School-driven mobiquitous invisible paths management for smart territories (Jmagine application)

Abstract

In this paper, we present the Jmagine APPLICATION for schools and smart territories under development at MBDS innovation laboratory of University of Côte d'Azur (UCA) and deployment in Southern France and abroad (Cambodia, Haïti). Jmagine is an Open Source platform that offers users the ability to follow (from the mobile application) or create (from the web platform) invisible paths in a smart territory. Jmagine provides a web platform to allow teachers to easily build customized invisible paths with creative multidisciplinary content developed by their school children in a very straightforward way. The underlying idea of invisible paths stems from the Song Lines (Bruce Chatwin) of invisible paths of native Australian people on their territories ! Jmagine application implemented this idea with schools. An invisible path is a set of Points of Interest (POI) in a smart city, a smart museum or a smart territory. In a given cultural-rich territory different routes could co-exist making possible to follow one and skip to another one at any time. This innovative application brings together POI and makes it possible to gather enriching and relevant information proposed by creative school children. The concept is to make the smart city and smart territory an open-air museum where, the smartphone acts as a guide and provides multimedia augmented reality. The content of the platform's routes is continuously updated by school children under the guidance and the responsibility of their teachers. Several location-based technologies were used in Jmagine implementations such as image recognition, near-field communication (NFC), LED light beams (Li-Fi) (in Grasse Museum of perfume) or QR codes among others.