New wireless communication architectures for interactive fruition of historical and artistic contents

Abstract

In this paper we describe a low cost testbed that integrates various technologies to offer a mixed set of multimedia and augmented reality (AR) contents to mobile users that are visiting a cultural site. Different technologies, such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS, are integrated in a flexible architecture to provide indoor/outdoor location-aware services on commercial handheld devices. A real case of study is presented and detailed indoor results demonstrate that the proposed system can be easily adopted in museums or in other environments where an immersive interactive experience is very desirable.