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

Author

Pace, Pasquale ; Aloi, Gianluca ; Palmacci, Antonio

Author_Institution

DEIS - Univ. of Calabria, Rende

fYear

2008

fDate

24-27 Nov. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

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.

Keywords

augmented reality; mobile handsets; multimedia communication; radiocommunication; Bluetooth; GPS; Wi-Fi; augmented reality content; handheld devices; indoor-outdoor location-aware services; mobile users; multimedia; wireless communication architectures; Augmented reality; Bluetooth; Communication system software; Computer architecture; Global Positioning System; Handheld computers; Mobile computing; Protocols; Wireless LAN; Wireless communication; Augmented Reality; Contextual Systems Architecture; Multimedia contents delivery; Positioning; Ubiquitous computing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Days, 2008. WD '08. 1st IFIP

Conference_Location

Dubai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2828-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2829-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WD.2008.4812911

Filename

4812911