| 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 streets of the city in different formats and languages, through the latest technology and the innovative 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. In total, 88 tile plaques have already been installed (in the vicinity of the Cathedral, Santo Domingo and Plaza del Romea) and 510 plaques around the perimeter of the Medieval Wall, as well as 62 codes on historical plaques, adding up to a total of 659 smart boards. "This action allows us to open the history and culture of Murcia to everyone.
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 a city that will allow you to better understand our roots "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 Plates In 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. More than 650 plaques cover the route of the Medieval Wall In this first phase that is now ending, the initiative has been extended to all the streets that follow the route of the Medieval Wall, encompassing a total of 176 streets, which have about 681 plates. The second phase 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 afar Specifically, 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 we have had the work of the Municipal Archive of Murcia. 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 system The codes will also help citizens and tourists to move around the city, guiding them through a new system of arrows in augmented reality that will also offer additional information, such as places of interest or proximity shops. It is an innovative technology that has already been successfully tested in the New York, Los Angeles and Barcelona subways, and in different 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 their 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. Para acceder a la información, los usuarios con discapacidad visual deberán descargar la aplicación NaviLens, compatible también con Transportes de Murcia y Tranvía de Murcia.
El resto de usuarios, incluidas las personas que sufran baja visión, deberán descargarse la aplicación NaviLens GO.
Ambas están disponibles para los sistemas iOS y Android. ‘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 Medieval Dado 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.
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Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia