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The project aims to develop and deploy a
System for providing Location Based
Information Services for the city of
Athens, Greece and Turku, Finland.
The main core of Information content that will
be deployed in the marketable project results
will consist of Tourist information on specific monuments and sights of down town areas, neighboring information and public services hot spots (Tourist Information Kiosks, exhibition centers, theaters, etc.).

Information Services will be provided using
GSM+/2.5 G existing mobile technology.
Using the existing GSM and GPRS core network
of partners Vodafone-Panafon Hellenic Telecommunications Company S.A. & Adaptia Solutions Oy Ltd, the consortium will be able
to address in full extend the current state of
mobile phones usage of both GSM and GPRS
end-users.

The M-GUIDE service will be multilingual with a predefined set of languages English, Greek, Finnish, French and German.
The user additionally will have the option to chose and set the default language of M-GUIDE Service to his/her preference. This will overcome the obstacle in the case that the user's native language does not belong in the Language set. The predefined default language will be English.
Partners of the consortium that will provide the content for the service, guarantee the credentials of the information.

In this way, end user will be provided with:

  • A simple way to navigate through historic monuments and sights of the cities
  • An inexpensive, on-demand information guide
  • accurate information on her current location
  • credentials for the information retrieved

The consortium aims to deploy the service as a test case in two (2) main cities: Athens and Turku while its open architecture will provide the appropriate scalability for more European cities. Athens Municipality and Adaptia will be the Public Sector Information Providers in the project. Adaptia will exploit for this reason their relationship to the Turku Town Council and Turku Touring, and include them in the project for content provision and dissemination purposes.

A simple scenario depicting the project
approach is presented in figure 1:
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Figure 1. Conceptual Representation of M-GUIDE Proposal
  • The end user activates his/her mobile handheld device (mobile phone, palmtop, pda) and enters the GSM-GPRS Wireless network of the cities.
  • Telecom operators retrieve information on his/her nationality and welcomes in the language of origin offering the choice of the user service upon request. The service will be able to start by a simple request from the end user calling a 3-digit reserved number.
  • When the end user stands in front of a tourist sight, he/she will be able to request the M-GUIDE service.
  • The Location Identifier component assess with a certain level of accuracy the user's position and retrieves information for the respective "items" in the specified location.
  • Content is wrapped up and delivered to the end-user through the wireless network with a transformation format acceptable by user's handheld device. In case there are more than one "items" to be presented, the user will have the ability to choose from a comprehensive selection list.

M-GUIDE Cultural Location Based Information Services Developed by Exodus S.A.
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