Available with the ArcGIS Indoors Maps extension.
You can configure an indoor positioning system (IPS) for use in ArcGIS Indoors Mobile that provides accurate geolocation for a variety of indoor location use cases. An IPS allows you to locate yourself indoors by displaying a blue dot on an indoor map to navigate to people, places, and assets inside a facility in real time. You can configure indoor positioning with ArcGIS IPS for Android or iOS.
To enable indoor positioning using ArcGIS IPS, you must generate an IPS positioning dataset. Indoor positioning data is comprised of features that represent the walls, features that represent Bluetooth beacon locations, and polygons that represent areas where indoor positioning will be enabled in a facility. These features are used together to generate an IPS positioning dataset without conducting a survey.
Note:
Alternatively, if you have configured the indoor positioning system by conducting an IPS survey, the survey-based workflow is still supported but is planned for future deprecation. Consider switching to the survey-less workflow when updating your indoor positioning system.
The resulting IPS positioning dataset can be used to share an indoor positioning data service that you must include in a mobile map package to enable indoor positioning in Indoors Mobile.
Configure indoor positioning
To configure indoor positioning, complete the following steps:
- Prepare and share a map for use with ArcGIS IPS.
- Create the prerequisite features that will be used for generating indoor positioning data.
- Generate an IPS positioning dataset using the Generate Indoor Positioning Dataset tool.
- Share the IPS positioning dataset as an indoor positioning data service using the Share Indoor Positioning Data Service tool.
Configure the Indoors Mobile map
To configure the Indoors Mobile map, complete the following steps:
- Open the Indoors project in ArcGIS Pro.
- Include the published indoor positioning data service in the map prepared for Indoors Mobile to make the map IPS aware.
- Package and share the mobile map package.