A useful tool in your smart phone: mobile wayfinding

If you ask anyone that what that thing which he can’t live without is, then it would not be obvious if the answer is a cell phone. After the inventions of the smart phones, they have become our companion which we can’t live without. Smart phone with the N numbers of unbelievable applications has become a powerful gadget which can help us in many situations. A smart phone may have many applications and features like camera, Bluetooth, internet and Wi-Fi connection, gaming applications, chatting applications etc. But have you ever thought that what happens if you forget the path of a particular destination. There may be chances that people are not around you to help you to find out the path or there are people whom you can’t trust as they can lead you to the wrong path. So, what will you do in such a situation? Like any other situation, you’re smart phone will guide you to find out the path with the help of a mobile wayfinding app. Such tool is known as an indoor navigation tool.

The mobile wayfinding app helps you in indoor navigation. It is not just about a technology, it is also about the navigation from outdoor to indoor. This tool helps you to find out a way if you lost your path in many cases especially in large building complex or public areas like colleges, malls, hospitals, universities, airport and museums etc.

This mobile wayfinding tool is compatible with both iOS and Android. This tool uses a cloud service which gives high response time. It is fast in implementation and processing.

There are various features which increase the usability of this tool are as follows:

• User-friendly- This tool is not complicated in nature instead, it is easy to use. It provides a user-friendly interface to the user which is helpful in navigation.
• Multiple Modes of Communication- With the help of this app your smart phone may guide you in a learning style with the large on-screen maps and step-by-step bullet points. This application helps in providing clear turn-by-turn navigation instructions based on recognizable landmarks in the vicinity of the route.
• Multilingual Interface- You can use this tool in any other language as it provides multilingual interface. It serves every user without any discretion.
• Next-Generation Path finding- Intelligent logic junction in mobile wayfinding app plots brief directions to any location within a network. You just need to add the destination and this comprehensive tool set do the rest of the thing. It is helpful in routing every visitor to their end destination with ease.
• Efficiency- This tool uses a cloud solution service which makes it faster. The intelligent architecture of this tool helps users to find out a hassle free way to the destination.

There are many software companies which are making such tools and applications. When buying this application one may have to pay the licensing fee, administration fee and the annual licensing fee. The administration may consist of an application, server and the wayfinding management system which will make sure that the system will be working 24/7. And the necessary changes like the updating the server and the troubleshooting etc. can be carried out easily. It is a marvelous tool which is proving itself a valuable application and one can have it accordingly.

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