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| Murcia is the first city in the world to have incorporated NaviLens technology into its street panels, a project framed within the municipal strategy Murcia Smart City | The Murcia City Council, through the Department of Urban Development and Modernization of the Administration led by José Guillén, has begun to install the first Smart Panels in Murcia, a project framed within the Murcia Smart City strategy, which will allow all pedestrians, without distinction, know the history of the city's streets in different formats and languages, through the latest technology and the new NaviLens accessibility system.This information, available in images and videos, links, guidance arrows in augmented reality, audible and spoken content integrated with VoiceOver and TalkBack, etc.

It can be learned in 33 languages ??that are: English, Arabic, Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese , Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese."This action allows us to open the history and culture of Murcia to the whole world.

Any tourist and neighbor who walks through our streets will be able to know in an easy, accessible way, through their mobile phone, our culture and details of our city ??that will allow you to better understand our roots and Murcian pride "has highlighted José Guillén.This is an innovative project, since Murcia is the first city in the world to have incorporated NaviLens technology into its street signs.List of the first streets with Smart PlatesIn addition to Trapería, the streets San Patricio, Glorieta de España, del Arenal, Frenería, Sculptor Nicolás Salzillo, Azucaque, Prieto, Barrionuevo, Marín Baldo, Architect Cerdán Martínez, Painter Manuel Avellaneda, Montijo, Platería, San Cristóbal, Arco de Santo Domingo , Serrano Alcázar and Andrés Baquero, as well as the Cardenal Belluga, Hernández Amores and Santo Domingo squares, are the enclaves that already have the first Smart Plates.681 plates will cover the route of the Medieval WallIn this first phase, the initiative is being extended to all the streets that follow the route of the Medieval Wall, encompassing a total of 176 streets, which will have about 681 plates.

All are expected to be installed by the end of November.The second phase, which will begin on November 25 and will conclude before the end of the year, will encompass the streets surrounding the Wall, between José Loustau and Pasos de Santiago, crossing the Plaza Circular, Ronda Levante and Primo de Rivera, as well as some streets in districts.Finally, the third phase will start next summer, in a gradual process, with which the replacement of all the plates of the municipality -between 30,000 and 35,000- will be undertaken.Codes that can be detected from afarSpecifically, the new plates have been incorporated with the NaviLens codes, with which users, through any mobile device, with the NaviLens and NaviLens GO applications, can learn the history that gives its name to the street and the corresponding neighborhood , as well as obtain more information related to them.

For the elaboration of this content the work of the Municipal Archive of Murcia has been counted on.In this context, Murcia is the first city in the world to incorporate NaviLens codes on its street signs - a new digital signage based on color codes, which allow reading contextualized information about a place in different formats and languages , incorporating historical images of the place or plans of the time.The main innovation of these codes, unlike QR codes, is that they can be detected at a great distance, which allows them to be placed at a great height.

In addition, they do not need to be focused or framed on the mobile and, therefore, they can be used by people with visual disabilities as well as by any neighbor, visitor or tourist.The first city in the world to implement this systemThe codes will also help citizens and tourists to move around the city, guiding them through a new augmented reality arrow system that will also offer additional information, such as places of interest or local businesses.It is an innovative technology that has already been successfully tested in the New York, Los Angeles and Barcelona subways, and in various public services in the city of Murcia, such as buses, trams and museums, but has not yet been implemented.

carried out on street signs, Murcia being the first city in the world to carry out this project.Murcia Smart City This project, promoted by the Department of Urban Development and Modernization of the Administration, led by José Guillén, is framed within the Murcia Smart City municipal strategy, which is developed through the MiMurcia project, the smart city model that puts the latest technological innovations at the service of people, improving the quality of life of Murcia and the sustainability of the environment.Through Murcia Smart City, the information related to accessibility will be enriched, expanding through the incorporation of geolocation of the plates, allowing the reading to guide citizens, providing them with information, for example, of the surrounding streets and their position.

.All these data will be available by having in the Smart City platform the exact position of each plate, its height and its orientation with respect to the north -the platform accesses the information collected in the Territorial Information System of the Murcia City Council, which will be integrated and managed from CEUS (Single Monitoring Center) -.In the successive phases of implementation, Murcia Smart City will allow obtaining more sources of municipal data collected in real time that can be provided to the citizen, as well as directing them to the links of Municipal Web Portals where they can expand the information.Applications to read NaviLens codes.To access the information, visually impaired users should download the NaviLens application, also compatible with Transportes de Murcia and Tranvía de Murcia.

All other users, including people with low vision, will need to download the NaviLens GO app.

Both are available for iOS and Android systems.'Made in Murcia'Cabe recordar que NaviLens nació como un sistema de señalética pionero con el que las personas invidentes podían orientarse mediante un ligero movimiento de la mano en la que sostienen su móvil inteligente, un proyecto murciano que buscaba mejorar la calidad de vida de sus usuarios.Murcia MedievalDado que las primeras placas se están habilitando en el trazado que recorre la antigua Muralla, esta actuación está alineada con la estrategia municipal Murcia Medieval, un proyecto integral de transformación a corto, medio y largo plazo; un Proyecto de Ciudad que recupera la identidad de Murcia y sus raíces, ofreciendo un nuevo modelo de turismo cultural e histórico, dando a conocer a murcianos y visitantes nuestra historia.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia