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Connecthings, Inside Contactless, Sagem Wireless to pilot NFC-based tour guide in France

Friday 2 October 2009 00:42 CET | News

French contactless payment and NFC technology provider Inside Contactless has formed a consortium along with NFC, GPS and location based technology company Connecthings and French mobile communication technology manufacturer Sagem Wireless.

Under the terms of the partnership, the three companies are set to develop the Smart Muse Mobile NFC Tour guide and deploy two pilot demonstrations in the old centre of the City of Nice and at the Teen Gallery at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Smart Muse will allow visitors to access location- and time-specific multimedia information on NFC Wave-Me-enabled mobile phones by “waving” the device over NFC tags.

The team has been awarded a grant for this project from France’s Ministry of Economy, Industry and Employment. The two Smart Muse demonstration projects will be the first deployments of the recently announced Wave-Me NFC Service Platform, and the consortium expects to have them ready in early 2010.


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Keywords: Connecthings, Inside Contactless, Sagem Wireless, City of Nice, Teen Gallery, Centre Pompidou
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