Wayfinder: indoor routing powered by beacons - Onyx Beacon

WAYFINDERIndoor routing guided by Beacons

www.onyxbeacon.comWAYFINDER – Indoor Navigation guided by Beacons

Imagine that you are lost in a big hotel, looking for the sauna or for one of the

hundred conference rooms.

Think that you are trying to find a specific department or bureau in an

enormous office building.

Try to identify a friend’s private lounge in a gigantic stadium

where you are invited to watch the championship’s grand finale.

A GPS will be perfect, but this is not working indoors and is built especially

for car-related situations and conditions.


The Wayfinder solution is based on Beacons and their excellent capabilities and performances for micro-location,

presence detection and contextual communication.

The solution is based on the Points of Interest principle and offers step-by-step

indications for indoors navigation.

The users get an overview of the route and individual instructions on next steps

to reach their chosen destination. Route recalculations

are available when necessary.


The user has the building’scustomized Wayfinder application

installed on his mobile phone.

He opens the menu and chooses the desired destination

inside the facility, from a pre-defined list of points of interest.

User experience:

STEP ONE


The application identifies the nearest beacon in the user’s vicinity and

communicates the precise location to the cloud-based CMS.

When the application does not identify any beacon around, the user will

manually introduce his current position.

User experience:

STEP TWO


The cloud platform delivers to the mobile user a pre-defined

multimedia content (text message, images with building plans and

directional information, videos or customized URLs).

All this information is directly related to two coordinates: actual location

and desired destination.

User experience:

STEP THREE


The mobile user has now a list of the steps needed to follow, in order to reach

his destination.

He follows the path and, after changing his location, the message corresponding

to his current location will be highlighted.

Segment by segment, beacon by beacon, the entire route will be browsed

to the final point.

User experience:

STEP FOUR


If the user moves in a wrong direction, the mobile app will communicate his location to the cloud platform, a failure notification will be sent.

The route will be reconfigured and a completely new set of indications

will be provided.

User experience:

STEP FIVE


Strategic ideas for the application owner:Start by working on a map-based strategy.

Gather the complete plans of the building, and start by taking in consideration two main coordinates: the vertical (all the floors and the connections between floors – elevators and

stairs) and the horizontal (each floor should be an independent section).


Upload the plans of each floor of your building in the Onyx Beacon CMS and place Beacons on each floor, to precisely identify each Point of Interest in your building,

but also to cover all the traffic routes, in order to localize mobile users.


Each beacon will be assigned to a floor group (tag) and to a specific location on that floor. The distance between beacons is recommended to be of 25 to 40 meters,

but this is just a suggestion, if there are many points of interest on a specific area, the density of beacons could be higher.


After placing beacons on the map in the CMS, the administrator of the network of beacons will define connections between neighboring beacons,

introducing also a measured distance between each pair of beacons.

By unifying these paired connections, at the end a path will be defined, showing the precise direction a mobile user should follow in order to cross a specific area of the building.


After connecting all the beacons in coherent paths, the fleet administrator will define a specific notification to be sent out, for each beacon or for each group of beacons in a well-defined area of the building. These notifications can have various formats:

text, images or other multimedia guiding content.


The route calculation is an algorithm defined on the Onyx Beacon CMS, which aggregates all the existing information about beacons, connections, distances

and notifications, and delivers to the mobile user the shortest calculated route from the current position to the desired destination.

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