Cordoba, Also With Wi-Fi

Traveling with a third-generation mobile or PDA with an agenda that will bring some sense a lump. The City Council, through the delegations of Economic Development and Management, is launching a project that will develop specific software applications to support the tourism sector and that they provide value-added measures towards the visitor through WiMax technology, that is like the wi-fi but the big houses, the delegate said Job, Valentin Priego (PSOE).

The new network with internet coverage will be presented to the funding of anti-crisis funds, will not allow domestic access since, said Priego, the rules of the Commission Nacional del Mercado de las Telecomunicaciones are very strict and not allow governments compete with market participants, such as Movistar or Vodafone. Therefore, the wi-fi cloud, a name that has received the draft will be encrypted and will be restricted only to public programs.

The first decision that has been adopted by municipal officials is that the coverage of the system will affect the entire Old Town and neighborhoods that make up the Ajerquía. Are already working on applications. One is a project of Imdeec, which will guide applications downloaded from the major sights of Cordoba to a calendar or a PDA mobile third-generation guided tours of major monuments. Thus, through a program that is downloaded from the Tourism Consortium, it suggests that a visitor may enter the church of St. Augustine and audio-visual information available is seeing how the main elements of artistic and historical interest.

A second application, said Valentin Priego, is a very similar philosophy to that presented by businessman Alfredo Romeo primarily conducts research on population flows by sampling of people who wear the bluetooth system on. "We have taken note," said Priego. The Imdeec is planning an application for understanding population flows in the Old Quarter by tourists who want to be followed-are intended to make gifts to anyone who participates, so that it can provide the entertainment activities take aa in the historic routes that are rarely visited. Priego graphically explains: "If we know that it is usual to have a certain concentration of people Sunday at a certain hour, we can develop activities with tourist information in the same place that explain to visitors what other sights can be visited. The network costs two million and allow for administrative applications, cost savings and revenue through renting to operators providing Internet service.