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Indoor GIS at the 2022 Esri User Conference

By Silvia Pichler

The 2022 Esri User Conference will be held as an in-person event in San Diego, California. Join us there from July 11-15 to be part of the biggest GIS event of the year! Connect with thousands of other GIS enthusiasts, get insights into the latest and greatest GIS has to offer, and take advantage of the vast offer of sessions to learn all about hot topics such as indoor GIS. This blogpost gives you an overview over all sessions related to indoor GIS, including ArcGIS Indoors and ArcGIS IPS.

 

Agenda

Showcase

Visit us at our booths for ArcGIS Indoors and ArcGIS IPS in the ArcGIS Apps Showcase area. Talk to our experts, get a demo and learn  more about the products.

indoor gis at 2022 uc showcase map

Showcase hours

Tue, July 12: 09:00 a.m. — 06:00 p.m.
Wed, July 13: 09:00 a.m. — 06:00 p.m.
Thu, July 14: 09:00 a.m. — 04:00 p.m.

Sessions

Sunday, July 10

ArcGIS Indoors, bringing your GIS indoors

ArcGIS Indoors: Bringing Your GIS Indoors

Sunday, July 10, 8:30 a.m. — 5:00 p.m.

SDCC – Room 29 C

PRECONFERENCE SEMINAR

REQUIRES SEPARATE REGISTRATION | Learn how to leverage ArcGIS Indoors to build an indoor GIS in support of space management, asset mapping, workspace reservation, indoor navigation, and more. In this session we will show you how to load CAD and BIM floor plans in the geodatabase, as well as authoring and sharing floor aware maps and 3D scenes that can be used to power space planning and providing a web and native mobile experience for indoor navigation, workspace reservation, building incident reporting, and more. Bring your laptop and get ready to learn!

Beau RyckMoritz WalzerBernd GruberJinho KangBernd RuprechterWilliam Isley

Tuesday, July 12

ArcGIS Indoors: An Introduction

Tuesday, July 12, 8:30 a.m. — 9:30 a.m.

SDCC – Room 31 BC

TECHNICAL WORKSHOP

HYBRID SESSION on July 13 | In this session, learn how to transform CAD and BIM floor plans into an information model in the geodatabase for authoring and sharing floor aware maps of your building interiors. Also learn how to leverage these indoor maps to power Indoors apps for space planning and offering employees, building occupants, and visitors a web and mobile experience for way-finding, workspace reservation, location sharing, building incident reporting, and more.

Marco ViolaMohd Faraz SiddiquiWilliam Isley

ArcGIS IPS Introduction and road ahead

ArcGIS IPS: An Introduction and the Road Ahead

Tuesday, July 12, 10:00 a.m. — 11:00 a.m.

SDCC – Room 30 C

TECHNICAL WORKSHOP

In this session you will learn about ArcGIS IPS, an indoor positioning system that enables you to locate yourself and others inside a building or facility in real time. The session will include a product overview, technology background, use-cases, trends and roadmap.

Bernd GruberBernd Ruprechter

Wednesday, July 13

ArcGIS Indoors: An Introduction

Wednesday, July 13, 10:00 a.m. — 11:00 a.m.

SDCC – Room 02

TECHNICAL WORKSHOP

HYBRID SESSION on July 13 | In this session, learn how to transform CAD and BIM floor plans into an information model in the geodatabase for authoring and sharing floor aware maps of your building interiors. Also learn how to leverage these indoor maps to power Indoors apps for space planning and offering employees, building occupants, and visitors a web and mobile experience for way-finding, workspace reservation, location sharing, building incident reporting, and more.

Marco ViolaMohd Faraz SiddiquiWilliam Isley

ArcGIS IPS- Understanding the technology

ArcGIS IPS: Understanding the Technology

Wednesday, July 13, 11:15 a.m. — 12:00 p.m.

SDCC – Expo Demo Theater 03

DEMO THEATER PRESENTATION

ArcGIS IPS is Esri’s new indoor positioning product. In this session you will learn about the Indoor Positioning Technology which is powering ArcGIS IPS. We will help you to understand how the underlying technology works, how to best setup Indoor Positioning and which factors improve your Indoor Positioning quality.

Boxian DongBernd Gruber

Indoor GIS SIG

Indoor GIS SIG

Wednesday, July 13, 11:30 a.m. — 12:30 p.m.

SDCC – Room 32 AB

SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP MEETING

There is a vast, uncharted geography in which we spend most our lives. The United Nations projects this extraordinary geography to grow in area by the size of Japan each year until 2060. That geography is indoors. Indoor geography that has long eluded the masses GIS users, explored only by those brave enough to blaze their own path and forge their own tools. Now, the Indoor GIS Special Interest Group is formed to engage in critical discussions that advance the technology supporting these endeavors, cultivate the practice of indoor GIS, and share ideas to develop community among practitioners.

