Customer

The Story of Gardening is a cutting edge immersive experience centre at The Newt in Somerset England. The experience centre focuses on gardens and their impact on culture, from courtyards of the ancient world to the hanging gardens of today’s megacities.

Challenge

To cover the entire exhibition space with 30cm precise indoor positioning capability and to use this positioning data to enable an immersive guest experience with media delivered at the right time and place without the guest having to do anything.

Solution

Locatify installed a network of UWB Anchors throughout the venue and attached UWB tracking tags to the media device lanyards. The Locatify RTLS system calculates the guests positions and feeds this information to the interactive media player via an API.

Testimonial

“The Locatify UWB indoor positioning complements the interactive, immersive, full-sensory experience of the Newt’s ‘Story of Gardening’. Being prompted by the tablet as one enters a different room or walks up to an exhibit gives a true sense of connectedness with the space and the exhibits.”

– Arthur Cole, Head of Programmes for the Visitor Attraction, The Newt

The Process

This project involved consultation with various partners, being experts in their fields, to deliver the unique experience.

Ultra-wideband Indoor Positioning

The project used a UWB indoor positioning system which used REST API’s and Web-sockets to communicate with the various systems involved, to enable the experience.

Locatify Creator CMS Features

The experience did not use any CMS features, although Locatify’s Automatic Museum Guide App provides a similar out-of-the-box product.

Customisation

The client provided branding assets such as floor map graphic.

App Store & Play Store

The app is only available on location.

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