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Football fans can look forward to personalised coverage of this year’s World Cup, thanks to the Servingo portal, being presented to the public at CeBIT.

 

Three million visitors are expected to descend on the football stadia of Berlin and Munich for the tournament in June and July. Servingo promises a single point of access, offering visitors navigation to an event, a location finder and customised information on all the matches they are interested in.

 

The portal is the product of an €8 million research project aimed at developing an IT-assisted ‘infotainment’ and logistics platform, part-sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Economics. The project is coordinated by the computer graphics centre ZGDV. The Fraunhofer Institutes for Computer Graphics IGD and for Material Flow, and Logistics IML are among the contributors to its technological development.

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