Learn How IBM TRIRIGA Indoor Maps Can Positively Transform Employee’s Occupancy Experiences.

Learn How IBM TRIRIGA Indoor Maps Can Positively Transform Employee’s Occupancy Experiences
Image Source: Bring your floor plans to life with indoor mapping - IBM Business Operations Blog

Your return-to-work approach must empower your employees to visualize and easily locate workspaces.

With the rapid change in the way workspaces are functioning, the need for improved building management has grown.

So, why should you consider boosting the management of your workspaces?

Consider the number of workspaces you maintain. You could fetch a wealth of information from every floor plan. This can particularly help when your employees are returning to work after the pandemic. At this time, their safety remains the priority. For example, consider a scenario wherein the floor and workspace allocated for employee A have changed to accommodate social distancing. Have you made it easier for the employee to find this newly allocated space? Do you offer a medium to your employees to be prepared ahead thereby creating an amazing occupant experience for them?

IBM TRIRIGA Indoor Maps offers all these and more. The IBM TRIRIGA indoor maps is an add-on solution that allows wayfinding within the TRIRIGA Locate App thereby providing a next-gen kiosk experience for your employees. This solution encompasses ArcGIS Indoors along with its capabilities from ESRI that facilitate the conversion of static floorplans into highly interactive maps.

Why Is Indoor Mapping Becoming an Expectation of Modern and Flexible Workspaces?

Indoor mapping or wayfinding is rapidly becoming the new norm because this solution is:

Strategic

  • Obtain more value from your building’s floor plan data
  • Get access to configurable workflows, maps, and routes

User-friendly

  • Enables your employees to easily locate important spaces and points in your buildings
  • Compatible and responsive designs for mobile, desktop, and kiosks

Offers Improved Customer Experience

  • Allows your employees to experience capabilities that help them better understand the facility and services offered to them for their safety.

The Integrated Solution Architecture of TRIRIGA Indoor Wayfinding

The Integrated Solution Architecture of TRIRIGA Indoor Wayfinding

Floorplans

The floorplans are defined using CAD drawings or BIM models. These plans are the basis of space data in TRIRIGA and the indoor maps.

  • They automatically generate space representations within TRIRIGA when using the CAD or BIM integration tools.
  • The floor plans are also able to automatically get converted to geospatial data for indoor maps within Esri ArcGIS Indoors using the ArcGIS Pro tools.
  • The quality of the floor plan is superior. This enables the proper function of the CAD/BIM data that allows the representation of walls, doors, polylines, and consistency of layers across floors.

Space Data in TRIRIGA

  • The TRIRIGA system ingests building and floorplan data. This enables the creation of a space hierarchy model for the entire facility.
  • Space Managers and Planners can enrich the data by adding on allocations and people assignments.
  • Reservation Managers add value to the data by defining reservable spaces and other appropriate resources.
  • The Operations Managers add assets to the available space data and also link it to the TRIRIGA records for efficient operations management.
  • This data obtained interacts with other available TRIRIGA records to support roles in the Facility Management team. Further, this helps track and manage leases, capital projects, internal chargebacks, and corporate sustainability goals.

Geospatial Model

The ArcGIS Indoors produces a geospatial model. This includes routing pathways across the entire facility or campus. ArcGIS indoors has two components that work in unison. They are the ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS enterprise.

ArcGIS Pro offers the required tools to:

  • Ingest data from floor plans and TRIRIGA
  • Enrich data with points of interest and routes
  • Generate a complete geospatial model of the facility
  • Publish maps

ArcGIS Enterprise offers the following:

  • Server to host maps for interactive routable maps for all facilities
  • Highly configurable 2D and 3D map visualizations
  • Viewer applications
  • APIs to embed maps

Indoor Maps

The connector for Esri ArcGIS Indoors enables interactive maps and wayfinding within TRIRIGA perceptive apps.

  • The connector for Esri ArcGIS Indoors is available as an Object Migration package that can be installed into your TRIRIGA instance
  • It enables new fields within TRIRIGA to configure authentication with Esri ArcGIS Enterprise Server, configure view settings, and link maps to buildings, floors, and spaces in TRIRIGA
  • It adds UI for indoor maps within the TRIRIGA Locate perceptive app. The UI enables the search for people, and spaces, as well as step-by-step wayfinding across campus. The UI is invoked for buildings that are configured for indoor maps.
  • The UI can be configured for kiosk mode. Requires a dedicated user with settings to configure specific kiosk settings such as position on the map and zoom level.
  • Kiosk mode runs within web browser-enabled kiosks or touch screen devices in the horizontal orientation.

What Are the Features of TRIRIGA Indoor Maps?

This solution includes the combination of the following:

  • TRIRIGA Applications with interactive 2D Indoor maps (ArcGIS Enterprise)

    • - Enhanced TRIRIGA Locate Application

    - Kiosk Application

  • Portal with interactive 3D Indoor maps (ArcGIS Enterprise)
  • Multi building wayfinding across indoor/outdoor spaces
  • GIS Content Management (ArcGIS Pro)
  • Automation with TRIRIGA space/floorplans (ArcGIS Pro)
  • Automation for CAD/BIM floorplan conversion to GIS or IMDF (SAFE)
  • Automatic for route generation
  • Mapping, routing, and points of interest customizations
  • Integration with indoor positioning systems (GPS, Wifi, BLE)

    • - Cisco DNA Spaces integration

    - Apple Indoor Positioning Integration

What Are the Benefits of Using This Solution?

This solution enables:

  • The seamless orientation of employees who are returning to work.
  • Your employees to have a better occupancy experience along with improved safety.
  • Employees to easily navigate and locate their workspaces or important locations.
  • Direct delivery of workplace services.
  • Employees to effortlessly find their desired destination within the workplace while minimizing the disruption of work.
  • Visualization of spatial data that helps workspace planners prepare safer workplace environments backed by floor-ware indoor maps based on CAD/BIM drawings and TRIRIGA data.

What Differentiates This Solution from Other Indoor Maps?

  • Most organizations have GIS Departments with in-house Esri skills. This simplifies the implementation of this solution.
  • Involves unparalleled GIS automation
  • It is web-based
  • The solution is highly configurable
  • It includes flexible indoor positioning integrations

About Quantum Strides

Quantum Strides LLC is an IBM Artificial Intelligence Business Partner specializing in IBM TRIRIGA (Integrated Workforce Management Solution), and IBM Maximo (Enterprise Asset Management) solutions. Quantum Strides also provides Cybersecurity solutions that help with cyber threat management and incidence response.

If you are looking to adopt indoor wayfinding for your workplace or need further information about this solution, feel free to contact us or email us at iwms@quantumstrides.com for more information.

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