Built Environment and Indoor Spaces

What percentage of people's daily time is spent indoors?

What is a limitation of current indoor navigation apps?

What is a result of limited sunshine and artificial lights in indoor spaces?

What is a challenge of modelling and analyzing indoor spaces?

What is a characteristic of geometric approaches to indoor navigation?

What is a potential area of development for indoor navigation?

What is one of the use cases of navigation in public buildings?

What is the primary benefit of using BIM for owners?

What type of environments require navigation to info desks/booths?

What is the purpose of BIM in construction projects?

What is one of the challenges in navigation within construction sites?

What is the result of using BIM for owners in terms of lifecycle costs?

What is the purpose of navigation in orientation scenarios like libraries ?

What is the benefit of using BIM for operational efficiencies?

87% of people spend their day indoors, and 60% of the population lives in cities, making indoor spaces a significant area of study.
Indoor spaces are complex, with features like closed spaces, limited sunshine, artificial lights, no natural shadows, man-made structures, obstacles, and narrow spaces, making navigation and modeling challenging.

Current indoor navigation apps are limited, using floor plans or 2.5D surfaces, and ignoring vertical information, thematic semantics, obstacles, and Granularity.
Geometric approaches are used, but lack thematic semantics, such as doors, windows, and room details.
Individual guidance is provided, but with no simultaneous navigation for multiple users, and only walk and drive locomotion modes.

Future possibilities include navigation in public buildings, exhibitions, airports, construction sites, libraries, and shopping malls.
Other applications include maintenance and repair operations, navigating to mobile facilities, and emergency response.

Building Information Modeling (BIM)

BIM is an intelligent model-based process for business and industry transformation.
It uses 3D models to capture, explore, and maintain consistent and coordinated planning, design, construction, and operational data.
BIM provides greater project insight, enables prompt response to change, and smarter and faster processes.

Benefits of BIM for Owners

BIM empowers owners to improve building quality, reduce building lifecycle costs, better understand design projects, optimize operational efficiencies, and increase occupancy and use rates.
It also provides transparency, quality, and efficiency in building design and operation.

Explore the characteristics of indoor spaces, including their effects on human behavior, movement, and perception. Learn about the challenges of navigating indoor environments and how they differ from outdoor spaces.