The SnATCH Project is a joint research project of "Particular Relevance" in the area "Technologies applied to Cultural Heritage" supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Directorate General for Cultural and Economic Promotion and Innovation, within the XI Executive Programme of Cooperation in the field of Science and Technology between Italy and Japan for the years 2017-2019.

SnATCH takes advantage of the international cooperation between the ELEDIA@UniTN and the ELEDIA@UniNAGA research laboratories, hosted at the University of Trento (Trento, Italy) and at the University of Nagasaki (Nagasaki, Japan), respectively. The labs are part of the ELEDIA Research Network, which addresses research activities in the framework of Advanced Engineering and Science.

The aim of the project SnATCH is to leverage the wireless technologies to improve the quality of structural health monitoring (SHM) in the field of cultural heritage. Toward this end, multiple parameters like vibration and inclination measured by low-cost distributed wireless sensors will be processed in real-time by smart inversion algorithms for the detection of anomalies in the structural integrity of ancient buildings, where often the museums’ artworks are hosted. The investigated methodologies for the data analysis will include the combination of customized learning-by-examples (LBE) strategies in order to extract the useful information from the noisy data streams acquired by the low-cost sensors, and promptly alert the users in case of warnings. The proposed solution is of interest for the museum managers who need a non-invasive and continuous monitoring of multiple parameters of the historical buildings.

Historical Data of SnATCH Project