Case Study: South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology preserves Ötzi the Iceman with Inductive Automation's Ignition

South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology - Customer Case Study

South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano, Italy, needed to preserve Ötzi the Iceman under environmental conditions as close as possible to the glacier where he was found, especially in terms of temperature and humidity. Vendor Inductive Automation provided the Ignition software platform to support supervisory control for this conservation challenge.

Inductive Automation’s Ignition platform was integrated with a PLC-based SCADA architecture to manage refrigeration and maintain the required museum environment. The solution enabled precise monitoring and control across 42,340 tags, 55 screens, 2,500 alarms, and 1,000 historical tags, resulting in the world’s only application dedicated to conserving a 5,300-year-old human body.

South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology