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GPS Guides Tourists Through Kew Gardens
Nick Barber: Visitors to Kew Gardens in the UK can now be let around by the Kew ranger, the virtual tour guide that employs GPS, maps and videos.
Sunder: —it feed you information, many video content about whatever you’re looking at the garden, so that could be some of the architectural highlights in the glass houses. It could be broken down to some of the actual planting and some of the individual plants as well.
Nick Barber: So for example if you were in or near the water lily house, you could choose this video to learn more.
Sunder: So here in the water lily house, home to the giant water lily. It’s an amazing plant from the Amazon in Brazil. We grow this plant here every Kew, believe it or not this plants was actually growing from a seed the size of a pea, probably bout two months ago. And as you can see now the leaves are well over a meter across.
Nick Barber: Kew Garden is the largest botanical garden in the UK with more than 30,000 different kinds of plants. It has about two million visitors each year. Kew has about 60 GPS guide units that have antennas built into the next strap. The devices don’t just guide tourist but they collect data too.
Sunder: Its also enables us to track where people are around the gardens and we would be able to analyze that data in the future, so we’ll be able to see for example if they like the farm house boutique they would be able to see that people linger there and longer in that particular area. So we can then perhaps improve it to transportation means.
Nick Barber: Sunder said the gardens would like to enable the functions on personal devices of visitors like cell phones. You would also like to see visitors take their own photos on the devices and share them with others, reporting from MIT in Cambridge, I’m Nick Barber, and IDG news service.
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