Setting up Kio Cloud Smart Location is required to begin your journey with Kontakt.io tracking, location, and occupancy solutions. Smart Location represents the physical indoor environment where your IoT Infrastructure devices are installed and the locations of your Kontakt.io IoT Tags. Smart Location setup includes your campuses and their buildings, and the building floors with digital floor plans with mapped room-level locations 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, when you have facility locations in multiple cities, you'll create a campus for each 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.
Quick demo of adding a campus and building.
If you have more than one campus, complete this step for each campus.
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From the Launchpad, select Smart Location > select + ADD CAMPUS.
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Enter the below campus information > when complete, select ADD.
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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)
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A building is located within a campus. You may have one or multiple buildings within a single campus. Complete this step for each building.
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Select + ADD BUILDING.
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Enter the following building information > when complete, select Add.
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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)
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After your buildings are added, you are now ready to add the building floors.
During this step, you'll first add a floor to a building that requires uploading a digital floor plan.
Important
Be sure that you have a floor plan image file, sometimes called an indoor map, for each building floor.
JPG, PNG, BMP, and TIFF files are supported. The file size cannot be larger than 800 kB.
Quick demo of adding a floor and its floor plan.
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Go to the Building you are adding a floor to > select + ADD FLOOR.
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Enter the following floor information. When complete, select Add Floor.
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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 Browse to upload the floor plan file
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You'll now set the floor plan 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 Configure Floor.
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From the Reference Points tab > select Set points.
Important
The longer the distance between the two reference points will result in a more accurate scale of the floor. It's recommended to set the two reference points using the entire floor length. Optionally, you can choose two reference points that are located on opposite walls and with a minimum distance of 5 feet (1.5 meters). This distance between the two reference points can be provided in feet or meters.
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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Next, you will draw 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. A blue line appears around the floor outline.
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From the Floor Plan, verify that the calculated floor width and length measurements are accurate. This is calculated by the reference point measurement provided and the floor outline.
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When complete, from the upper-right corner select SAVE AND CONTINUE.
You can now draw and the floor's rooms.
Quick demo of adding a room.
Below are the general instructions for adding rooms.
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From Smart Location, go to the floor where the Portal Beam will be installed > from the upper-right corner, select CONFIGURE FLOOR.
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From the Room Outlines, select the type of room being added.
Room: an actual room with four interior walls (office, patient room, conference room).
Virtual Room: an open space or area with no walls. A workspace with sofas or other collaboration-type space or a workstation area with multiple seats or desks being measured by a Portal Beam.
CORRIDOR: area that is a corridor within the floor; may also be referred to as a hallway or walkway.
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Select a drawing tool
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> from the floor plan, place your mouse at the left upper-side of the room location > left click to begin drawing the room.
To scale the floor plan area displayed, select the + or - options. To move the floor plan, hold down your left mouse button until the hand icon appears.
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Enter a Name: uniquely identifies the room.
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Room Number: numerical value unique to the room; duplicates are not allowed and cannot be greater than 4095.
The system automatically assigns the next numerical sequence as more rooms are added. You can allow the system to assign unique room numbers or set your own.
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Select SAVE.
Repeat the above steps for each room location.
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When all rooms are added, select RETURN TO PREVIEW.
When all rooms are added, you can begin to install your Kontakt.io devices.
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 floor plan.