smArt: Open and Interactive Indoor Cultural Data

In this demo we present smArt, a low-cost framework to quickly set up indoor exhibits featuring a smart navigation system for museums. The framework is web-based and allows the design on a digital map of a sensorized museum environment and the dynamic and assisted definition of the multimedia materials and sensors associated to the artworks. The knowledge-base uses semantic technologies and it is exploited by museum visitors to get directions and to have multimedia insights in a natural way. Indoor localisation and routing is provided taking advantage of active and passive sensors advertisements and user interactions. In this way we overcome the Global Positioning System (GPS) unavailability issue in indoor environments.