Abstract
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a new paradigm that connects objects to provide seamless communication and contextual information to anyone, anywhere, at any time (AAA). These Internet-of-Things-enabled automated objects interact with visitors to present a variety of information during museum navigation and exploration. In this article, a smart navigation and information system (SNIS) prototype for museum navigation and exploration is developed, which delivers an interactive and more exciting museum exploration experience based on the visitor’s personal presence. The objects inside a museum share the information that assist and navigate the visitors about the different sections and objects of the museum. The system was deployed inside Chakdara Museum and experimented with 381 users to achieve the results. For results, different users marked the proposed system in terms of parameters such as interesting, reality, ease of use, satisfaction, usefulness, and user friendly. Of these 381 users, 201 marked the system as most interesting, 138 marked most realistic, 121 marked it as easy-in-use, 219 marked it useful, and 210 marked it as user friendly. These statistics prove the efficiency of SNIS and its usefulness in smart cultural heritage, including smart museums, exhibitions and cultural sites.
Highlights
Academic Editor: Andrzej StatecznyA museum is a place where cultural heritage (CH) is preserved by collecting and arranging various sorts of historical objects in a systematic order to tell the story of history.Visitors to a museum or a heritage site, on the other hand, often have a limited time to stay there
The following are the key contributions of the proposed smart navigation and information system (SNIS), For museum navigation and exploration, we have developed a Smart Navigation and Information System (SNIS) prototype, which enables an interactive and more exciting museum exploration experience based on a visitor’s personal presence
At the end of the visit, MuApps displays a form on which a visitor can provide feedback on the system
Summary
A museum is a place where cultural heritage (CH) is preserved by collecting and arranging various sorts of historical objects in a systematic order to tell the story of history. Visitors to a museum or a heritage site, on the other hand, often have a limited time to stay there. Discovering items of interest and items of a given culture is important for better understanding CH and efficient use of time. It is difficult for a lay person to understand the layout of culture at a museum, exhibition, or heritage site. It is usually not easy to connect items in a gallery/museum according to some historical background and understand the beauty/history of a culture. The physical objects in museums, such as statues, coins, swords, musical instruments, etc., belong to prehistoric and historic periods [1]
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