ArcGIS Indoors

5 Steps to Build a Facilities Space Planning Dashboard using ArcGIS

5 Steps to Build a Facilities Space Planning Dashboard using ArcGIS

Space planning and management is an important part of any college campus or school district. It helps facility managers ensure that they are optimizing the utilization of their space.

Often, facility spaces become underutilized as we move towards a remote hybrid environment. This can create an optimization problem as these unused areas still require costs such as heating and cooling, IT equipment, and general facility maintenance. Many space planning and maintenance personnel are wrestling with how to best address this issue and still provide optimized space usage across campus.

Using GIS for Campus Facilities: Organizing Digital Floorplans and As-Built Drawings

Using GIS for Campus Facilities: Organizing Digital Floorplans and As-Built Drawings

When setting out to use GIS for Campus or Facility management, it is important to understand what type of data tracking challenges are currently present in your organization. This gets increasingly important to determine as organizations grow larger, start to create more data, and compile more historic records. These challenges typically revolve around the subject of modern-day data storage, but include the following:

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Digitizing Floor Plans for Indoor Data Space Management

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Digitizing Floor Plans for Indoor Data Space Management

pace is expensive. Due to this simple truth, it is important to ensure the accurate digitizing of features and space inside your facilities. As more features get digitized within a designated facility, the inaccuracies will compound when it comes time to calculate the total ‘Gross Area’ and ‘Net Area’ of the building. These two area measurements are used when trying to optimize time, work and money spent on the building. At the very least, space costs about $10 for every square foot.

Keeping Up With ArcGIS Indoors

Keeping Up With ArcGIS Indoors

The easiest description of Indoor GIS is that it is used in the same way as regular GIS, just incorporating Indoor capabilities like floor levels and unit-floor-building relations. The Package of ArcGIS Indoors is actually a collection of three applications, including a mobile app and two web-apps, being the Indoor Viewer and the Indoor Space Planner.

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Creating, Testing, and Publishing Route Networks for ArcGIS Indoors

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Creating, Testing, and Publishing Route Networks for ArcGIS Indoors

When compared to traditional campus and facility management through CAD layers and multiple spreadsheets, ArcGIS Indoors offers a much more streamlined approach. Managing indoor assets through ArcGIS Indoors allows for improved facility maintenance, building operations, and indoor analysis across an entire campus thanks to ESRI’s ArcGIS Indoors Information Model (AIIM).

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From 10,000 feet to 1 inch: Bringing GIS indoors

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From 10,000 feet to 1 inch: Bringing GIS indoors

ArcGIS Indoors is a map-based software application that enables property owners to manage all of their facilities across an entire campus in one, centralized, location. With Esri’s latest release of ArcGIS Indoors, their flagship mapping platform now offers a new solution to deliver improved strategic planning, facility operations, and workplace productivity not to mention a host of other benefits. Property managers and facility operations personnel looking for an interactive map-based solution to manage their campus and building data can take advantage of this technology to track and maintain information such as status, condition, inspection history, and asset information for all of their facilities.