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 or Apple IPS for use with Indoors mobile apps.
Configure using ArcGIS IPS
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 iOS.
Configure indoor positioning
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.
- Validate the surveys to ensure the IPS data you collected is accurate.
Configure the Indoors mobile map
To configure indoor positioning using ArcGIS IPS, complete the following steps:
- Open the Indoors project in ArcGIS Pro.
- Add the IPS Positioning table to 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.
Configure using Apple IPS
You can use floor plan data from ArcGIS Indoors for Apple Indoor Maps and Positioning by exporting the Indoors model and converting it to an Indoor Mapping Data Format (IMDF). IMDF is a data model developed by Apple to describe an indoor space. The output of the format is a .zip folder of GeoJSON files. Converting the indoors model to IMDF requires using the Data Interoperability Extension to run the ArcGIS Indoors Model to IMDF workbench, available for download on FME Hub.
To enable indoor positioning using Apple IPS, you must join the Apple Indoor Maps Program. Signing up gives you access to the Apple Business Register where you can use the IMDF Sandbox to validate an IMDF file. After validating the IMDF file, submit the IMDF file as a venue to the Apple Business Register and survey buildings using the Apple Indoor Survey app. An approved survey will enable Apple IPS for the buildings surveyed.
Prepare the data for export
Complete the following steps to prepare the Indoors data for export to IMDF:
- Open the Indoors project in ArcGIS Pro.
- Run the Generate Unit Openings tool to create unit openings as line features to comply with IMDF requirements.
- Optionally, if the data contains two or more facilities that are far apart, create site features before running the workbench.
Run the workbench
Complete the following steps to run the workbench using the ArcGIS Data Interoperability extension:
- Download and install the Data Interoperability extension from My Esri or your ArcGIS organization.
- Authorize the extension with a valid license.
- After the Data Interoperability extension is installed and authorized, your ArcGIS Online or ArcGIS Enterprise administrator must assign a license to you.
- Download the ArcGIS Indoors Model to IMDF workbench.
Note:
The download contains two workbenches, a template, and a read-me file that describes the workflow to prepare the Indoors data, update the templates, and use the IMDF Sandbox to validate the exported IMDF file.
- Open ArcGIS Pro.
- On the Analysis tab, in the Workflows group, click Data Interop and click Workbench.
The ArcGIS Data Interop Workbench launches.
- In ArcGIS Data Interop Workbench, click Open and open the ArcGIS Indoors Model to IMDF workbench.
You can now run the workbench to export the indoor data to IMDF.