maintenance monitoring services are supporting the responsible staff in their preservation tasks and keeping the heritage buildings and sites continuously in a proper condition. Regular monitoring is an important, but time-consuming activity which needs a relevant amount of human workhour to be conducted properly. Automated survey methods are developed worldwide, to help the work of various professional research staff to investigate the state of different structures of the heritage buildings, however, these automated surveys are usually executed individually, not as integrated parts of the maintenance management systems. In this paper, the options of automation methods are analyzed regarding the various regular tasks of the monitoring staff, and suggestions are made to reduce human activities and to support the monitoring staff with fixed IoT and/or mobile (robotic) survey units at the maintenance monitoring service activities.