Indoor positioning adds location awareness to your indoor GIS. It enables real-time indoor navigation for visitors and building occupants to improve efficiency and reduce frustration of finding places and points of interest. It also supports facilities and IT workers in reducing services times, helping them navigate to work order locations and assets in complex campuses. Indoor positioning unlocks other capabilities like location sharing and providing insights related to occupancy patterns and trends in your indoor environment.
An Indoor Positioning System (IPS) is needed to get the familiar “blue dot” on an indoor map. The blue dot in common outdoor navigation apps is powered by Global Positioning System (GPS) which requires an unobstructed view of the sky hence it does not work inside buildings.
Check out this great blog by Sophie Frank and Gaurav Jobanputra!
https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-indoors/indoor-gis/1948632-2/