 

ArcGIS Field Maps: Indoor Workflows

Wednesday, July 13, 12:15 p.m. — 1:00 p.m.

SDCC – Expo Demo Theater 11

DEMO THEATER PRESENTATION

ArcGIS Field Maps now supports indoor workflows. Fieldwork is mobile work and it takes place both outside and indoors. Join this session to learn about how ArcGIS Field Maps is expanding our capabilities to broaden fieldwork support, even indoors.

Gaurav JobanputraBrent Pierce

 

ArcGIS Indoors: Developing Indoor Mapping Apps

Wednesday, July 13, 12:15 p.m. — 1:00 p.m.

SDCC – Expo Demo Theater 07

DEMO THEATER PRESENTATION

Join us in this demo theater to learn how to building indoor mapping apps that can leverage floor aware maps for building interiors. We will show you how to use the floor filter and program against the floor aware APIs in the ArcGIS API for JavaScript and ArcGIS Runtime.

Mohd Faraz SiddiquiTom Hill

 

ArcGIS Indoors: Creating and Maintaining an Indoor GIS

Wednesday, July 13, 1:00 p.m. — 2:00 p.m.

SDCC – Room 15 B

TECHNICAL WORKSHOP

Take building floor plans from CAD and BIM and transform them into a geodatabase information model of your buildings interior to create and share 2D and 3D indoor maps. Leverage indoor maps within Indoors for providing occupants and visitors solutions for way-finding, workspace reservation, space planning, and more. Learn how to leverage your indoor maps with ArcGIS for field data collection, dash-boarding, and more. Also learn best practices for the update data lifecycle between CAD/BIM and your Indoor GIS modeled in the geodatabase.

Sophie FrankJinho Kang

ArcGIS Indoors: Integrating with Facility Management Systems

Wednesday, July 13, 2:30 p.m. — 3:30 p.m.

SDCC – Room 15 B

TECHNICAL WORKSHOP

In this session we will cover ArcGIS Indoors interoperability with facility management systems. Learn how to augment your existing CMMS, IWMS, RTLS, or BAS with indoor maps and apps to support asset inventory and inspection, workspace reservation, building incident reporting, real-time person and asset tracking, spatial dash-boarding, location sharing, way finding, and more.

Tom HahkaMorakot PiloukEthan Franklin

Thursday, July 14

ArcGIS Indoors: Managing the Hybrid Workplace

Thursday, July 14, 8:30 a.m. — 9:30 a.m.

SDCC – Room 09

TECHNICAL WORKSHOP

The hybrid workplace enables the reopening of facilities through better workplace experiences, easier trips on-site, and faster internal services. In this session, attendees can discover more about ArcGIS Indoors applications for work space reservation, indoor navigation, and incident management. Please join our session to learn more about ArcGIS Indoors for hybrid workplaces.

Gaurav JobanputraBeau Ryck

ArcGIS IPS: An Introduction and the Road Ahead

ArcGIS IPS: An Introduction and the Road Ahead

Thursday, July 14, 10:00 a.m. — 11:00 a.m.

SDCC – Room 30 C

TECHNICAL WORKSHOP

In this session you will learn about ArcGIS IPS, an indoor positioning system that enables you to locate yourself and others inside a building or facility in real time. The session will include a product overview, technology background, use-cases, trends and roadmap.

Bernd GruberBernd Ruprechter

Configuring indoor positioning for arcgis indoors

Configuring Indoor Positioning for ArcGIS Indoors

Thursday, July 14, 11:15 a.m. — 12:00 p.m.

SDCC – Expo Demo Theater 07

DEMO THEATER PRESENTATION

In this session, learn how to setup and configure indoor positioning, using ArcGIS IPS,  to provide a blue dot indoor location for users within ArcGIS Indoors.

Gaurav JobanputraDejan Parac

 

ArcGIS Field Maps: Indoor Workflows

Thursday, July 14, 12:15 p.m. — 1:00 p.m.

SDCC – Featured Expo Demo Theater

DEMO THEATER PRESENTATION

ArcGIS Field Maps now supports indoor workflows. Fieldwork is mobile work and it takes place both outside and indoors. Join this session to learn about how ArcGIS Field Maps is expanding our capabilities to broaden fieldwork support, even indoors.

Gaurav JobanputraBrent Pierce

ArcGIS Runtime - building an indoor positioning app

ArcGIS Runtime: Building an Indoor Positioning App

Thursday, July 14, 1:15 p.m. — 2:00 p.m.

SDCC – Expo Demo Theater 07

DEMO THEATER PRESENTATION

This presentation will demonstrate how to integrate ArcGIS Runtime in your app so that you can utilize and benefit from the position provided by ArcGIS IPS in your own applications.

Bernd GruberBernd Ruprechter

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