Stations & Airports / Indoor Location and Asset Tracking

Indoor is where most of the time people live work and use smartphones.

Even when a worker has a fixed work position they often need to move inside the workplace for different reasons.

Problem

In the last 10 years, satellite navigation systems have changed the way users travel, but the real revolution in the industry occurred with the spread of smartphones (2,1 billion of smartphone users in 2016). As wireless technology continues to improve and wireless networks are ever more extensively deployed, the feasibility of developing Location-Based Services (LBS) has attracted growing interest.
This revolution, however, remains confined in outdoor environments: guidance services in open outdoor environments are easily implemented using Global Positioning System (GPS) technology, thanks to the presence of a strong signal between the user and the navigational satellite. On the other hand, GPS signals are unable to penetrate through building structures where the multiple reflections at surfaces cause multi-path propagation serving for uncontrollable errors: GPS is not suitable for indoor positioning.

Solution

Nextome provides:

  • Programmable notification system to contact a specific employee
  • Web-based Content Management System to update the information
  • Positioning and navigation on digital map
  • Data collection on visitors’ behaviors
  • Control room showing the complete user population positions on the map
  • Position export to other application function
  • Staff member’s smartphone position identification, collection and storage

That

  • Real-time track
  • Guide users in the airports (stations) to reach the gates (shops) and service facilities
  • Send Notifications (es. internal communication) and receive acknowledgement message
  • Provide to users information on position’s surroundings
  • Detect and count Presences in a specific environment
  • Expose current and historical positions and area accesses

Features

Seamless Indoor-Outdoor positioning

Integrates GPS to switch on outdoor maps when the user goes on an external area.

Data Collection of geo- referenced positioning data

Collects, aggregates and stores the calculated positions to provide analytics.

Location-based event

Throws an event when localizes the user in a defined area.

Workforce tracking

Employees and authorized staff members (like pro- moters and logistic service providers) can be tracked for service purposes, restricted areas access control and security.

Real-time monitoring

It’s possible to collect the position in real time in order to monitor a specific user or find the user in a specific position.

Custom Paths

Facilitates reaching home selected shopping list items.

POI information visualization

Search a POI and get its details and description.

Navigation

Get the route to reach a point of interest in the venue.

Targeted event

Throws an event when localizes the user in a defined area and the user profile matches predefined criteria.