When visitors walk into the Palace Museum, they can see an architectural complex with many characteristics of Chinese culture. But what can't be seen is the science and technology behind it.

The Palace Museum has cooperated with social organizations and sci-tech enterprises to enhance its capacity for cultural exhibition, and communication and tourism services. It also combines traditional restoration techniques with modern science and technology to continuously improve its heritage protection capacity.

Monitoring technology

The Palace Museum boasts China's largest and most complete cultural heritage protection and research team.

To meet the demands of "miniaturization, low power consumption, high precision, multi-parameter, intelligence and real-time stability" of monitoring devices, the research team has developed or integrated seven categories of 14 kinds of special monitoring devices with independent intellectual property rights (IPR).

Based on historical risk data and multi-dimensional characteristics such as building size, density, structure, material, overall space and landscape, and the number and preservation of movable cultural relics, they can study the index system of safety risk assessment of ancient buildings, and compile the guidelines for safety risk judgment and early warning systems, and comprehensive prevention and control.

For instance, researchers can study precise counting technology for high-density dynamic crowds and the ability of fire dynamic risk perception and analysis of early warning methods under the influence of different times, seasons and complex weather.

At present, based on AI, big data and cloud computing, the Palace Museum has established a complete monitoring and response system and an emergency platform for immovable cultural relics.