ABSTRACT

ABSTRACT: Built heritage decay, a highly complex issue, involves a host of factors. The key agents of decay can be identified and related to both spatial and time-wise changes and trends in variables by monitoring microclimatic parameters with wireless sensor networks. Such a network was installed in St. John the Baptist Church at Talamanca de Jarama, Madrid, a sixteenth-and seventeenth-century structure, to determine the effects of outdoor agents and indoor factors, namely the presence of people and heating, on the inside walls of the church.