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Set up and manage Smart Location

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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:

  1. Campus and building setup

  2. Floor and floor plan setup

  3. Add rooms

Campus and building setup

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.

Add a campus

If you have more than one campus, complete this step for each campus.

  1. From your Kio Cloud Launchpad, select Smart Location.

  2. From the upper-right corner, select ADD CAMPUS.

  3. Enter the below campus information > when complete, select Save.

    • Address: where the campus is located

    • Name: unique name of the campus

    • Description: for information purposes only

    • Campus image: (optional) click + to upload a file

Add a building

A building is located in a campus and you may have one or multiple buildings in a single campus. Complete this step for each campus building.

  1. Select ADD BUILDING.

  2. Enter the following building information > when complete, select Save.

    • Address: where the building is located (by default set to the campus address)

    • Name: unique name of the building

    • Description: for information purposes only

    • Building image (optional): click + to upload a file

After buildings are added, you are now ready to add the building floors.

Floor and floor plan setup

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.

Add and configure a floor

  1. Go to the Building, select ADD FLOOR or add first floor here.

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  2. Enter the following floor information.

    • Level: what building level the floor is located on

    • Name: unique name of the floor

    • Floor Plan: select + to upload the floor plan file

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Scale floor plan (one-time setup)

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.

  1. From the list of floors, select the floor you created in the previous step.

  2. Select Start Floor Configuration.

  3. 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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  4. 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. A green line appears around the floor outline.

  5. From the Floor Plan, verify that the calculated floor width and length measurements are accurate.

  6. When complete, from the upper-right corner select SAVE AND CONTINUE.

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After you've added all the floors, you can now add the rooms on each floor.

Add rooms

Below are the general instructions for adding rooms.

  1. From Room outlines > select the type of room you're adding.

    Room: an actual room with four interior walls (office, patient room, conference room).

    Virtual Room: an open area with no walls, which may also be referred to as an open space (workstation with multiple desks open collaboration area with sofas).

    Corridor: location is a corridor, which may also be referred to as a hallway or walkway.

  2. Enter a Name: uniquely identifies the room.

  3. Room Number: numerical value unique to the room; duplicates are not allowed. Essential for room-level location accuracy and tracking.

    Location & Occupancy API property: roomNumber and Device Management API property: irRoomNumber

    Reference Beacon (Anchor Beacon): roomID

  4. Select a drawing tool room-draw-rect.png or room-draw-poly.png > from the floor plan, place your mouse at the left upper-side of the room location > left-click to begin drawing the room.

  5. Repeat the above steps for each room location.

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 floorplan.

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