The heart of Kontakt.io indoor location solutions is the physical environment - the real-world spaces where Kontakt.io infrastructure devices are installed and tags are affixed to things or worn by people. Kontakt.io utilizes a mapped location topology that represents the spaces digitally that is set up and managed through Kio Cloud Smart Location. Essentially, Smart Location is a hierarchical representation of the physical layout of an environment, including the campuses and buildings, and floors with room-level locations mapped from digital floor plans. In this article, you'll learn about the Smart Location concepts and terminology to viewing real-time device information at the floor and room-level.
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Smart Location setup is one of the first deployment steps and is required to be completed before you begin to deploy and install your Kontakt.io devices.
During setup, you'll add each physical location - from the campuses, the campus buildings, and floors. For each floor, you'll then upload a digital floor plan and draw and map each room location within the floor.
When deploying and installing your Kontakt.io Infrastructure devices, including Portal Beams, Portal Lights, and Anchor Beacons, the devices are assigned to their room-level installation location and placed onto the floor plan to map their exact location.
Note
When a change is made to the placement of an Infrastructure device, such as relocating or removing a device, be sure to update its assigned install location from Smart Location.
If you're just learning about Smart Location, we do recommend becoming familiar with the following. Also, it's helpful to understand the Kontakt.io Location Engine Reference Architecture that provides insights into the power of rooms.
Smart Location represents both physical and virtual locations.
The physical locations represent your campuses and their buildings to the building floors with room-level locations mapped from digital floor plans.
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Location type |
Description |
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Campus |
A physical area that contains one to several buildings. The highest level in the location topology. |
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Building |
A standalone physical structure within a campus that can contain one to many floors. |
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Floor |
A specific level within a building, such as the first floor, second floor, and so on. A digital floor plan is required for each floor to map room-level locations and the installation location of Kontakt.io infrastructure devices. |
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Room |
A room is the basic building block and atomic unit for both location and occupancy data. For example in a healthcare facility, you may have patient rooms, exam rooms, nurse stations, clean rooms, to operating rooms. In an office building, you may have conference rooms, private offices to other types of collaboration and concentration spaces. When mapping a room within a floor, there are three room types.
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Seat |
A seat is a mapped room attribute that represents a seat within a room or virtual room being measured by a Portal Beam. A Portal Beam set to seat mode detects the occupancy of seats/workstations in a mapped room with seats. |
Virtual locations serve specific purposes based on your deployment and use case being achieved.
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Location type |
Description |
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Footfall |
A location where a Portal Beam is measuring people traffic. For example, a Portal Beam is installed at the entryway of cafeteria located on floor 1 to measure the people entering and exiting the cafeteria. The first step is to add a Footfall virtual location named Floor 1 Cafeteria and the second step is to assign the Portal Beam installed at the entryway to the Floor 1 Cafeteria footfall virtual location. This will result in achieving the real-time measurement of footfall specific to the Floor 1 Cafeteria. |
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Spaces |
A Space is a collection of rooms and/or seats to aggregate occupancy measurements. The aggratged data is obtain from the |
The left-side panel is where you can get a glimpse into your devices status, quickly navigate to each location, and manage your virtual footfall and space locations.
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From the Dashboard, view a location-level summary of your mapped Kontakt.io devices in one central location, along with key occupancy data.
From each floor, you can view the details and real-time location of your deployed Kontakt.io tags and infrastructure devices.
From each floor, you can get insights into the location and statistics of your deployed Kontakt.io devices. From the interactive floor plan, you can also get specific room-level data.
There are four key features within each floor that provide various types and levels of information.
Rooms
Footfall
Devices
Filters
Kio Cloud Smart Location displays the basic real-time data for your Kontakt.io devices. From the interactive floor plans, you can also dive deeper into the data both at the floor and room level.
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Element |
Description |
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Occupancy |
The count of occupancy in all rooms that have a Portal Beam set to measure room occupancy. |
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Gateways |
Provides the count of gateways assigned to the floor and the count of gateways in an Online and Offline status. Kio Cloud continuously monitors the connectivity and data received by Portal Lights, which sets the status of Portal Lights. Portal Light status is Online: indicates Kio Cloud has received data from the Portal Light in the past 60 seconds. Data is identified as any data received from either a tag or room sensor. Portal Light status is Offline: indicates that Kio Cloud has NOT received data for more than 60 consecutive seconds. The cause of the Offline status could be due to either one of the following: (1) a tag or room sensor is not within range of the Portal Light and no data has been received, (2) the Portal Light had failed to connect to its configured Wi-Fi network, or (3) the Portal Light could not establish is connection to Kio Cloud. |
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Rooms Beacons |
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Badges & Tags |
From the Filter menu, you can select the elements displayed on the visual floor plan map. The filter options available reflect the Kontakt.io devices within your Kio Cloud account.
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Filter option |
When selected, displays.. |
Device Model |
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Rooms |
Mapped rooms. |
Not applicable. |
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Gateways |
BLE to Wi-Fi infrastructure devices (Portal Lights; external Access Points) at their assigned room-level location. |
Kontakt.io Portal Lights External gateways: Cisco Access Points |
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Reference |
Anchor Beacons at their assigned room-level location. |
Anchor Beacon |
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Badges & Tags |
Last known room-level location of each Badge and Tag. |
Asset Tag, Smart Badge, Nano Tag |
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Occupancy |
The count of people by room-level for each Portal Beam set to room-occupancy mode. |
Portal Beam set to either room- or seat-level mode. |
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Beam IR |
Portal Beam set to IR mode |
From the interactive floor plan, you can also dive deeper into the data a the room-level.