Why your smart office needs an indoor navigation system

So, what exactly is an indoor navigation system?

The easiest way to understand it is to see it as a kind of indoor GPS system.

Think back to college, when you were trying to figure out the exact location of the building, the hall, and the classroom where you had your philosophy class. You probably spent forever trying to decipher a tiny campus map, asking people if they knew where to go, or just roaming the halls until you happened to stumble upon the classroom you were looking for. But they’re not much help when you’re inside of an office building or on a large company campus, trying desperately to figure out where the conference room for the 3:00 meeting actually is.

First of all, especially if a commercial building is large, it can be incredibly tough to get the reception you need to use with a GPS navigation system. And even if you could get reception inside of your building, there likely isn’t an app available with a clear indoor map of the buildings, points-of -interest such as available conference rooms, food locations, and offices, and directions to get you to them in the quickest way possible.

Most GPS systems focus only on outdoor directions — they’re not able to guide you through the hallways, different buildings, and rooms of a company campus or hospital. GPS signals are simply not strong enough to reach the indoors.

But indoor navigation systems can do exactly that.

They can help employees, students, visitors, patients, and even members of the public learn exactly where to go (and how to get around) inside of your building.

So, how do you get started on creating an indoor positioning system (IPS for short) for your building?

When it comes to creating your building maps, CADs will create an entire framework of your building, also allowing for the scale and positioning of things like entrances/exits, hallways, and restrooms.

In short?

CADs allow you to get the most accurate floor plan possible, which means you’ll be able to create foolproof maps for every part of your building.

Plus, CADs also help everyone using the indoor navigation system get a better feel for how long it will take them to get from point A to point B. They will even be able to give users a solid estimate of the amount of distance they’ll cover en route to their destinations.

When developing your maps, you may even decide that you want to leave restricted areas or spaces that aren’t open to the public out of the design altogether. This protects your company’s privacy and helps to cut down on confusion in general.

Web browser-based indoor navigation systems will let users create their own routes before they arrive get to at the building, and they won’t have to download an app to get the information they need. They’ll even be able to create digital itineraries and browse through directories in advance from any mobile browser.

Perhaps the most popular option is deploying a blue dot mobile app, which prompts users where to turn, in real-time, and pinpointing their exact location and walking route. This is essentially identical to common outdoor GPS systems and tools, except used indoors. Users can even receive location-based messages, like daily cafeteria menu’s, within the mobile app.

You can choose to use one or even all of these different platforms to help people get around your office space with ease.

Now, let’s talk about the incredible benefits of having a smart offices indoor navigation system accessible to employees and visitors in your work space.

Think about it: when you set up kiosks or offer downloadable apps to people that come to your business, you’re making it abundantly clear that you care about the overall customer experience.

This goes a long way towards increasing customer loyalty — and putting you a step ahead of your competitors.

We know that you want to know where the most popular and crowded areas are in your building. This way, you can think about ways to improve the “traffic” flow in a certain area of your building (don’t worry, if you make major changes, you’ll be able to update your indoor maps accordingly with a CMS system.) You can also use this kind of data to help you figure out where to put new things like kiosks, shopping stalls, representatives, reception desks, and much more.

But it’s not just about traffic control. It’s about understanding how you can better optimize your space, and learning more about which conference rooms or even individual destinations are the most popular. These kinds of insights may help you to realize that you need to create a few more meeting rooms, smaller collaboration pods, open up another coffee shop, find ways to reduce patient wait times, or even learn that you need to create more on-campus study spaces for students.

It’s a great way to understand the needs of the people you’re trying to serve — as well as what would improve the experience for your employees.

Constantly find that everyone in your office is running late to meetings? Are you frustrated by sudden location changes, getting lost, or just wasting your time by taking inefficient and extra long routes to get to where you need to go?

Chances are that many of your team members are feeling the same way. You want to do everything you can to increase not only morale at work, but also productivity. When people aren’t spending half of their time navigating around a space, they’ll be able to get more things done in a day, have more productive conversations with team members, and feel happier at work.

We absolutely understand that you don’t want setting up a building navigation system to mean that you then have to implement tons of new software. One of the best things about finding the right navigation systems for your indoor space is that they can seamlessly integrate with one another, existing elements of your infrastructure, as well as with your other digital tools.

You can use your IPS to send out appointment reminders, you can integrate it with your occupancy software, and you can, of course, connect the maps to your mobile devices. Because these maps are updated in real time, everyone will be looking at the same thing.

You can rest easy that you won’t end up making more work for people on your team. It’s all about doing more with fewer tools.

One final benefit of indoor navigation systems that many people overlook?

They can be incredible tools when it comes to keeping people in your building safe. If there is any kind of an emergency, you can send out real-time alerts to people in endangered areas. People can then find the best route to get out of the building safely and as soon as possible.

Anything that you can do to both alert people of a danger in your space and get them to safety is incredibly important. Plus, it just gives everyone peace of mind.

We hope that this post has helped you to learn more about not only how an indoor navigation system works and why it’s such an important investment for your business. The right navigation systems will help you to save time, learn about the habits and interests of your customers, and keep stress to a minimum for all. Of course, in order to take advantage of all these incredible benefits — and many more — you need to make sure you’re working with the very best indoor navigation system innovators. That’s where our incredible team at LogicJunction comes in.

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