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Art Bug is an innovative application devoted to museums and art galleries, public and private exhibition spaces, monuments and places of interest.

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Using beacon technology, Art Bug creates interactive guided visits to temporary exhibitions and collections, and builds guided tours to historical sites and cities of art.

The application accompanies you as you discover our cultural heritage, and can be used directly on your smartphone.

Devised as an open platform, the Art Bug project is continually developing and growing. It changes its structure in adaptation to the exhibition requirements and the geography of the place.

Beacons are wireless devices, which, positioned within physical spaces, transmit radio signals to mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.

Beacons use Bluetooth® Low Energy (BLE) technology, compatible with Bluetooth® 4.0 available on all mobile devices sold in the last 4 years.

Once positioned, the beacons transmit 2.4 GHz Bluetooth® signals, similar to those of a WiFi network, to all the devices within a range of 2/3 cm up to 50 metres away.

When a device compatible with Bluetooth LE enters the beacon’s transmission range, it receives a signal enabling it to calculate the approximate distance from the beacon itself.

The beacons enable the Apps downloaded on smartphones to recognise where you are. An App can pick up the presence of a beacon and react as a consequence, pointing out guided tours to visitors of museums and other places of interest.

By downloading Art Bug, with a single application the user can access virtual tours of all the places where our information and didactic system can be found.

From now on you’ll no longer need to download a single application for every exhibition or event, but just update Art Bug to find out in which exhibitions and places you can use our service. Lastly, Art Bug does not cancel past events but keeps them in an archive that can be consulted at all times, also offline, from your smartphone.

Art Bug shares contents with the main social networks (Facebook and Twitter) to help make the information available to as many people as possible and extend the community of users and the network of places using this system.