A Proposal for Enhancing Museum Visiting Experience Implementing Active RFID Technology

Tourism which plays a key factor in the economies of many countries can act as a source of secure employment, investment and regional development. Museums, art galleries etc provide personalized services to meet individual needs to attract more tourists and local visitors. Thus demand for guides at education-oriented leisure centres increases with the increasing number of tourists. Difficulties are always present to provide description of the artifacts to the multilingual visitors of any museum. Emerging Radio Frequency Identification Detection (RFID) technologies are being applied successfully in cultural spaces to help users to get the correct information which is better than traditional guides. Thus a cost effective Active RFID based prototype has been propsed that can describe the audio information of the artifact to the visitors in their preferred language through an audio system, via a headphone. This design proposal is aimed at increasing museum visitors, boosting profits, and greatly reducing maintenance costs for museum.