SmartWhere® Heritage
Environmental and asset intelligence for cultural heritage
Connect environmental conditions, heritage assets and operational action in one managed platform — from historic buildings and collection spaces to individual artefacts, collections and loaned objects.
Understand the environment. Know what it is protecting. Act on the evidence.
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Why SmartWhere Heritage exists
Heritage organisations protect buildings, spaces, collections, individual objects and loans — yet the information needed to manage them is often fragmented across different systems.
Environmental data, collection information, incidents and actions can all exist separately — and when objects move, the picture becomes even harder to follow.
SmartWhere Heritage connects environmental conditions, assets, locations and action — in one intelligent environment.
Knowing the condition is only the beginning
Environmental monitoring can tell you that temperature, relative humidity or another condition has changed.
But effective conservation requires more context.
- Where did it happen?
- What was being protected?
- Which assets may have been affected?
- What action was taken?
SmartWhere Heritage connects monitoring data with the places, assets and actions it relates to — creating a clearer picture of environmental risk and response.
SmartWhere connects the condition to the thing being protected.
See the environment. Understand what it is protecting.
SmartWhere Heritage connects the conditions around heritage assets with information about the assets themselves.
Environmental Intelligence
Understand conditions across the physical environment:
- Temperature
- Relative Humidity
- Light / UV
- Moisture / Water
- Air Quality
- Vibration / Noise
- Occupancy
Asset Intelligence
Connect those environments to the things being protected:
- Historic Fabric
- Artefacts
- Collections
- Archives
- Loaned Objects
- Display & Storage Equipment
Each asset can carry its own location, environmental history, risk, inspections, incidents and interventions — and in historic properties, the building fabric itself may be the asset being protected.
The value is in the connection between environment and asset.
An alert should not end with a graph
SmartWhere Heritage connects an environmental event to the place and assets it relates to — helping teams move from detection to investigation, action and documented resolution.
One connected record — from condition to outcome.
Know what is where — even when it moves
SmartWhere Heritage can extend asset intelligence with optional Real-Time Location System capabilities, helping organisations verify physical presence, follow assets in transit and maintain environmental context as they move.
Confirm what is physically present
Detect tagged assets within configured areas such as collection stores, providing an additional source of location evidence alongside existing collections-management systems.
Follow objects in transit
With mobile gateways and environmental sensing, SmartWhere can maintain visibility as objects move through stores, transport cases, vehicles, temporary locations and destinations.
Support evacuation and recovery
During evacuation, salvage or recovery, current location information can help teams understand what remains, what has moved and where relocated assets are now located.
Location and environmental context can move with the asset.
Turn monitoring data into a continuous record of care
Heritage teams need more than live conditions — they need history.
SmartWhere Heritage can connect environmental conditions, incidents, inspections, actions and resolutions to the assets they relate to, creating a continuous record for conservation, assurance and decision-making.
From environmental history to completed action — evidence stays connected to the asset.
One platform. Different starting points.
Not every organisation needs to begin in the same place.
SmartWhere Heritage can start with environmental monitoring, asset intelligence — or bring both together.
Environmental Monitoring
For organisations focused on conditions across buildings, galleries, collection stores and display spaces.
- Conditions
- Trends
- Alerts
- Environmental history
Asset Intelligence
For organisations that need an operational intelligence and risk layer around the assets in their care.
- Location
- Condition
- Inspections
- Incidents
- Interventions
- Evidence
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Environment + Assets
Connected Environmental & Asset Intelligence
Bring environmental conditions and asset intelligence together.
- What happened
- Where it happened
- What may have been affected
- What action was taken
- What evidence remains
This is where environmental monitoring becomes connected heritage intelligence.
Different devices. One operational environment.
Heritage estates rarely start from a blank sheet.
SmartWhere can bring supported devices and measurements from different manufacturers into one consistent environment — helping organisations retain useful existing equipment, choose the right sensor for each requirement and reduce unnecessary hardware lock-in.
The sensor is part of the solution. It does not have to define the platform.
Start with environmental monitoring and asset intelligence, then extend into location, energy, water, occupancy and facilities as requirements develop.
Technology should respect the environment it is protecting
Historic interiors, galleries and collection spaces present very different deployment constraints from conventional commercial buildings.
SmartWhere Heritage uses low-power wireless sensing designed for long battery life, reducing power, cabling and intrusive infrastructure at monitoring locations.
Where site conditions allow, gateways can remain within existing communications rooms while maintaining connectivity with sensors throughout monitored spaces.
Built to work with enterprise IT
Large museums and heritage organisations also operate governed IT environments.
SmartWhere supports customer-approved network architectures, including segmented or isolated IoT infrastructure, controlled connectivity, Single Sign-On, role-based access, APIs and identity integration.
For enterprise deployments, SmartWhere can also support an on-premises operating model, keeping operational data within the customer environment.
Sensors where the conditions matter. Infrastructure where it belongs.
Established technology. Demonstrated at the V&A.
SmartWhere Heritage builds on the established SmartWhere platform, bringing wireless environmental monitoring into the demanding environments of museums and heritage collections.
Working with KP Acoustics Ltd, the technology was deployed at V&A South Kensington, London, UK, during the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Environmental Monitoring System tender trial.
The deployment demonstrated its capabilities in an operational museum environment, including integration within the V&A’s enterprise IT infrastructure.
The successful trial contributed to KP Acoustics Ltd securing a place on the V&A Environmental Monitoring System Framework.
Specialist expertise. Connected technology.
SmartWhere Heritage is designed to be delivered with specialist partners who bring local market knowledge, domain expertise and customer-facing capability.
We work with KP Acoustics Ltd, combining KPA’s specialist environmental monitoring, consultancy and customer-facing expertise with IoT Squad’s SmartWhere platform, IoT engineering, systems integration and technical delivery capabilities. Together, our teams support clients from our respective offices in the UK, Poland and Cyprus.
Regional expertise. Connected technology. One joined-up solution.
SmartWhere® Heritage
Protect what matters with connected environmental and asset intelligence.
Whether you are monitoring a historic building, caring for a collection or managing loans, SmartWhere Heritage can start with your immediate requirement and grow with you.