Outdoor to Indoor Wayfinding¶

Overview¶

Outdoor to Indoor Wayfinding feature provides the route and wayfinding directions to a custom point or to a POI indoors while the user is outdoors on the site. It will direct the user to the nearest entrance of the building via the outermost point in the wayfinding network closest to the user’s location. The user would need to join this initial point from his/her initial location to get into the route created via the wayfinding network.

Parameters Required for Outdoor to Indoor Wayfinding¶

This feature requires pathManagerConfiguration_outdoorLevelIndex parameter configuration to be added via PC Dashboard which indicates the level for which a building is connected to outdoors (i.e. 0 for Ground level).

It can be set either at site scope or per building scope. If set at site scope, it will apply to all the buildings on the site.

Limitations of Outdoor to Indoor Wayfinding¶

Currently, outdoor to indoor wayfinding works only on Pointr Mobile SDKs. For the feature to work properly, the following is a list of limitations / requirements that must be met:

• Building outline must match the outline of the level (specified in pathManagerConfiguration_outdoorLevelIndex) that’s connected to outdoors.
• Custom points are always considered indoors. Note that Pois will work fine and API will also work fine when level is specified or not-specified.
• When navigating to a POI on another building, if that POI is very close to the transition between the two buildings, it is expected for the arrival message to be triggered late. This is due to the behaviour of the positioning engine, as it may take a while before the engine successfully detects the building switch, which is a prerequisite for arrival.