Anyone who has ever been to the airport knows how difficult it is to look for the right terminal or a certain store in Duty Free with less time in hand. In open space, the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) may guarantees a high level of positioning accuracy and availability. However, inside buildings or in complex urban environments, it does not work properly. So, there is a good news! GPS has been replaced by indoor navigation. A new technology that will become a positioning solution to indoor navigation.
Indoor navigation is concerned with locating large office buildings, museums, university buildings and shopping malls. It enhances the accuracy of Wi-Fi and positioning-based navigation and improves indoor orientation.
Indoor navigation can provide much more than just displaying a route map inside a building. For example, in a shopping malls, this navigation technology can find stores with a parking space. In large factories, internal navigation can track the location of skilled workers and equipment within the facility. This will help to achieve higher productivity.
Depending on the specific case, business representatives can improve the quality of customer service while visiting their sites, increase the level of security at the site, or expand the capabilities of internal logistics solutions. Thus, the demand for this technology is expected to increase in various spheres of human life.
On the other hand, the indoor navigation in the consumer segment allows mobile app users to:
- determine the location on the map of the building;
- lay routes to the desired point;
- receive geo-location clues and advertising notifications.
In the corporate sector, the same technology allows monitoring the movements of personnel, equipment and goods in real time. The use of such an infrastructure leads to handle emergency situations; access to restricted areas and detection of violations in the event of illegal entry.
We hope that very soon with the advent of this technology, the problems of indoor navigation will disappear and there will not be a single chance of getting lost.
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