Multimedia Contents Provision Using Bluetooth for Cultural Heritage Applications: the MID-Blue Project

The paper describes the MID-Blue (Multimedia Information Distribution over Bluetooth) system architecture as a dynamic guidance system for museum visitors based on Bluetooth connection. It provides specific contents related to the user position also using streaming video. This feature is still not diffused among Bluetooth technologies and could be more useful than other alternative solutions in museum contexts where it is necessary to delivery short-range information. The architecture overview underlines the components involved for supporting video streaming functionality over Bluetooth describing the first prototype implementation.