Available for an ArcGIS organization licensed with the Indoors extension.
The following are common terms used in ArcGIS Indoors:
Area
Activity-based work environments can use areas, commonly known as hotels or hot desks, as a general space that can support numerous people without specific space assignments.
ArcGIS Indoors Information Model
The Indoors model consists of three feature datasets with a collection of feature classes that maintain information in support of floor-aware maps and apps.
Category
A category is a collection of similar features that contains more details than a category group. For example, the Places + Things category group may contain an office category, which includes a list of office spaces across various facilities in your organization.
Categories can be attached to a category group to create a hierarchy of similar features bundled together for a better exploring experience in Indoors apps. Categories can also exist outside of a group as stand-alone categories when they don't fit into a logical group.
Category group
A category group is a broad collection of similar categories that are useful to your organization. An example of a category group is Places + Things, which may include a catalog of categories for places and things that you want to explore on the map, such as conference rooms, offices, and restrooms. The Indoors map template includes three preconfigured category groups: Safety + Security, Retail + Services, and Places + Things.
Details
The Details feature class includes linear assets that partition spaces on an indoor map, such as walls, doors, or windows. Details are used to constrain generated network pathways and to support visualization.
Event
Events are used to support search and explore capabilities, routing, and identification of landmarks in routing. The Events feature class can include indoor and outdoor information.
Facility
A facility refers to a building and can contain many levels, units, and details.
Floor-aware map
The term floor aware applies to maps and scenes that contain indoor GIS data representing floor plan features and organized hierarchically such that details features are associated to a floor, and floors are associated to a facility. ArcGIS Pro and other apps and APIs that support floor-aware maps and scenes can use these hierarchical associations to enable intuitive visualization and analysis of indoor data.
Landmark
Landmarks are features used when creating directions to provide callouts for an enhanced routing experience. Landmarks are typically generated from existing category features that are used to generate the pathways.
Level
A level refers to the floor of a building contained in your managed facilities.
Indoor network
The indoor network is a routable network composed of pathways generated and curated using tools in the Indoors Network toolset.
Info panel
A panel appears when you click a configured category feature or landmark on a map in the Viewer app. This info panel contains details about the feature—such as its name, description, or address—as well as links to share a location using a link or QR code or to optionally add a work order or log an issue. In Indoors for iOS and Indoors for Android, this panel is called an info card.
Occupant
An occupant is a person who uses indoor spaces. Occupants are commonly employees, tenants, or visitors. You can load occupant data from external sources.
Pathway
A pathway is a potential route in the indoor network. Pathways are lattice based and are generated using tools in the Indoors Network toolset.
Section
Also referred to as wings, sections represent a collection of spaces that include a logical subdivision of a level. Unlike zones, spaces typically belong to only one section, for example, the west wing.
Note:
This feature class is not created as part of the indoor dataset when you use the Create Indoor Dataset tool.
Site
A site is the largest space designation in the Indoors model and can contain multiple facilities.
Space
Space is a generic term referring to areas and volumes in a building. In Indoors, the space with the smallest area is a unit, and the space with the largest area is a site.
Tracking zone
Tracking zones are geofenced spaces where device tracking should be available. Devices located in a tracking zone are tracked if configured in your environment.
Transition
Network transitions refer to possible routes between levels, such as stairways or elevators. Transitions are generated using the Generate Floor Transitions tool.
Unit
Units are the usable spaces in a building, which often have equipment, occupants, schedules, or other assets associated with them. Units are nonoverlapping individual functional areas such as workspaces, amenities, retail spaces, elevators, and so on.
Zone
Zones refer to areas of organization in a level, such as security, functional, managerial, retail, and so on. Zones are used for visualization in mapmaking and can overlap.
Note:
This feature class is not created as part of the indoor dataset when you use the Create Indoor Dataset tool.