iPhotoCult · Intelligent Advanced Photonics Tools for Remote and/or on-site Monitoring of Cultural Heritage Monuments and Artefacts

iPhotoCult aims to design, develop, demonstrate, and validate innovative and intelligent solutions that will allow for non-invasive and safe ways to inspect, document, diagnose, and monitor Cultural Heritage (CH) so as to ensure efficient adaptation of sustainable management plans. These solutions comprise (a) a unique suite of advanced diagnostic and monitoring tools along with methodologies for their effective and optimum use, combined with (b) an intelligent data processing, visualization and prediction software services platform, for the remote and/or on-site monitoring of CH buildings, monuments and artefacts impacted by a wide variety of environmental and anthropogenic threats. iPhotoCult contributes significantly to the preservation of CH by adding verifiable dimensions to preservation strategies. The iPhotoCult Solutions will enable and empower CH community to better assess CH in a cost-effective, efficient, reliable, user-friendly and safe manner. These solutions will revolutionize the capabilities of end-users to diagnose and continually monitor the condition of materials constituting CH including those used in their restoration. iPhotoCult interdisciplinary approach involving many different stakeholders and CH pilots across Europe will serve as use-cases for demonstration, testing and validation of the iPhotoCult Solutions delivered and applied in the form of demonstrators. The outcomes to a variety of CH pilots will provide crucial insights and enable the optimization of the tools and methodologies to help in the decision-making and serve for replication to Europe’s CH in many in real settings.Ultimately, iPhotoCult main goal is to contribute to the sustainable management of Europe's CH by leveraging advanced photonics technologies and intelligent software to contribute to the decision-making process for its preservation. iPhotoCult aims to develop a comprehensive, cost-effective, and scalable solution that can be deployed across Europe and beyond.