Client Testimonial - Air Force Museum of New Zealand.
‘The Air Force Museum of New Zealand at Wigram, Christchurch, cares for over a million objects that tell the story of the Royal New Zealand Air Force. An important element of looking after our collection is ensuring that it is displayed and stored in appropriate environmental conditions, avoiding temperatures or levels of relative humidity that could pose a threat to individual objects and materials. The Testo environmental monitoring system helps us to do this.
Until recently, we used plug-in temperature and humidity readers to track conditions in our spaces, an option that took up staff time and only provided information about events once they had already happened. Looking to improve our monitoring capabilities, we installed a network of Testo 160TH and Testo Saveris 2 H1 readers across our site, which is made up of many different buildings and well-suited to a wi-fi based system.
The units allow us to monitor conditions in real time via the Saveris 2 interface, and access past data to understand how our spaces perform over the long term. This enables us to make informed decisions about how to display and manage our collection and provides evidence that we can use to specify HVAC requirements. The ability to monitor conditions remotely means we can have oversight from anywhere at any time - a feature that became especially helpful during Covid-19 lockdowns - and cloud-based storage provides reassurance that we won’t lose data due to on-site server failure.
We’ve found the Testo system to be reliable, effective, and easy to use, and it is an important tool in our collection care toolbox.’
Murray McGuigan, Collections Technician, Air Force Museum of New Zealand.