Post date: May 6, 2012 11:41:45 PM
Advanced Use of location based service on museums have been glowing. Although there are many technologies detect location of audience such as IR, wifi, GPS, Many platforms which provide information to mobile devices such as iphone or android devices are found in Recent Museum and Web conference. Here are some examples.
Most exiting one is recently launched at MONA (Museum of Old and New Art) by art processors. They realize the museum with no description or explanation.
Each audience carries ipod. Of course, in the open-door environment, use can use GPS and there is a service like history pin.
In Japan, ISID provide unique location based service by mini-wifi station operated by light energy source.
Without using any proximity sensing mechanism, there are many platform which replaces current audio guide service by mobile devices such as NOUS Conductor or guideOneMobile. Some of them uses QR code.
TourML is an open source description mark up language and their processing platform[wiki].