An IoT-Enabled Information System for Smart Navigation in Museums

Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a new paradigm that connects objects to provide seamless communication and contextual information to anyone, anywhere, at any time (AAA). These Internet-of-Things-enabled automated objects interact with visitors to present a variety of information during museum navigation and exploration. In this article, a smart navigation and information system (SNIS) prototype for museum navigation and exploration is developed, which delivers an interactive and more exciting museum exploration experience based on the visitor’s personal presence. The objects inside a museum share the information that assist and navigate the visitors about the different sections and objects of the museum. The system was deployed inside Chakdara Museum and experimented with 381 users to achieve the results. For results, different users marked the proposed system in terms of parameters such as interesting, reality, ease of use, satisfaction, usefulness, and user friendly. Of these 381 users, 201 marked the system as most interesting, 138 marked most realistic, 121 marked it as easy-in-use, 219 marked it useful, and 210 marked it as user friendly. These statistics prove the efficiency of SNIS and its usefulness in smart cultural heritage, including smart museums, exhibitions and cultural sites.

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The Fellini Museum of Rimini in Italy and the Genetic Algorithms-Based Method to Optimize the Design of an Integrated System Network and Installations

“…The integrated system is aimed at supporting security, safety, and all of the functionalities necessary to the management of the museum [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17]. This section considers the design process in realizing a fully integrated system characterized by flexibility, scalability, and modularity, so that it is possible to adapt it to the typical needs of museums.…”

“…From these points of view, technology and integrated technological systems (ITSs) represent powerful tools [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9], and in particular, the IoT (Internet of Things)/IoE (Internet of Everything) is used to achieve an integral control of the whole museum, as well as to provide advanced functionalities for different purposes [10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17].…”

“…Heritage 2022, 5, FOR PEER REVIEW 7 The system is characterized by a great level of modularity, which permits adding, whenever necessary, any device, installation, subsystem, etc., that need to be integrated in the IoT/IoE system. It is characterized by a general framework that merges all the best practices and technologies used up till now [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17] to reach the desired objectives. The framework of the system is illustrated in Figure 4.…”