The hybrid indoor navigation system is a synergistic combination of two technologies for locating users in closed rooms. It covers all three aspects characteristic of modern navigation systems, which are detection, location and adaptive routing of users.
The first fundamental component of the system is navigation using “beacon” devices, whose characteristic feature is a network of distributed, miniature radio transmitters interacting with the user’s mobile device. It provides location with an accuracy of up to one meter and exceptionally simple scalability, allowing easy adjustment to almost any building object. The emphasis on energy efficiency of the devices resulted in the battery operation of the device counted in years, while the transfer of location data is ensured by the use of Bluetooth LE. In this case, interaction with the system is provided by a mobile application, thanks to which users can orient themselves in space and then find points of interest. In this part of the system, the user does not maintain their anonymity.
Building prediction, optimization and management system
The centralized building management system is one of the most complex and complementary systems in our offer. It combines both elements responsible for detection and location inside the building and systems that couple the operation of individual building functions such as lighting, heating, ventilation or air conditioning.
Thanks to specially developed comfort controllers that can be adapted to most solutions offered on the market, it has become possible to combine the potential of machine learning algorithms in effective energy management of a building. Thanks to constant supervision over the environmental parameters prevailing inside (dedicated sensor platforms) and outside (access to information from weather stations), artificial intelligence is able to collect data on user preferences and then automatically adjust parameters to various scenarios. Additionally, each of the parameters covered by the operation can be changed manually in the user panel from the server application level.
Information obtained from the detection and location system not only provides navigation services, but also serves energy optimization by successively switching off electricity receivers. This process is carried out in building zones that are devoid of personnel for a specified period of time or are to be automatically deactivated outside working hours.
System functionalities
- Resource location
The technology allows for reading the position with high accuracy, and therefore finding resources. It allows for locating an employee or a dangerous object.
- Monitoring presence at a workstation
Defining zones allows for detecting monitored elements in them. Possibility to analyze the time spent at individual workstations
- Optimization of material flow
Analysis of material flow paths between subsequent stages, zones
- Measurement of environmental parameters
Monitoring the conditions in which a given object is present. E.g. temperature, humidity
System components
- Dedicated ultra-wideband tags
- Ultra-wideband signal receivers
- Computational intelligence algorithms
- Management and visualization system
A web application that allows you to view the current situation in the monitored facility. 24/7 live tracking.
- The separation of functional areas allows for easy expansion of the solution
- The ability to assign different visualization objects depending on the type of product being tracked
- Easy expansion with additional receivers allows you to monitor any area – from individual rooms to warehouses, from several to several hundred transmitters.
- Speed of operation – the solution uses the storage of the data structure in memory thanks to the Redis tool
- Database – historical data saved in the Microsoft SQL database
- Recognized programming languages - Python, C# and lightweight environments and frameworks for data visualization based on java script: node.js and three.js
The solution allows you to use 3D models of the building to visualize its parameters. From the graphic level, you can control integrated devices (lighting, air conditioning, heating, ventilation control).
Online energy consumption monitoring, clear division into rooms or individual devices. Detect sources of the highest energy consumption.
Easy creation of graphic dashboards, allowing you to monitor the most important parameters of the building, rooms, devices.
