RFID-Based Tourism Information System

The purpose of this dissertation is to record all relevant activities involving research which focuses on developing tourist information system via Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). The RFID system aims to provide an alternative and automate the current method of conveying information to the tourist who came to Malaysia. Currently, the current method to convey information to the tourist is through brochures, maps, the internet, tourist information counter, etc. Personalization is tailoring to a user based on personal detail or characteristic they provide. If the tourist or user is Malaysian, the information display will be in Bahasa Malaysia, and if the tourist is from France, the information will be display in French language. The personalization is based on the language used by the tourists and their nationality. Personalization provides better information as it provides more specific information that is increasingly relevant to a person's interest and increase the reliability of information. It is usually in accordance with individuals' standards, tastes and preferences. The methodology adopted is prototyping-based methodology. In addition, the technology used for the project development is purely RFID using passive RFID tag and passive RFID fixed reader. Based on the author's research, the RFID technology is suitable to be used for this particular system. It is hope that the RFID based Tourist Information System can be used as a tool to convey information, displaying welcome messages, routes or promotions to the Malaysian tourists in the future. This dissertation also includes introduction, project literature review and study, project work and methodology, result and discussion, conclusion and recommendations and last but not least, references and appendices.

Internet of things: Vision, applications and research challenges

The term “Internet-of-Things” is used as an umbrella keyword for covering various aspects related to the extension of the Internet and the Web into the physical realm, by means of the widespread deployment of spatially distributed devices with embedded identification, sensing and/or actuation capabilities. Internet-of-Things envisions a future in which digital and physical entities can be linked, by means of appropriate information and communication technologies, to enable a whole new class of applications and services. In this article, we present a survey of technologies, applications and research challenges for Internet-of-Things

Smart Geographic object: Toward a new understanding of GIS Technology in Ubiquitous Computing

One of the fundamental aspects of ubiquitous computing is the instrumentation of the real world by smart devices. This instrumentation constitutes an opportunity to rethink the interactions between human beings and their environment on the one hand, and between the components of this environment on the other. In this paper we discuss what this understanding of ubiquitous computing can bring to geographic science and particularly to GIS technology. Our main idea is the instrumentation of the geographic environment through the instrumentation of geographic objects composing it. And then investigate how this instrumentation can meet the current limitations of GIS technology, and offers a new stage of rapprochement between the earth and its abstraction. As result, the current research work proposes a new concept we named Smart Geographic Object SGO. The latter is a convergence point between the smart objects and geographic objects, two concepts appertaining respectively to

Heterogeneous context-aware robots providing a personalized building tour regular paper

Existing robot guides offer a tour of a building, such as a museum or science centre, to one or more visitors. Usually the tours are predefined and lack support for dynamic interactions between the different robots. This paper focuses on the distributed collaboration of multiple heterogeneous robots (receptionist, companion) guiding visitors through a building. Semantic techniques support the formal definition of tour topics, the available content on a specific topic, and the robot and person profiles including interests and acquired knowledge. The robot guides select topics depending on their participants' interests and prior knowledge. Whenever one guide moves into the proximity of another, the guides automatically exchange participants, optimizing the amount of interesting topics. Robot collaboration is realized through the development of a software module that allows a robot to transparently include behaviours performed by other robots into its own set of behaviours. The multi-robot visitor guide application is integrated into an extended distributed heterogeneous robot team, using a receptionist robot that was not originally designed to cooperate with the guides. Evaluation of the implemented algorithms presents a 90% content coverage of relevant topics for the participants

A Context Gathering Framework for Context-Aware Mobile Solutions

One of the fundamental design issues in context-aware mobile services development is the necessary support for adequately powerful yet efficient querying of the sensory data. This issue argues for research into the creation of a technology-independent, high-level software application programming interface (API) that provides mechanisms for dealing with the heterogeneity of sensors providing raw context data. In this paper, we review approaches in existing context-aware platforms especially those that consider with sensory data acquisition. The review formed the basis for the design and development of the context gathering framework which consists of sensor data model, messaging and communication protocol and software application programming interface. These components form as one of the enabler to support the development of context aware mobile applications

