Visitors localization in cultural heritages for experience enhancement

Abstract

Dedicated apps for smartphone or tablet can enrich the experience of visitors in cultural heritage environment. Visitors could automatically receive multimedia information such as audio, hypertext photos and video supported by accurate indoor localization in the visited places. In this paper we propose an effective architecture for a low cost system providing indoor localization information. The system consists of RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tags deployed in the area to support indoor localization, the visitor equipment (e.g. the smartphone) provided by the developed app, a small portable RFID reader and a remote management centre able to retrieve the contextual information. A testbed has been setup to provide the effectiveness of the proposed system. Results show that the system requirements are respected enabling the visitor to enhance his/her experience.