A real-time underground environment monitoring system for sustainable tourism of caves
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Novas Castellano, Nuria; Gázquez Parra, José Antonio; MacLennan, J; García Salvador, Rosa María; Fernández Ros, Manuel; [et al.]Date
2017Abstract
In this paper, a real-time monitoring system is presented to be used for environmental parameters measurement in tourist caves that can be employed for getting a sustainable tourism. The system allows the registration of a lot of metadata (temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and direction, CO2, atmospheric pressure, rain, presence and visitor count) and it shows them via the Internet in real time anywhere.The system reports the data registered and stored as metadata in a database online. In the Cave of Soplao in the North of Spain, this system, permits a high level of control and security of the influence of visitors on a day to day and the temporal evolution to medium and long term. These measurements allow developing a sustainable and profitable system where heritage management and tourism exploitation acquire a subordinate commitment to the welfare of the natural asset (Cave-Mine “El Soplao”), the alteration of the fragile microclimate inside the cave can damage or destroy t...
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Cave
environment measures
real time
telecontrol
sustainable tourism