IoT Based Smart Museum

Abstract

The internet of things technologies can be exploited to provide the museum visitors with many kinds of advanced services. The visitor interests are renovated and the smart environment within a museum provides an interactive experience for the visitor. In this work, we design a wearable museum guide which can automatically provide the audio description of the museum collection the visitor is observing. Along with the image recognition capability, the wearable device also has localization feature. The museum admin is able to continuously track the user within the museum. This is achieved using a Bluetooth Low Energy infrastructure installed within the museum. The localization information can be used to provide more services for the visitors and also used by the museum staff for museum maintenances. All the cultural contents are stored in the cloud and retrieved whenever they are demanded by the user. The item is identified and the corresponding description is fetched from the cloud and automatically played as an audio or video. This system has helped the museum visitors to explore freely and make the museum visit a personalized one.