{"id":1476912,"date":"2022-02-24T06:50:52","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T14:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&p=1476912"},"modified":"2022-04-12T22:32:20","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T05:32:20","slug":"what-is-indoor-positioning-2","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-ips\/indoor-gis\/what-is-indoor-positioning-2","title":{"rendered":"What is indoor positioning?"},"author":9212,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[763492],"tags":[763682,385632,364522,383332],"industry":[],"product":[763482],"class_list":["post-1476912","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indoor-gis","tag-blue-dot","tag-indoor-gis","tag-indoor-mapping","tag-indoor-positioning","product-arcgis-ips"],"acf":{"short_description":"Learn what indoor positioning is and how it can help your whole organization optimize interactions and operations at the workplace.","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Unlike the outdoor world, the indoor world is expanding. According to the United Nations’ Global Status Report 2017<\/a>, the total amount of indoor square footage will roughly double by 2060. That equals building Japan’s floor area every year for the next 38 years. This immense growth of the indoor space presents us with challenges such as how space is used optimally, how we consume energy more efficiently and interact with our indoor environment.<\/p>\n

Technological evolution makes it possible to turn buildings into smart buildings and create indoor spaces that help organizations not only improve efficiencies but also wellbeing at the workplace.<\/p>\n

Indoor GIS brings the benefits of GIS to the indoor world and enables use cases inside buildings that have previously been reserved for outdoors. Indoor GIS and indoor positioning systems\u00a0solve this \u201clast mile issue\u201d by bridging the gap to the indoor world.<\/p>\n

An indoor positioning system (IPS) allows users to locate themselves and others inside a building in real time. You can think of it as a GPS-like experience, but for indoor spaces. The blue dot enables various use cases for diverse industries and areas such as aviation, railway, corporate campuses, AEC, healthcare, and others.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"quote","author_name":"United Nations","author_profession_organization":"","image":{"ID":1492532,"id":1492532,"title":"construction-site_280x280","filename":"construction-site_280x280.gif","filesize":52747,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2022\/02\/construction-site_280x280.gif","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-ips\/indoor-gis\/what-is-indoor-positioning-2\/construction-site_280x280","alt":"construction site","author":"9212","description":"","caption":"","name":"construction-site_280x280","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":1476912,"date":"2022-02-24 17:26:26","modified":"2022-02-24 17:26:41","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/gif","type":"image","subtype":"gif","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":280,"height":280,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2022\/02\/construction-site_280x280-213x200.gif","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2022\/02\/construction-site_280x280.gif","medium-width":261,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2022\/02\/construction-site_280x280.gif","medium_large-width":280,"medium_large-height":280,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2022\/02\/construction-site_280x280.gif","large-width":280,"large-height":280,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2022\/02\/construction-site_280x280.gif","1536x1536-width":280,"1536x1536-height":280,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2022\/02\/construction-site_280x280.gif","2048x2048-width":280,"2048x2048-height":280,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2022\/02\/construction-site_280x280.gif","card_image-width":280,"card_image-height":280,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2022\/02\/construction-site_280x280.gif","wide_image-width":280,"wide_image-height":280}},"text":"By 2060, buildings sector floor area will double. Those additions are equivalent to building the current floor area of Japan every single year from now until 2060."},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

How does indoor positioning work?<\/h2>\n

Due to line-of-sight obstruction caused by building walls and other obstacles, GPS signals are not strong enough to render positioning results of sufficient quality inside buildings. Instead, new technology is needed to enable the blue dot indoors. For that reason, indoor positioning has not been as commonplace as outdoor positioning and wayfinding has become a long time ago.<\/p>\n

ArcGIS IPS<\/a> is Esri\u2019s new indoor positioning system that enables real-time indoor location services within ArcGIS Indoors and in custom apps built with ArcGIS Runtime SDKs. To implement the system inside a building, Bluetooth Beacons<\/a>, also often referred to as iBeacons are installed inside the building.<\/p>\n

They are small one-way radio transmitters that send out information about their location, which is then picked up by the mobile device to calculate the position. The ArcGIS IPS Setup mobile app helps collect these radio signals to enable the indoor blue dot experience on end-user devices.<\/p>\n

ArcGIS IPS adds another layer of location intelligence<\/a> to buildings and provides GIS managers, facility managers, and senior executives with the location information they need to unlock the full potential of their corporate facilities and make better informed decisions.<\/p>\n

Indoor positioning use cases:<\/p>\n