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Smart Tourism: Intelligent Hardware Applications

Oct. 12, 2020

With the development of smart tourism, the concept is constantly updated, the frame construction is constantly complete, and the means and forms are also constantly enriched. Much excellent intelligent hardware applies to this industry. We will analyze several cases of smart tourism for your reference.

 

Wu Town

 

As a major tourist city, Wu Town faces a large number of tourists but also has some typical problems, such as scenic congestion, low management efficiency, and poor tourism experience. After receiving the concept of smart tourism, Wu Town has made the following changes:

 

1. Installing Smart Hardware

 

In 2003, Wu Town began to embed Network optical cable underground, and in 2006, it realized full coverage of free WiFi. This year, more than 10 5G base stations have been built in Wu Town, ushering in the era of the interconnection of all things. At the same time, Wu Town is also actively building hardware facilities such as "intelligent environmental protection public toilet", which has the functions of playing music, intelligent induction air drying, and directly transforming waste into semi-finished organic fertilizer.

 

2. Innovative Smart Application

 

Wu Town has built an intelligent traffic guidance system, and install parking guidance and parking space quantity real-time electronic screen display on the main roads. Tourists will view all bus positions and routes in real-time through a mobile phone App, and scientifically arrange waiting time. More than 560 "Tianyan" systems are installed in the Wu Town scenic area, which can realize the monitoring probe recognition and instantaneous positioning through the face recognition system, so as to ensure the safety of tourists.

 

3. Intelligent Supervision

 

Docking with the data of communication operators and social media, effectively integrate the travel-related data, and through the data visualization platform, centralized display of data modeling, mining, analysis results, to achieve real-time monitoring and viewing of travel-related data.

 

4. Smart Services Upgrade

 

In addition to scanning the QR, Wu Town also uses the latest "face recognition" function by face recognition terminals. The system collects the face pictures of tourists in advance and uploads them to the database. The camera on the turnstile gate automatically matches the tourists to judge whether they can enter the scenic spot. This process takes only 0.6 seconds.

 

Leshan Giant Buddha

 

Leshan Giant Buddha is located in Leshan, Sichuan Province. It is 71 meters high. It is the largest stone Buddha statue in China. It is also a famous 5A level scenic spot in China. Therefore, it has attracted many tourists every year.

 

In order to better inherit the Buddhist culture, display the wisdom of the ancients, shape the characteristic value of the scenic spot, and offer tourists a better tour experience and enhance the transparency of information, Leshan Giant Buddha has introduced the following dream journey, touch screen system. The touch screen system is intelligent software, which is loaded on the touch screen query all-in-one machine, including scenic spot introduction, ticket purchase, travel route, accommodation, theme activities, atmosphere building, 360-degree panoramic view, guidance mode, scenic facilities, complaints, and suggestions collection, etc., which effectively solves the difficulties such as information delay, traffic congestion, poor service efficiency, difficult guidance, and traveling obstacles.

 

One-click Smart Tour in ChimeLong Paradise

 

Gaode Map and ChimeLong Paradise jointly released the "One-click Smart Tour". The three smart functions were launched online, which directly solve the phenomena of  "children are relaxed, parents suffer" during the travel, and create a theme park for children and parents to enjoy together.

 

1. Pre-decision For Entertainment Items

 

One-click smart travel will recommend entertainment activities according to popularity, such as parent-child rankings and challenge rankings. Considering the height limit of children, smart travel introduces the height screening function, which can screen the children's suitable entertainment items according to their height, so that tourists can quickly understand and select the appropriate entertainment items.

 

2. Online Dynamic Queuing Function

 

ChimeLong Paradise has many entertainment items, wonderful performances, so many items will take a long queue time. In order to save tourists' time, smart travel has launched the online dynamic queuing function. Before entering the park, tourists will know the queuing time of each entertainment project in real-time and arrange the time reasonably. At the same time, 15 minutes before the performance starts, the Gaode Map App will remind tourists to attend in time.

 

3. One-click Navigation Function

 

The scale of ChimeLong Paradise is large, and tourists are easy to get lost. The one-click tour function on the Gaode Map App to mark all the information of the entertainment items, catering, shopping, hotels, services, and toilets, so tourists will find their destinations easily.

 

Niagara Falls

 

Niagara Falls is located at the junction of Ontario, Canada, and New York State. The source of the waterfall is the Niagara River. The main waterfall is located in Canada. It is the best place to watch the waterfall.

 

With the help of high technology, Niagara Falls brings more real experience to visitors.

 

1. Multi-angle viewing

 

Niagara Falls experience center uses VR, AR, and other virtual technologies to realize the multi-angle view of water, land, air, and underground. Tourists can not only view from afar but also experience in person. The vast and majestic natural landscape is most truly displayed to tourists, which improves the tourist experience.

 

2. Enrich products and extend the industrial chain

 

The waterfall experience center has developed products such as romantic tours and waterfall extreme challenges to meet the experience needs of tourists. At the same time, it has also built leisure parks, catering reception, shopping centers, and other facilities to extend the industrial chain of single viewing waterfall, which not only provides tourists a "one-stop" solution but also enhances their own marketing ability.

 

Of course, there are many other application cases of smart tourism, and the combination of tourism and artificial intelligence is also a big breakthrough, such as the official employment of Fu Daren, the AI guide of the Forbidden City. From these cases, we can see that smart tourism is developing in a broader and more comprehensive direction.