Setting up an indoor navigation system requires a blend of technical knowledge and practical skills. Here’s a detailed look at the expertise needed:
To successfully set up an indoor navigation system, you need a combination of technical and practical skills. First, a solid understanding of networking and wireless communication technologies like Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and Wi-Fi is essential. This knowledge helps in deploying and configuring beacons or tags that are crucial for the system. Familiarity with software development kits (SDKs) and application programming interfaces (APIs) is also important, as these tools are used to integrate the navigation system with mobile applications.
Additionally, expertise in geolocation and mapping technologies is necessary to accurately determine and display indoor positions. This includes understanding how to calibrate and optimize the system for different environments, such as shopping malls, airports, or warehouses. Practical experience in project management and system integration is beneficial to coordinate the various components and ensure a seamless setup.
Overall, while a basic setup might be manageable for someone with general IT skills, a more complex installation typically requires specialized knowledge in wireless communication, software integration, and geolocation technologies. This ensures the system is both accurate and reliable, providing a smooth navigation experience for users.
Hi Kate! Thank you for the question. The calibration is an important process for ensuring the accuracy and stability of your indoor navigation system across various environments. The process varies based on the specific technology (Wi-Fi, BLE, UWB, etc.) and the environment (hospitals, retail, warehouses).
Generally, the calibration process includes a site survey to map out the environment, including walls, obstacles and areas of potential signal interference. Then we need to record a database of logs for R&D team to understand the existing challenges and tune the positioning algorithms based on collected data to improve accuracy.
The level of expertise shouldn’t be an indicator or reference. From another perspective, how easy is mount and calibrate the Navigine environment? And what we can do for make this easiest to the stakeholders or IT team. Mostly the main reason for avoiding use this technology is the perception about the company needs hire a crew for develop, deploy and maintenance this. Now exist a big market of small and medium business managing assets people and resources, i guess that should be the main objective of solutions like Navigine.
Hi Cesar! Thank you for the comment. Indeed, the level of expertise is not always an indicator of reference.
Nevertheless, Navigine can assure that we provide comprehensive onboarding and remote support during the deployment stage, ensuring that your team feels confident and equipped to manage the system. Moreover, Navigine system is easy to maintain and would not require a crew to support after deployment. Any changes and updates can be performed in our CMS system by any team member who has access to the Navigine stack.
Kyuder thanks for your answer, i had the opportunity to work with several industries small business, exists a big demand related to a location based systems, over all with the grown of small business after covid 19.From my perspective Navigine solve the main bottleneck in this type of solutions: The map. I have some doubts about the precisition, having 3 IOT gateways in small area(800 sq feet). what kind of precistion could i get?
Totally agree that currently there is a growing demand to location-based solutions from small businesses as well. The precision can be achieved by using different technologies (BLE, UWB, Wi-Fi etc.), and the level of accuracy may vary depending on the technology used. We at Navigine can integrated any technology or any IoT hardware and customize it to boost the precision.
Could you please elaborate which IoT gateways you are using? It may help us to answer your question.
Now i have 3 Minew G1s and several tags, but in small dimensions ( less tha 100m2) is very hard have precision the tags are not in the location showed by navigine. Your team told me the solution is related mostly to the Zone areas and not necessarily rtls. I understand the better precision its provided by AOA. For that reason, my question. If i’m not working with AOA, what is my better range of precision? I could understand and manage this trying to focus to other way. But the clients do not understand this,if they pay for dozens of tags for their crew in the manufacturing area. They claim a real time location. My best option is adding more G1s or clear them the range offered. Thanks
