Indoor Mapping Blog

Indoor mapping presents an exciting opportunity for enterprise organizations, but it also comes with its own unique set of challenges. In this emerging market, there are few set standards, complex integrations, rapidly changing business requirements, and many unanswered questions. 

Following a decline in usage after World War II, rail transport has seen a revival in popularity in recent decades thanks to an increase in congestion on roads, rising fuel prices, and government investment in rail as a means of reducing CO2 emissions. In much of the world, railway stations and passenger train transportation is ingrained in the infrastructure of cities, and account for a significant portion of public space. Railway stations are a fixture in our cityscapes and are in the process of a digital transformation in the face of centuries of legacy systems and technology.

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"Over the past few years, the stage has been set for greater implementation of IoT projects across various industries and use cases. In 2019, we can expect that the availability and access to location services will expand beyond individual sites to a larger scale as we look forward to wider enterprise adoption. I also anticipate that in the coming year buildings will get smarter, both by initial design and through retrofitting and adaptation, and that there will be some prescient changes in the indoor mapping and positioning technology provider landscape."

In airports today, the congestion struggle is real. As these complex transportation hubs become more and more congested with passengers, cargo, and aircraft in transit, the effects are felt by everyone. Many of these ramifications can’t simply be fixed by implementing congestion pricing.

In a corporate campus environment, indoor mapping and location technologies can help to streamline a variety of everyday processes and eliminate many common frustrations. From checking the status of a given meeting room or workspace and reserving it to checking the status and location of equipment or resources in a building, having visual context of a space and its assets significantly enhances one's ability to use this information.

So, what value does visual context provide?