Effortless Indoor Wayfinding System with Advanced Technology

Indoor wayfinding is the process of helping people navigate and find their ways around complex indoor environments, such as airports, shopping malls, hospitals or university campuses. It involves providing clear and concise directions, signage, and other visual cues to help people reach their desired destinations.

Overall, indoor wayfinding can provide many benefits for businesses and customers alike, from improving the customer experience to enhancing safety and security, accessibility, optimizing space utilization, and saving costs.

Indoor wayfinding software can have a variety of features, depending on the specific solution and its intended use case. Some common features of indoor wayfinding software include interactive maps, multi-floor support, real-time location tracking, customizable routes, point-of-interest identification, accessibility options, integration with other systems, and mobile app compatibility.

Indoor navigation is important for creating a positive and effective indoor environment, enhancing customer experience, safety and efficiency, and helping businesses achieve their goals and objectives.

GPS signals cannot be used indoors for several reasons including signal attenuation, multi-path interference, lack of line of sight or limited GPS coverage.

While the user functionalities for both indoor and outdoor navigation and wayfinding systems are quite similar, the core differentiator between the two is the technological backbone used to navigate the respective surroundings. While most outdoor systems are GPS-driven, we need alternative technology for indoor navigation as GPS has many challenges indoors. Mapsted uses advanced routing technology devoid of beacons or BLEs to provide accurate indoor navigation.

With an increasing number of competitors in the indoor navigation market, Mapsted with its patented hardware-free technology is the market leader for many reasons. In addition to accuracy, Mapsted’s indoor wayfinding systems employ landmark-based routing for simple and logical navigation. Rerouting and multiple language support also ensure seamless routing to help users reach their destination quickly.

Business owners should list down their short and long-term objectives while also checking for compatibility with existing software, effectiveness, security, dynamic mapping availability, longevity of services, customizability and hosting mechanism. Here’s in-depth information on things to consider when choosing a wayfinding solution partner.