{"id":163452,"date":"2018-11-13T10:46:50","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T18:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/?post_type=arcwatch&p=163452"},"modified":"2021-10-04T09:02:38","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T16:02:38","slug":"mapping-indoor-building-space-is-a-smart-business-move","status":"publish","type":"arcwatch","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/arcwatch\/mapping-indoor-building-space-is-a-smart-business-move","title":{"rendered":"Mapping Indoor Building Space is a Smart Business Move"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":651,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","castos_file_data":"","podmotor_file_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[282912,91],"tags":[157432,238571,241,1811,1281],"arcwatch_issues":[170372],"class_list":["post-163452","arcwatch","type-arcwatch","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facilities","category-mapping","tag-arcgis","tag-facility-mapping","tag-gis","tag-story-maps","tag-visualization","arcwatch_issues-november-2015","arcwatch_sections-the-headlines"],"acf":{"short_description":"Mapping your organization\u2019s building interiors is a smart business move, improving everything from sales to staff productivity.","pdf":{"host_remotely":false,"file":"","file_url":""},"flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"Type. Status. Condition.<\/em>\r\n\r\nGIS users often use these three words when they approach Esri and ask about how they can manage assets located within an indoor space. The conversation typically starts like this: \"Please help us improve our ability to find a space or an asset with a map and tell me the\u00a0type, status, and condition...<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and by the way, can this information be updated in real time?\"\r\n\r\nThey may not realize that ArcGIS is a great mapping platform<\/a> for real estate and workplace services (REWS) teams that need indoor map information in real-time or near real-time.\r\n\r\nThe next comment from GIS users is usually along these lines: \"Do you know how hard it is for us to quickly answer this simple question and see the results on a campus, building, or workplace map?\"\r\n\r\nThis conversation holds true for new clients as well as those that have used\u00a0GIS<\/a>\u00a0for many years. Often, if the customer is already using GIS technology to manage location information about their\u00a0outdoor<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0property, infrastructure, and transportation assets, they will ask, \"Why not store our\u00a0indoor<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0space and asset location data in a GIS as well? Why do buildings look like black holes in our geographic database?\"\r\n\r\nThere are a number of responses to this question, but the answer will circle back to the business requirements and current state of each user's system for managing maps and location-based information.\r\n\r\nWhy bring buildings, indoor spaces, and even your staff, into GIS? Because it improves operational efficiency<\/a>, mitigates risk, and can make available spaces more profitable. But there are two more good reasons: improving staff productivity and performance.\r\n\r\nVisitors and customers can find meeting rooms and navigate through buildings more easily using a mapping app on a smart device. Maps also can be used to manage workspace. Employees can be placed next to the people they interact with the most to make collaboration more effective. They, too, can use navigable maps on their devices to find meeting rooms, other employee's offices, and resources more easily. This can be done using a common mapping hub or portal.\r\n\r\nWhen managing space today, it's all about the occupant experience\u2014meaning we need to minimize distractions and reduce impacts on mental bandwidth\u2014for visitors, customers, or employees in buildings. For the best possible experience, everyone can plan their visit before they even enter the building."},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":139732,"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"Enter the era of\u00a0ArcGIS<\/a>\u00a0as a mapping platform for REWS, the professionals responsible for property sales, design evaluation and scenario planning, space management, smart building assets, amenity site selection, operations, and security . . . and that's just the short list.\r\n\r\nWith ArcGIS, REWS professionals reap the benefits of quickly searching their portfolios with dynamic, map-based applications\u2014applications that quickly return results at any scale, whether it's a map of offices around the world or a map of a single floor or room in a building. These same applications give users the ability to use 2D or 3D interactive routing and navigation maps on their devices.\r\n\r\nEsri and its partners, including PenBay and GISi, work hard with a diverse user community to deliver:\r\n