Available with the ArcGIS Indoors Maps extension.
You can configure an indoor positioning system (IPS) for use in Indoors mobile apps 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 and navigate to people, places, and assets inside a facility in real time. You can configure indoor positioning using ArcGIS IPS for use with Indoors mobile apps.
Configure using ArcGIS IPS
Caution:
The ArcGIS Pro 3.3 release includes a new set of ArcGIS IPS tools that are currently not supported in Indoors. Use the Classic toolset instead.
To enable indoor positioning using ArcGIS IPS, you must create tables using tools in ArcGIS Pro and survey the facilities to collect data about the indoor spaces using ArcGIS IPS Setup. ArcGIS IPS Setup is a mobile app for Android and iOS that allows you to plan and perform survey recordings inside facilities and sites to collect location data. Recordings can be uploaded from the IPS Setup app to an ArcGIS organization and used to create a positioning file that you can include in a mobile map package to enable indoor positioning in ArcGIS Indoors for Android.
Prerequisites
To configure indoor positioning using ArcGIS IPS, complete the following steps:
- Prepare and share a map for use with ArcGIS IPS.
- Create the required IPS Recordings and IPS Positioning tables using the Enable Indoor Positioning tool.
- Download the ArcGIS IPS Setup app on a mobile device and sign in to your ArcGIS organization.
- Perform surveys of indoor spaces in IPS Setup on a mobile device.
- Generate a positioning file using the Generate Indoor Positioning File tool.
Note:
Alternatively, if you have precise beacon positions and detailed wall information of a facility, you can generate a positioning file without performing surveys using the Generate Indoor Positioning File Without Survey tool.
- Validate the surveys to ensure that the IPS data is accurate.
Configure the Indoors mobile map
To configure indoor positioning using ArcGIS IPS, complete the following steps:
- Open an Indoors project in ArcGIS Pro.
- Include the IPS Positioning table populated during the positioning file creation in the Indoors mobile map in ArcGIS Pro.
Caution:
The IPS Positioning table should only contain one row, which represents a single positioning file.
- Package and share the mobile map package.