A Useful App In Your Smartphone: Indoor Wayfinding

Whenever we go to any new place like any hospital, airport, library etc. we sometimes face many challenges in finding out any particular location or destination. Though, the facilities of Signage such as board, Kiosk or Touch screen LCD are always there in such places but that Signage facilities do not work sometimes in complicated places. So, in such situation your amazing Smartphone can help you out by finding the exact path of a particular destination. Like any other useful application such as weather report, news, Google maps for outdoor directions, local restaurants, traffic updates or flight status information, etc. a Smartphone can also have an wayfinding application.

The indoor wayfinding application is similar to the other Signage whose purpose is to offer directions like indoor or outdoor, on-demand, on- and off-site, through a Kiosk, web or touch screen LCD to the visitors. The Signage is generally fixed in its place but wayfinding app can be installed on your device that means, you can navigate it whenever you want without asking the routes of your surrounding people. You can use this app if you are lost in public areas such as mall, colleges, hospitals etc.

The Mobile wayfinding app can be offered in the following two ways:

1. Batch based approach
2. Turn-by-Turn navigation

This app is suitable with both Android and iOS and can use a cloud computation service that is helpful in achieving the high response time. Some features of this app are given below:

• Gives end to end routes
• Data-driven wayfinding engine
• Back-office (Servers) for making updates
• Offers preferred routes
• Suggests alternate (available) routes also
• Turn out directions

Advantages:

• Fast & efficient
• Interactive interface
• Multi-instruction mode
• Multilingual
• Works 24*7

You can use this app anytime whenever you feel the need of it and it will help in finding the hassle free route for you. This tool can be used in public areas such as in a large building complex. Following are some areas or industries where you need this app:

• Airports
• Cemeteries
• Education (Universities)
• Government & Corporate
• Health Care (Hospitals)
• Malls
• Museums

Once you install this amazing app in your Smartphone then you don’t need to rely on others. You can visit every location or area without even concerning about its complexity. Following are some other benefits that you will get with this tool:

• No need of other external signal devices- If you have such wayfinding tools on your device then you don’t need to install any other external signal devices inside the indoor location. Just operate this app through your Smartphone and it will help you out with real-time and turn-by-turn navigation.
• Less maintenance- Such wayfinding apps have their servers also which work 24*7 and allows automatic updates and troubleshooting in your device. So, you don’t need to expand much.
• Faster implementation- It uses cloud computation hence it is reliable, scalable and fast in service.

So, you can have such astonishing wayfinding app in your Smartphone that helps you every time in finding the best possible route for you.

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