WI-BIKE
WSA-mobile Winner in the category m-Tourism & Culture, 2010
m-Tourism & Culture
2010
Producer:
IKON SRL Wi-Bike is an innovative interactive multimedia guide for bike touring. Developed by creatively integrating state-of-the-art mobile GPS technology and multimedia content, Wi-Bike provides travellers with a powerful and practical tool to fully understand and enjoy the space around them.
It combines satellite navigation with a rich multimedia guide, all in the same device at one's fingertips. It not only enables tourists to plan their route and be guided through the most interesting sites, but it also enriches their experience with specific multimedia information.
Thanks to the device's built-in GPS, once approaching a point of interest Wi-Bike automatically starts a multimedia presentation, including audio and video content, bringing highlights to provide more in-depth information about each location. Wi-Bike can work both on-line and off-line and can be tailored to be used not only for bike touring, but also for walking, trekking and other purposes.
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Jury Evaluation:
Wi-Bikeis exceptional as a very intuitive, but simple device that allows tourists on-the-go to get location-based information at tourist points of interest. It is especially attractive in providing real-time access to locations and directions on a map, while bikers navigate on their own in places they have never been before.
Wi-Bikealso provides excellent tailored multimedia content combining text, voice and video. The footprint of the device is small enough to be attached to the bicycle handles or be easily carried around while travelling on foot.
Similar applications with similar capabilities can be downloaded, but they can often not be optimized to the mobile device of choice. In this respect, the Wi-Bike combination of the device and its application excels in being an exemplary solution in providing optimized tourism information.
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