Mira Telecom Contributes to the Preservation and Restoration of Patrimony Objects at International Level
Summary
The company is main partner with leader role and co-financer within the project Eureka 5837 ADAS, which targets the design of an automated damage assessment system for cultural heritage leather and parchments.European museums, religious places of worship and State Archives preserve a large number of documents, books and objects partially made by leather and parchment dated from the 4th to the 20th century.As valuable as these objects are, as difficult it is to preserve them in good shape, considering that there is no assessment system at the moment, able to determine accurately the damage level of the cultural heritage leather and parchments.The project will be implemented over 36 months and will end in March 2015.The collagen structure of parchments or leathers is degraded under the influence of environmental factors: temperature, relative humidity, atmospheric pollutants, light, storage conditions.Mira Telecom decided to get involved in the project “Eureka 5837 ADAS” to ensure the necessary support to the institutions facing this problem, by generating an innovative and efficient solution,” said Stelian Ilie, Mira Telecom President.The determination of main parameters which damage parchment and leather objects in Romania and Spain, the design of the automated system for shrinking temperature evaluation and the validation of the new assisted method for the automated damage assessment system are among the most important objectives of the project.Mira Telecom is collaborating with another three local scientific partners in this project: The Leather and Footwear Institute (ICPI)- Branch of Research Leather Footwear Institute, Bucharest; Politechnica University of Biucharest/ Applied Informatics and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (LIA) and the National Museum of Romanian History.