JAVEA TO USE NEW TECHNOLOGY TO PROMOTE HISTORICAL BUILDINGS
Monday 26th December 2011

The town hall's Department of Tourism is to use new technology in its historicial buildings to allow users of smartphones to receive directly more information about them. The department is installing BIDI codes - bi-directional bar codes - on the information panels outside several historically-important buildings around the old town that will allow those with the appropriate technology to access the tourism department's website and obtain instant information and reference material concerning each building.

Antonio Maragall, councillor responsible for Tourism, announced that codes are now available on the panels outside the buildings of the Ayuntamiento, the church of San Bartolomé, the indoor market, the chapel of Santa Ana in Carrer d'Avall and the Soler Blasco museum. There will be a gradual expansion of the codes to other buildings and, for the moment, the information is only available in Castellano and Valenciano. The council sees this technology as an important resource for the many thousands of tourists who visit Jávea each year and hope to expand the service at a minimal cost to the taxpayer.

BIDI codes use a free downloadable NeoReader which allows the smartphone's camera to scan a bar code and then carry out instructions encrypted into that code, such as re-directing the phone to a website.

Information Source: Press Release - Ajuntament Xŕbia