Esri officially goes into indoor mapping and analysis as it launched ArcGIS Indoors. 

The launching of ArcGIS Indoors comes on the heels of Esri’s acquisition of indoo.rs GmBH, a world-leading provider of Indoor Positioning System (IPS) technology. Its indoo.rs software will now be a part of ArcGIS Indoors. 

ArcGIS Indoors is Esri’s latest mapping product that enables interactive indoor mapping of corporate facilities, retail and commercial locations, airports, hospitals, event venues, universities, military bases, and more. 

The initial release of ArcGIS Indoors will include the acquired indoo.rs IPS capability to enable ArcGIS Indoors mobile apps to work with iBeacon-based IPS systems, which provides “blue dot” accuracy on mobile devices. Specifically, ArcGIS Indoors will provide floor-aware 3D maps and focused apps to support a variety of workplace and facility users, including owner/operators, maintenance and service personnel, security staff, employees and visitors. ArcGIS Indoors supports other IPS formats such as Apple’s indoor position service, and will add support for other IPS providers in future releases. 

What is the impact on the acquisition of indoo.rs and the release of ArcGIS Indoors? Existing indoo.rs customers will now have access to ArcGIS, adding the most powerful GIS software to their indoor mapping uses. On the other hand, ArcGIS platform users get imbedded IPS location services to support indoor mapping and analysis. 

For more information, go to the ArcGIS Indoors landing page.