MoZis - Mobile Zoo Information System: A case study for the city of Osnabrueck

摘要

This paper describes a new project of the Institute for Geoinformatics and Remote Sensing, funded by the GermanFederal Foundation for the Environment (DBU, Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt www.dbu.de).The goal of this project is to develop a mobile zoo information system for Pocket PCs and Smart phones. Visitors of thezoo will be able to use their own mobile devices or use Pocket PCs, which could be borrowed from the zoo to navigatearound the zoo's facilities. The system will also provide additional multimedia based information such as audio-basedmaterial, animal video clips, and maps of their natural habitat. People could have access to the project at the zoo viawireless local area network or by downloading the necessary files using a home internet connection.Our software environment consists of proprietary and non-proprietary software solutions in order to make it as flexibleas possible. Our first prototype was developed with Visual Studio 2003 and Visual Basic .Net.