Volume 6 - Issue 4
Development of a Zoo Walk Navigation System using the Positional Measurement Technology and the Wireless Communication Technology
- Tomoyuki Ishida
Ibaraki University, Hitachi, Ibaraki 3168511 Japan
tomoyuki.ishida.49@vc.ibaraki.ac.jp
- Yuki Shinotsuka
Ibaraki University, Hitachi, Ibaraki 3168511 Japan
12t4036h@vc.ibaraki.ac.jp
- Misaki Iyobe
Ibaraki University, Hitachi, Ibaraki 3168511 Japan
16nm705a@vc.ibaraki.ac.jp
- Noriki Uchida
Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 8110295 Japan
n-uchida@fit.ac.jp
- Kaoru Sugita
Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 8110295 Japan
sugita@fit.ac.jp
- Yoshitaka Shibata
Iwate Prefectural University, Takizawa, Iwate 0200693 Japan
shibata@iwate-pu.ac.jp
Keywords: Zoological Garden, Position Information Measuring System, Wireless Signal Information Notification Technology, Walk Navigation System, Augmented Reality
Abstract
In this article, we propose and evaluate a Zoo Walk Navigation System consistings of the Animal
Contents Registering and Editing Web Management System and the Animal Contents Browsing and
Acquiring Smartphone Application. The Animal Contents Registering and Editing Web Management
System for zoo staff enables to register/edit various animal contents. Thereby, this web management
system provides real-time and flesh zoo information to the Animal Contents Browsing and
Acquiring Smartphone Application. On the other hand, the Animal Contents Browsing and Acquiring
Smartphone Application for zoo visitors enables to browse various animal contents which zoo
staff registered through the Animal Contents Registering and EditingWeb Management System. The
Animal Contents Browsing and Acquiring Smartphone Application has the animal guide browsing
function, the animal quiz function, the beacon notification browsing function, the zoo map navigating
function, and the AR camera function. Zoo visitors can enjoy a zoo park using this smartphone
application. This system is the new type navigation system which zoo staff can renew contents to
avoid contents obsolescence. And, this system always provides new information to zoo visitors in
real time by the beacon notification function.