Objective: The goal of this research project was to develop an indoor mapping system prototype for Rutgers University that would aid in indoor way-finding and facility asset management. By working with the Rutgers office of Institutional Planning & Operations (IPO) to collect campus floor plan information and with ESRI solutions engineers to experiment with their new ArcGIS indoors software, I was able to create a 'floor-aware' model of one of the campuses' buildings. The model supports turn-by-turn indoor navigation and has the capacity to store, manipulate, and analyze building information. This prototype displays the potential for indoor mapping to increase accessibility, safety, and planning efficiency across the university campus and beyond. 

Publication: ESRI has written a 'user success story' about this project to highlight an example of using their new indoor mapping technology to make a difference on a large scale. 

Software and tools used: AutoCAD to clean and organize floorplan drawings, ArcGIS Indoors extension to ArcGIS Pro to build indoor mapping system and model. 

Credit: Rutgers IPO, Michael Stepowyj (Rutgers), Professor Michael Siegel (Rutgers), Ridge Waddell (ESRI), Rich Simpson (ESRI), Dee Ann Chandler (ESRI), Rosemary Boone (ESRI)