RFID-Based Tourism Information System

The purpose of this dissertation is to record all relevant activities involving research which focuses on developing tourist information system via Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). The RFID system aims to provide an alternative and automate the current method of conveying information to the tourist who came to Malaysia. Currently, the current method to convey information to the tourist is through brochures, maps, the internet, tourist information counter, etc. Personalization is tailoring to a user based on personal detail or characteristic they provide. If the tourist or user is Malaysian, the information display will be in Bahasa Malaysia, and if the tourist is from France, the information will be display in French language. The personalization is based on the language used by the tourists and their nationality. Personalization provides better information as it provides more specific information that is increasingly relevant to a person's interest and increase the reliability of information. It is usually in accordance with individuals' standards, tastes and preferences. The methodology adopted is prototyping-based methodology. In addition, the technology used for the project development is purely RFID using passive RFID tag and passive RFID fixed reader. Based on the author's research, the RFID technology is suitable to be used for this particular system. It is hope that the RFID based Tourist Information System can be used as a tool to convey information, displaying welcome messages, routes or promotions to the Malaysian tourists in the future. This dissertation also includes introduction, project literature review and study, project work and methodology, result and discussion, conclusion and recommendations and last but not least, references and appendices.

Personalization in cultural heritage: the road travelled and the one ahead

Over the last 20 years, cultural heritage has been a favored domain for personalization research. For years, researchers have experimented with the cutting edge technology of the day; now, with the convergence of internet and wireless technology, and the increasing adoption of the Web as a platform for the publication of information, the visitor is able to exploit cultural heritage material before, during and after the visit, having different goals and requirements in each phase. However, cultural heritage sites have a huge amount of information to present, which must be filtered and personalized in order to enable the individual user to easily access it. Personalization of cultural heritage information requires a system that is able to model the user (e.g., interest, knowledge and other personal characteristics), as well as contextual aspects, select the most appropriate content, and deliver it in the most suitable way. It should be noted that achieving this result is extremely challenging in the case of first-time users, such as tourists who visit a cultural heritage site for the first time (and maybe the only time in their life). In addition, as tourism is a social activity, adapting to the individual is not enough because groups and communities have to be modeled and supported as well, taking into account their mutual interests, previous mutual experience, and requirements. How to model and represent the user(s) and the context of the visit and how to reason with regard to the information that is available are the challenges faced by researchers in personalization of cultural heritage. Notwithstanding the effort invested so far, a definite solution is far from being reached, mainly because new technology and new aspects of personalization are constantly being introduced. This article surveys the research in this area. Starting from the earlier systems, which presented cultural heritage information in kiosks, it summarizes the evolution of personalization techniques in museum web sites, virtual collections and mobile guides, until recent extension of cultural heritage toward the semantic and social web. The paper concludes with current challenges and points out areas where future research is needed

XÂY DỰNG KHUNG ỨNG DỤNG HƯỚNG DẪN NHÓM DU LỊCH VÀ TRIỂN KHAI ỨNG DỤNG TẠI LĂNG MINH MẠNG

Tóm tắt: Tích hợp RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) với mạng cảm biến đang trở thành một xu hướng có thể triển khai rộng rãi vào nhiều lĩnh vực khác nhau, trong đó có hướng dẫn du lịch. Một trong những ứng dụng của sự tích hợp RFID và mạng cảm biến là hỗ trợ hướng dẫn du lịch, một hoạt động không thể thiếu trong ngành công nghiệp du lịch. Đã có một số đề xuất về ứng dụng công nghệ hỗ trợ cho hoạt động hướng dẫn bằng cách sử dụng các thiết bị điện tử hay robot. Tuy nhiên, yếu tố con người luôn đóng một vai trò rất quan trọng bởi tính thân thiện, gần gũi, linh hoạt và hiệu quả trong xử lý tình huống. Trong bài báo này, chúng tôi xây dựng một khung ứng dụng hướng dẫn nhóm du lịch nhằm hỗ trợ và làm thuận tiện hơn hoạt động hướng dẫn du lịch đối với người hướng dẫn và du khách. Bên cạnh đó, khung ứng dụng còn giúp việc quản lý khách tham quan hiệu quả hơn tại một điểm du lịch. Khung ứng dụng đã được triển khai thử nghiệm là tại lăng Minh Mạng, Thừa Thiên Huế.Từ khóa: khung ứng dụng, hướng dẫn nhóm, tích hợp RFID với mạng cảm biế