Join us in Washington, DC from February 24 to 26, 2025 to discover how the ArcGIS platform enables informed decision-making, helping government leaders know exactly how and where to take action. Learn how different agencies are using a geographic approach to improve planning, support operations, and make a positive impact on society.
Indoor GIS is a unified floor-aware ArcGIS system for visualizing, analyzing, and managing indoor spaces. This ability gives federal government agencies powerful tools to make their operations more efficient and make the people who use and visit their buildings feel better. Indoor GIS is powered by indoor maps created with ArcGIS Indoors, and indoor positioning could be overlaid through ArcGIS IPS.
ArcGIS Indoors extends ArcGIS into an indoor GIS system for space and building management. It enables organizations to create indoor system of record, visualize, analyze and manage their buildings and campuses, and pave the path for living digital twins. It does this by providing an information model that is based on data from BIM, CAD, Lidar scans (new!) and other sources. This is particularly useful in large federal facilities such as courthouses, military bases, and administrative centers.
ArcGIS IPS provides real-time indoor positioning, location awareness, and location sharing capabilities by leveraging Bluetooth beacons and Wi-Fi infrastructure. This can be crucial for asset inspection and emergency communications, ensuring that resources are quickly navigated to or located and deployed where needed. Together with other floor-aware Esri products such as ArcGIS Field Maps and ArcGIS Survey123, an indoor GIS system enables asset mapping, enhances visitor services, improves safety and security initiatives, and facilitates effective space management, ultimately leading to better service delivery and safer environments.
Learn about Indoor GIS professional development sessions
ArcGIS Indoors: An Overview
Monday, Feb 24 | 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM EST | Room 156, WEWCC
Tuesday, Feb 25 | 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM EST | Room 101, WEWCC
Create powerful indoor maps with ArcGIS Indoors. This presentation explains how to convert building information modeling (BIM) and computer-aided design (CAD) files, lidar scans, and other data sources into interactive, floor-aware indoor maps of buildings. Discover how to use these maps to power ArcGIS Indoors applications for indoor asset management, space management, safety and security, space planning, workspace reservations, indoor navigation, and incident reporting.
Reality Mapping for Infrastructure Life Cycle Management
Monday, Feb 24 | 4:15 PM – 5:15 PM EST | Room 101, WEWCC
Do you want to easily create your own customized 3D visualization and analysis web experiences? Digital twins of built environments are essential for infrastructure life cycle management (ILM). The mapping capabilities of ArcGIS Reality offer government organizations an enhanced awareness of their assets for inspection and better management. Discover how reality mapping and 3D capabilities enable you to support federal ILM programs seamlessly by merging exterior and interior reality models with building informational modeling (BIM) designs of the built environment.
Infrastructure Life Cycle Management with ArcGIS: A Geographic Approach to Managing Facilities
Tuesday, Feb 25 | 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM EST | Room 156, WEWCC
Minimize information loss and adopt a more comprehensive approach to infrastructure life cycle management by using a location-based framework to facilitate data integration across workstreams. Join us to learn how ArcGIS can help you manage your assets, from your complete facilities portfolio to every asset within your facilities, through a single platform that integrates outdoor and indoor spaces.
Indoor GIS: Creating and Maintaining an Indoor GIS of Your Facility
Tuesday, Feb 25 | 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM EST | Room 102 A, WEWCC
An indoor GIS helps facilities address the needs related to indoor spaces, such as asset mapping, space management, safety and security, and occupant and visitor experience. This presentation discusses how to convert building information modeling (BIM), computer-aided design (CAD), lidar, and other data into floor-aware indoor maps that power an indoor GIS. Through a facility asset management use case that includes mapping indoor assets, discover how to use your indoor GIS to efficiently collect asset locations, understand local conditions with 360-degree photos, and find and navigate to them with your mobile device.
ArcGIS: How Floor-Aware Indoor Maps Can Improve Public Safety and Response
Tuesday, Feb 25 | 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM EST | Room 156, WEWCC
Threats and emergencies can happen anywhere, at any scale. As any first responder knows, an incident inside of a building comes with its own special set of unknowns—especially if the building is large and complex, or the incident requires tactical response. If a crisis occurs inside of a facility, using detailed GIS-based indoor maps to locate callers and resources can make all the difference. Join us to learn how emergency response systems can increase situational awareness and provide the best response possible. Explore how ArcGIS helps organizations build, maintain, share, and operationalize 3D maps and floor-aware GIS data in emergency communications to improve outcomes and protect communities.
ArcGIS Indoors: Space Planning and Workplace Management
Tuesday, Feb 25 | 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM EST | Room 102 A, WEWCC
Do you want to help your organization with GIS-based space planning? Join us to learn how ArcGIS Indoors Space Planner streamlines indoor space management for workspace utilization. Discover how to address key challenges such as business unit space allocation and occupant space assignments. Additionally, speakers share how to offer a web and native mobile experience to support employees with finding the people, places, assets, and amenities that are needed and scheduling spaces to work and collaborate when in the office.
ArcGIS: Incident Detection and Threat Management
Tuesday, Feb 25 | 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM EST | Room 143 B, WEWCC
In today’s increasingly volatile world, having access to real-time information is critical for security professionals to help them protect the people, places, and things that they care about. Join us to learn how ArcGIS GeoEvent Server and ArcGIS Velocity can be used to monitor and analyze real-time threat information to help improve response time and increase resiliency. This presentation highlights how to use indoor tracking and reporting to further enhance your threat awareness.
Esri Showcase: Meet our experts
Additionally, don’t miss the opportunity to meet with Indoor GIS experts in the ArcGIS showcase on the lower level. Our product team members will be available to answer your specific questions and offer recommendations.
This year, Esri is providing an indoor mapping experience powered by ArcGIS Indoors. Attendees can use a web map or the Esri Events mobile app to easily navigate the conference center and locate everything they need.
Explore the Federal GIS Event Map
Resources
For further information, please visit our Indoor GIS capability page and ArcGIS Indoors and ArcGIS IPS product pages. Explore government success stories highlighting how ArcGIS Indoors is transforming operations.
- Improving Space Planning and Resource Optimization: The Mountain Home Air Force Base engineering team uses ArcGIS Indoors to visualize indoor spaces, navigate the base, and optimize space management.
- Navigating the Path to Smart Facilities: King County uses ArcGIS Indoors to leverage indoor space management to effectively meet requirements of their hybrid workplace model.
Learn about other use cases, including indoor navigation, space planning, and asset management, for ArcGIS Indoors and ArcGIS IPS.
- Michigan State University employs ArcGIS Indoors to create interactive mapping system that facilitates indoor wayfinding and maintenance management on campus.
- Raleigh Water enables vertical asset management program using ArcGIS Indoors to generate 2D and 3D representations of their interior spaces.
- Rutgers University uses ArcGIS Indoors to create an indoor map of the university’s most complex building and enable student wayfinding.
- ETH Zurich uses ArcGIS IPS to provide barrier-free real-time indoor navigation across its campus, enhancing the occupant and visitor experience.
- Brigham Young University-Idaho optimizes campus space planning and asset tracking with ArcGIS Indoors.
- Austin Community College District enhances campus navigation with ArcGIS Indoors Viewer.
See you at FedGIS!
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