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Indoor Positioning App

Indoor Positioning App

A system was created with the aid of networking devices to help users navigate inside places from their current location to a destined point of interest.

This solution makes use of technology different from traditional GPS navigation. It helps in locating underground areas as well.


  • Country United States of America
  • Service  GIS
  • Industry Multiple




Process Followed

  After lining up salient details related to inventory management and logistics application development, our team outlined a course of action that would be followed to develop a comprehensive solution. The process comprised of identification of problems, considering the relevant factors of the solution, taking note of common challenges faced, and coming up with the outcome in the end.


Problem Identification 

Feasibility study 

Solution Implementation 

Challenges 

Final Outcome 

Problem

Problem Identification

Almost everyone on earth seeks the help of GPS navigation to locate unfamiliar places. However, many often face a hard time finding areas that are in close range. Let's say a meeting room in an office. It was important to develop such an app that would be useful in locating people or objects inside buildings.

  • Navigate close proximity areas in the building.
  • Advance GPS navigation technology.
  • Fetching location using Bluetooth-enabled iBeacon.
  • Navigate from the user’s current location to a destined point of interest.
Feasibility

Feasibility Study

A server-based solution was required to provide users with information on POIs (points of interest) over the map on a mobile device. This map-reading technology also leads the user to navigate from their current location to a preferred POI. An elevated reality technology was called for to create a comprehensive indoor map solution.

  • Showing current user location over the map inside a premise/ building.
  • Implementing POI based upon categories/ subcategories.
  • Creating the shortest possible route for the selected location.
  • Featured voice command to direct users to the chosen destination.

Solution Implementation

User research

After figuring out the project requirements and solution insight, it was time to get the evaluation done by those who are going to use the application. We surveyed to get the nous of the users in which we put a question about difficulties faced by them in locating inside places. We also inquired if they have used any indoor positioning app to locate nearby places and what features they miss in those applications.

Product discovery workshop

It is important to develop the solution keeping the needs of the client and target audience in mind. An application undergoes an extensive method of amassing requirements, implementation, and integration. When your customer approaches you to develop any application, there are always a few things that they ought to know. Therefore, to avoid any confusion it is better to have a pre-app-development discussion with your client.

For that, we arranged a meeting to discuss the solution with our client that mainly involved the discourse of technical manpower requirements, and features of the application and demonstrated the insight of the users we surveyed. This helped us in getting clearance if we are on the right track to develop an app that meets the expectations of the client as well as our users.


Product discovery workshop

Competitor Analysis

If you are into a similar business, it becomes necessary for you to make yourself aware of the strengths and weaknesses of potential competitors. There are many software development companies that have developed inside navigating solutions and it was our accountability to figure out what those solutions lack so that we can succeed in those areas and be prominent with our product.

Frequently Asked Questions


  • Showing location over the map inside a building 
  • Implementing POI based upon categories 
  • Creating the shortest possible route for the selected location 
  • Advanced map-reading technology 

Bluetooth offers low-cost, energy-efficient and easy to deploy indoor positioning and tracking technology. The indoor positioning relies on Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacons mounted on objects, walls, ceilings, and other places from where they emit radio signals at predetermined intervals. Devices within the emission area can then detect the signals and this helps to establish if the two (emitter and receiver) are within the range of each other.

The solution is aimed to provide users with information on POIs (point of interest) over the map on a mobile device. With this solution, we seek- 

  • Showing current user location over the map inside a premise/ building 
  • Implementing POI based upon categories/ subcategories 
  • Creating the shortest possible route for the selected location 
  • Featured voice command to direct users to the chosen destination 

The idea was to develop an app that resolves the common problem of finding nearby places in users and provide them with seamless GPS navigation experience. A server-based solution was required to provide users with information on POIs (point of interest) over the map on a mobile device. This map-reading technology also leads the user to navigate from their current location to a preferred POI. An elevated reality technology was called for to create a comprehensive indoor map solution.

 We used technologies- Google Maps, Swift, Java, GPS etc.

Few similar ones are- Google Indoor Map, HERE Indoor Radio Mapping, IndoorAtlas MapCreator 2, Indoorway, Path Guide, Indoor Navigation.

Challenges

The Challenges

There is a flip side to everything. Where an app development is room to maneuver, it also involves many inquests, problems, and complications. This part, for developers, is known as a challenge.

  • Swiping multiple images on mobile when they arrived from SDK.
  • Providing a new and correct path when a user follows a wrong path.
  • Identifying the current challenges of indoor LBS.
  • Overlapping of POIs sometimes.
  • Make availability of up-to-date indoor maps.
  • To manage privacy concerns associated with location data.

Final Outcome

After taking good note of the other similar applications available in the market and getting the drift of the problems faced by our development team, we captured requirements, presented customers with wireframes/ static, and developed a native and hybrid indoor positioning application.

  • Adding modules like displaying POIs over the map.
  • Searching a POI with various filters of categories and subcategories.
  • Display route navigation for differently-abled.
  • Seamless integration of GUI on top of existing SDK.
  • In-App Push notifications, Alerts, Images and Videos of POIs.
  • High data accuracy for an end-to-end operation.
  • Flexibility to cancel a route with alerts to the wrong route.
Final Outcome
Indoor Positioning App

Technology  Stack

Swift   Swift  
Java Java
Google MapsGoogle Maps

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