London Tate Modern Museum's Wireless, Location-Sensitive Tour Devices

London Tate Modern Museum's Wireless, Location-Sensitive Tour Devices. While multimedia tours have been trialled in the USA, this is the first in the world to use a location-sensitive wireless network. This means that visitors no longer need to spend time searching the multimedia tour to find the relevant information for a room, because the network pinpoints their exact location in the gallery and feeds the correct information to them at the right time. Because this information comes from a central server, rather than being stored in the memory of the hand-held device, practically limitless content can be provided, and can easily be kept up-to-date. A further benefit of connecting the tour to a network is that visitors can request the central server to send further information about the art they have seen to their home email address. [Smart Mobs]

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