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Introduction to Smart Location

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Kio Cloud Smart Location represents your organization’s physical locations - from your campuses and their buildings to the building floors and rooms and spaces. Setup and management of your Smart Location is required to ensure location, occupancy, and tracking accuracy.

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About setup

The setup of your Smart Location is one of the first deployment steps and is required to be completed before you begin to install your Kontakt.io devices.

During setup, you'll add a campus, each campus building, and the floors for each building. For each floor, you'll then upload a floor plan and draw each room located on the floor. A room

Stationary infrastructure devices, including Portal Lights, Portal Beams, and Reference Beacons (Anchor Beacons) are assigned to their room location and placed at their exact room location from the visual floorplan.

Note

When a change is made to your deployment, such as moving or removing a Kontakt.io stationary device, be sure to update your Kio Cloud Smart Location. It's critical that your Smart Location mirrors your Kontakt.io infrastructure.

Key concepts and definitions

Concept

Definition

Floor Plan

A visual representation of a building floor. During setup, a floor plan image file is uploaded for each building floor.

The information available from a floor plan includes:

  • The assigned location of stationary infrastructure devices, including Portal Beams, Portal Lights, and Anchor Beacons. During setup, these devices are assigned to their exact room install location and placed at their install location from the floor plan.

  • The real-time location of tags and badges.

  • The real-time occupancy measurements of Portal Beams.

Room

The basic building block for both location and occupancy data. It's the most granular location level reported.

There are several types of room types:

  • Room: identifies an enclosed room with interior walls.

  • Virtual Room: identifies an open space without enclosed walls. Commonly used for open-concept office spaces or large areas.

  • Corridor: a walkway or hallway within the floor.

Seats

For use with Portal Beams that are set to Seat mode that detect the occupancy of seats/workstations in a defined room. A single room can have up to six seats.

Space

A collection of rooms. Spaces can be used in several different ways.

  • Required for use with Traffic Portal Beams to group both inbound and outbound spaces.

  • To represent a part of a floor or physical area that contains rooms of varying characteristics but are a meaningful grouping from an organizational perspective. For example, a specific department.

  • To group rooms that are similar in their usage characteristics to aggregate data for visualization purposes. For example, all large meeting rooms on floors 5 through 8.

Devices

Represents Kontakt.io devices that are deployed and make up the system infrastructure.

Devices located on a floor are grouped by the product model.

Gateways

Kontakt.io Portal Light

Bluetooth® LE enabled gateways that receive beacon data and send and download data from Kio Cloud over the facility's local WiFi network.

Reference Beacons

Kontakt.io Anchor Beacon 2

A stationary beacon for room-level location tracking to wayfinding solutions.

Tags & Badges

Kontakt.io Asset Tag 2, Smart Badge

Tags are commonly attached to moving or stationary objects.

Badges are commonly worn by people.

Smart Location real-time data

Kio Cloud Smart Location displays the basic real-time Kontakt.io device data. From the interactive floor plans, you can also dive deeper into the data at both the floor and room levels.

The image below provides an example of floor-level data. Learn more about real-time data.

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