Indoor Wayfinding

Introduction

A wayfinding system inside your building consists of fixed directional signage; arrows throughout the building, a directory on the wall at the entrance, maybe even colored lines on the floor indicating directions to a certain department.

State College, April 3rd, 2012

“Round Trip”

Wayfinding has been the domain of traditional static wayfinding signage since the beginning of times. “Has been”, as in the last decade, digital wayfinding for outdoor environments initiated a very successful new way of...

Here is why:

Components of Electronic Wayfinding System

Front-End Application

This is the runtime version of the wayfinding system’s GUI (Graphical User Interface) that resides on the Kiosk or Webpage. It looks sharp, well-designe...

One of the perks of a digital wayfinding system is that it can be updated down-the-road to keep the digital situation in-sync with the real world situation. This perk also happens to be the biggest advantage of digital wayfinding over static wayfinding (fixed signs).

And one step up….

Interactive Indoor Wayfinding Systems

This should probably be one of the first articles you need to read, if you are faced with the challenge to provide an interactive wayfinding system for your building or campus, to improve the experience of ‘getting around’.

Graphical-Driven Wayfinding System: pulls up, on-request, pre-made maps with directions. This ‘cutting-corners’ technique is mostly used by developers who do not have the knowledge of ‘computing directions’ based on fastest, easiest, preferred, emergency,closed off, one-way or two-way and accessibl...

The large venture companies that provide us outdoor route generators haven’t bothered themselves with Indoor Wayfinding Systems just yet.

“Why is that?”, you ask.

Electronic or Digital Wayfinding Systems generate directions upon request (interactive) through a Kiosk, LCD Touchscreen, an Internet Webpage or Mobile Device.

To get a good idea of where we are heading with indoor interactive wayfinding, it is a good to look at where we are now with the existing...

Whats up with the growing interest in Indoor Interactive Wayfinding?

The demand was always there.

Older buildings were built with practicality and functionality in mind. Static wayfinding signs help to get around, but can’t solve the problem completely, but it was all there was. Now those compan...