An Indoor Positioning and Navigation System (IPNS) is a technology solution designed to help people and assets find their exact location inside buildings where GPS signals are weak or unavailable. While outdoor navigation has become easy with satellite-based GPS, indoor environments such as shopping malls, airports, hospitals, warehouses, universities, and large office complexes still present major challenges. Indoor positioning systems solve this problem by using a mix of wireless technologies, sensors, and digital maps to provide real-time location tracking and guidance.
Indoor navigation works by collecting signals from different sources such as Wi-Fi access points, Bluetooth beacons, RFID tags, ultra-wideband (UWB) devices, or even magnetic field mapping. These signals are analyzed to determine the user’s position within a building. Once the system identifies the location, it can guide the user to a destination using step-by-step directions, similar to how Google Maps works outdoors. The main difference is that indoor navigation requires…

