Available with the ArcGIS Indoors Spaces extension.
Indoor Space Planner is a browser-based app that allows you to visualize and plan occupant assignments in indoor spaces. You can allocate space based on needs across your organization by creating organization areas and allocating units. You can plan for current or future changes to your workplace, and review and collaborate on plans with others in your organization. For example, with an office building you can use Space Planner to plan work locations for employees by assigning occupants to individual offices or workspace areas, which include office hotels that can be booked by remote employees when they visit the office. Another example of occupant planning with Space Planner includes planning the work locations for staff of a school or university campus or tenants of leased space within a commercial facility such as an airport or shopping mall.
You can create a plan in Space Planner to visualize where and how occupants are assigned to spaces. Using visualization tools and key data points, each plan provides a way to evaluate several scenarios before deciding on the plan that best fits your organizational needs. Planning professionals can export the accepted plan for use in other resource planning packages. Examples of systems that can implement the space planning information from Space Planner include move management systems and employee management systems.
The accepted plan can then be merged into the ArcGIS Indoors data model to become the new standard for the organization.
Maps created for Space Planner can also be used in Indoor Viewer and the Indoors mobile apps. These maps can be used to enable additional functionalities in the Indoors apps, such as viewing space assignments and booking meeting rooms or office hotels.
Configure the Space Planner app
Space Planner works with existing ArcGIS Indoors data. Before creating a Space Planner app, you must prepare a map in ArcGIS Pro and share it to your ArcGIS organization.
Configuring the Space Planner app includes the following high-level steps:
- Review the Space Planner system requirements.
- Configure your ArcGIS Online organization for Indoors.
- Load and curate your indoor data to conform with the ArcGIS Indoors Information Model in ArcGIS Pro.
- Prepare a map for Space Planner in ArcGIS Pro.
- Share the map to your ArcGIS Online organization.
- Create the Space Planner app.
- Create and open space plans.
Workflow examples
The following are examples of workflows supported by Space Planner:
Individual space assignments
Many organizations operate with occupants assigned to designated spaces. In these organizations, you can use Space Planner to view current assignments, unassign occupants and spaces, and reassign those occupants to new spaces. Once reassigned, the draft plan can be saved and revisited later to compare with other plans and find an optimal space planning solution.
Activity-based work environments
Other organizations operate in what are commonly known as activity-based work environments. This strategy of space management doesn’t have permanent assigned spaces but rather has spaces that are used on an as-needed or best-suited basis. This type of environment is becoming a popular space management strategy for organizations looking to maximize the use of expensive indoor space. In activity-based work environments, occupants can be assigned to a general area rather than a specific space. Space Planner can support this strategy by clearing current space assignments, managing workspace areas, and reassigning occupants to the new activity-based workspace areas.
Hybrid space assignments
Some organizations have combinations of ways occupants interact with space. Space Planner can support both individual and activity-based types of space assignments in a single plan if necessary. There is no need to choose one or the other.
Need-based space allocations
The need for individual or activity-based assignments varies across an organization. For example, a Sales department may need less office space for individual space assignments, as most of the team members may be working remotely due to frequent traveling, while a Human Resources department may require more individual space assignments as team members must be co-located for in-person collaboration. Organization areas can be used to plan and review space allocations and further facilitate workspace area planning by giving space planners insight into which units are available for assignment.