Setting up your Smart Location is required to begin your journey with Kio Cloud location and occupancy solutions. Your Kio Cloud Smart Location represents your organization’s facilities - from your campuses and their buildings to the building floors and rooms and spaces.
Be sure to set up Smart Location in the following order
A campus is a collection of buildings. Many organizations are different - you may have just one or many campuses. For example, your organization may have facilities located in different cities, you'll then create a campus for each geographic location. Or maybe you have multiple buildings that are unique to their business services, you may then choose to have a campus for each business service location.
Regardless of your organization's facility structure, deploying a Kontakt.io solution requires a single campus with a minimum of one building.
If you have more than one campus, complete this step for each campus.
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From your Kio Cloud Launchpad, select Smart Location.
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From the upper-right corner, select ADD CAMPUS.
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Enter the below campus information > when complete, select Save.
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Address: where the campus is located
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Name: unique name of the campus
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Description: for information purposes only
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Campus image: (optional) click + to upload a file
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A building is located within a campus and you may have one or multiple buildings in a single campus. Complete this step for each campus building.
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Select ADD BUILDING.
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Enter the following building information > when complete, select Save.
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Address: where the building is located (by default set to the campus address)
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Name: unique name of the building
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Description: for information purposes only
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Building image (optional): click + to upload a file
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After buildings are added, you are now ready to add the building floors.
Complete the following steps for each floor in a building.
Important
A floor plan image file (sometimes called an indoor map) is required for each building floor.
JPG, PNG, BMP, and TIFF files are supported. The file size cannot be larger than 800 kB.
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Go to the Building, select ADD FLOOR or add first floor here.
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Enter the following floor information.
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Level: what building level the floor is located on
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Name: unique name of the floor
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Floor Plan: select + to upload the floor plan file
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You’ll now set the floor plan's one-time Reference Point and Floor Outline. This ensures the floor plan is scaled correctly.
Important
Once saved, the following settings cannot be changed.
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From the list of floors, select the floor you created in the previous step.
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Select Start Floor Configuration.
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Select SET POINTS.
Set POINT A by clicking on the first reference point on the floor plan (purple X appears) > set POINT B by clicking on the second reference point > enter the distance between the two reference points > select NEXT.
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Set the Floor Outline: select DRAW FLOOR OUTLINE.
Select either the rectangle or polygon tool > hold down your mouse pointer over the start point and release > then drag the points to outline the floor plan (green line appears around the floor outline).
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From the Floor Plan, verify the system calculated floor width and length measurements are accurate.
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When complete, from the upper-right corner select SAVE AND CONTINUE.
After you've added all the floors, you can now add the rooms located on each floor.
Below are the general instructions to set up the rooms in a Smart Location floor.
Note
When deploying Portal Beams, how rooms are setup varies by the Portal Beam mode.
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From Room outlines > select the type of room you're adding.
Room: select if the room location has four interior walls.
Virtual Room: select if the location is an open area with no walls. May also be referred to as an open space.
Corridor: select if the location is a corridor. May also be referred to as a hallway.
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Enter a Name: uniquely identifies the room or corridor.
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Room Number: unique numerical value to identify the room, virtual room, or corridor. Essential for room-level location accuracy and tracking.
Portal Beam with IR enabled: Location & Occupancy API property:
roomNumberand Device Management API property:irRoomNumberReference Beacon (Anchor Beacon):
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Select a drawing tool > from the floor plan, draw the room > select SAVE.
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When all rooms are added, select FINISH CONFIGURATION.
When all rooms are setup, you can begin to install your Kontakt.io devices.
Stationary infrastructure devices, including Portal Lights, Portal Beams, and Reference Beacons (Anchor Beacons) are required to be assigned their exact install location within your Smart Location. Please refer to the deployment details for each of these models for detailed instructions.