Monitoring of visitors in museum exhibitions

Pages 155-162
DOI 10.37520/jnmpnhs.2020.008
Keywords heat map, museum exhibition, monitoring, CCTV, Wi-Fi, ZigBee, Bluetooth, UWB, RFID
Type of Article Peer-reviewed
Citation DRAHANSKÝ, Martin, MACEK, Ivo a GOLDMANN, Tomáš. Monitoring of visitors in museum exhibitions. Journal of the National Museum (Prague), Natural History Series. Prague: National Museum, 2020, 189(1), 155-162. DOI: https://doi.org/10.37520/jnmpnhs.2020.008. ISSN 1802-6842 (print), 1802-6850 (electronic). Also available from: https://publikace.nm.cz/en/periodicals/jotnmpnhs/189-1/monitoring-of-visitors-in-museum-exhibitions
Journal of the National Museum (Prague), Natural History Series | 2020/189/1

The article describes historical and existing technologies for monitoring visitors in museum exhibitions. A proposal for a new solution is also included. These technologies mainly include wireless radio technologies (Wi-Fi, ZigBee, Bluetooth, UWB, RFID), while our idea of monitoring is based on the use of heat maps from camera images, i.e. processing of data from multiple camera sources.

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