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Beacons Added to Guide Museum Visitors
- RFID Journal, Monday, December 8, 2014 12:35 PM
Visitors to the National Slate Museum and the National Roman Legion Museum, both in Wales, walk around exhibits that might be difficult to interpret without some help. Photographs and artifacts are often hard to put into context (such as a Roman device that was a valuable tool at one time, but appears to be merely a small gray stone today). Printed material posted on exhibits and on walls do not do the exhibits justice, the museums' curators say, since there generally is insufficient space for the volume of content, and it is difficult to tailor information for each specific type of visitor—such as a child versus an adult. The solution is an app known as Culture Beacon that works in conjunction with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacons and uses a software platform called Locly.
