How the creative use of DepthLink audio guide is attracting visitors？
The creative ways to engage with audience and maximize their experience – a new wave of innovative technologies making their way into museums.
Technological innovations for audio guide system
Reliability achieved sub-meter position accuracy (indoor and outdoor)：Precise positioning technology is applied to all DepthLink audio guides. It brings a new dimension of location awareness to museums/exhibitions with precise and robust positioning. Most audio guides require 5 meters positioning between exhibits to trigger the automatic audio without overlap and latency. With sub-meter accuracy, DepthLink audio guides automatically play contents for exhibits at a distance lesser than 1 meter (three feet) at the highest accuracy level. Having an accurate visitor position and precisely locating visitors enables more automatic audio guides to operate in the same area.It breaks technology barriers with key innovations for precise positioning and benefits the travel & tourism industry.
All about one audio guide that makes your visit easier
Multi-function into a single audio guide device: It is considered the most flexible and unique audio guide, integrated with group tour mode and self-guided mode. One-time investment to cover different tour demands, whether you are in a group-guided tour or a self-exploration individual. It enriches the travel experience and gives maximum flexibility to the visitors at the cost of one audio guide.
Audio Guide Devices
Smart Audio Guide – Mono
This ultralight monaural earphone is a wearable automatic audio guide designed especially for self-guided tours. This ergonomically designed on-ear mono earphone offers proper fitting, making it comfortable to wear for the whole day without direct contact with the ears.
Equipped with high-precision positioning technology, it triggers the audio guide automatically in a predefined zone with no extra hardware.
*Pro version: Real-time group devices management, controlled and managed by tour leader.
Multi-functional Audio Guide – Flexi
Automatic audio guide with sub-meter position accuracy and multi-function. Two operating modes have been adapted for both indoor and outdoor tours:
- Automatic Mode: Audio narrations automatically play when visitors reach pre-defined locations.
- Live Mode: This mode is for the group-guided tours, offering a high-quality live stream to the group. The transmission capability is up to 100 meters, suitable for large groups.
Tour leaders can remotely control all devices with a controller, switch between different modes, distribute devices into various groups, etc.
Compact Portable Audio Guide – Compact
Ultra slim and light automatic audio guide with a numeric keypad and high-definition tourist site map. It is lightweight and easy to use, suitable for indoor and outdoor spaces with two operating modes:
- Press the key on the numeric keypad to listen to the relevant recording
- Automatically triggers the recording
- High accuracy indoor positioning: sub-meter position accuracy.
*Pro version: Sub-meter position accuracy Outdoor GPS.
Self-Service Kiosk
It offers an easy-to-use, automated, efficient and contactless interface that is feasible for both visitors and the museum.
Audio Guide Comparison Chart
| Features | Smart Audio Guide-Mono | Multi-functional Audio Guide-Flexi | Compact Portable Audio Guide-compact |
| Audio Guide Techniques | Automatic triggering | Automatic triggering | Automatic and manual triggering |
| One-to-many radio-guide | N/A |  | N/A |
| Positioning Technology | Sub-meter high precision positioning technology | Sub-meter high precision positioning technology | *Sub-meter precision positioning technology based on GPS for outdoors *Sub-meter precision positioning technology based on Beacons for indoors |
| Outdoor or Indoor | Indoor + Outdoor Museums, Gallery, Heritage，Tourism Sites, Exhibitions, Corporate, Factory, School, other establishments. | Indoor + Outdoor Museums, Gallery, Heritage，Tourism Sites, Exhibitions, Corporate, Factory, School, other establishments. | Indoor + Outdoor Museums, Gallery, Heritage，Tourism Sites, Exhibitions, Corporate, Factory, School, other establishments. |
| Customers | Self-guided tours *Pro version: supports wireless group device management | Self-guided tours + Group-guided tour | Self-guided tours + Group-guided tour |
| Cost of Audio Guide | $ | $$ | $$ |
| Accessories | N/A | Mono earphone | Mono earphone |
| Beacon Battery Life | 5 years Durable in extreme temperature environment from -30℃ to +60℃ | 5 years Durable in extreme temperature environment from -30℃ to +60℃ | 5 years Durable in extreme temperature environment from -30℃ to +60℃ |
| Live Stream to Tours | N/A | | N/A |
| Push General Information to Live Tours | *Pro version only | | |
| Group Device Management | *Pro version only | | |
| Custom Maps | N/A | N/A | |
| Memory Capacity | Up to 32G, gives up to 10 hours of high-quality audio, including narration,music and effects | Up to 32G, gives up to 10 hours of high-quality audio, including narration,music and effects | Up to 32G, gives up to 10 hours of high-quality audio, including narration, music and effects |