Indoor mapping and AR navigation for educational institute

In this application, we propose a vision-based location positioning system using augmented reality technologies for indoor navigation. Indoor Navigation means the flexible guidance of people in confusing, unknown buildings and building complexes. The user of an indoor navigation system gets his own

Project Title

Indoor mapping and AR navigation for educational institute

Project Area of Specialization

Augmented and Virtual Reality

Project Summary

In this application, we propose a vision-based location positioning system using augmented reality technologies for indoor navigation. Indoor Navigation means the flexible guidance of people in confusing, unknown buildings and building complexes. The user of an indoor navigation system gets his own location displayed on a map on his own smart device. The user’s position in and around the building is permanently updated by indoor positioning, so that the device always shows the current position on the route. Because the position is calculated on the user’s device. Applications that implement Augmented Reality are able to improve the user experience through their numerous current applications and the potential they offer for the future. These systems can significantly improve many areas of our lives. The goal is to make indoor navigation and pathfinding as comfortable as possible to user that the user doesn’t have to rely on anyone else except his cellphone. The lack of GPS support in an indoor environments has always made this a challenge. But with augmented reality, it is possible to solve this problem. Well, this technology is greatly helpful for businesses as they can put this service to good use. Indoor positioning & navigation apps can be used by them to map out large buildings, such as malls, railways, airports, for visitors. So offices, malls, hospitals, airports, warehouses, university campuses, all of these building cover a lot of areas, and thus it becomes challenging for visitors to find their way quickly.

Project Objectives

1. The main purpose of this application is to make wayfinding in the indoor buildings as easy as possible for a user.
2.  To save time of a user by suggesting them the shortest possible path to their desired destination.
3. To make the exploration of complex buildings as trouble free as possible for a user.
4. On the machine side, the important goal is to achieve accurate localization.
5. To provide an easy to use UI to which user can interact and operate the application very easily

Project Implementation Method

In this Android application, indoor navigation will be done achieving the following tasks:

1. The login/registration will be implemented through Node.js, C# and Microsoft SQL Server, or JS and No SQL and Node.js will be used to create REST API which will be used to integrate database in our application, My SQL / Firebase will be our database and C# / JS will be used to integrate the REST API in our application.
2. QR codes will be placed in the indoor facility, by scanning these QR codes the user’s position can be pinpoint.
3. Then the user will select their destination by choosing the target places in application’s UI (target places consist of images that will be recognized through computer vision AR core SDKs).
4. Then the path towards the destination will be displayed on the screen by ARCore camera, the application will also have 2D map in which visual markers (target places) are placed, the visual markers will be stored in Vuforia cloud.
5. The 2D maps will be created by modeling the entire architecture of indoor facility.

Benefits of the Project

AR-based indoor navigation is capable of overcoming many of the weaknesses that the other solutions are struggling with.

Following are some of the benefits of AR indoor navigation:

• In commercial buildings it can make the wayfinding to a certain office absolutely trouble free and simple for a user.
• A user can save time by following the shortest route to a certain destination which is being calculated by the application.
• With this application a user can explore most of the things inside a building without having to physically interact with anyone.

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

In this Android application, indoor navigation will be done by fetching the user’s position through QR code and the user will select their destination by choosing target places in application’s UI (target places consist of images that will be recognized through computer vision AR core SDKs / Vero React ), the path will be displayed on mobile screen by AR core / Vero React camera, moreover the application will have 2D map in which visual markers (target places) are placed, the visual markers will be stored in Vuforia cloud. Each user will have their own account to log in to the application, the data will be saved in My SQL database / No SQL database which will be connected to application through REST API. We will use unity 3D with C# / JS and ARCore / Vero React to create 3D visualization and AR navigation and for the REST API we will use Node.js which will be connected through C# / JS in our application for the login and registration.

Final Deliverable of the Project

Software System

Core Industry

Education

Other Industries

Core Technology

Augmented & Virtual Reality

Other Technologies

Sustainable Development Goals

Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Required Resources

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