Schiphol International Airport Releases Indoor Wayfinding
The Schiphol Airport App delivers you, stress-free, to your gate
Because GPS does not work inside buildings, more than 2,000 beacons have been placed throughout Schiphol airport. This means that users of the app can now make use of location detection technology within Schiphol. With an accuracy range of five metres, passengers are able to easily find their way to their gate via the navigation functionality of the map. Indoor Wayfinding technology has rarely been used in such large and complex buildings as Schiphol, which is one of the first major airports to have integrated Indoor Wayfinding into its own mobile application.
The recently released update is greatly advanced due to the integration of Indoor Wayfinding, and is under constant development. Project manager Mike Smolders (M2mobi): ‘We have been working very hard with Schiphol on indoor location detection and are extremely pleased with having developed such a user-friendly solution with an accuracy range of approximately five metres!’
Michiel Munneke: ‘We are proud of our innovation partnership with Schiphol. Outdoor, mobile navigation has become a commodity, but indoor navigation is still in its infancy. It’s great to see that we can work so successfully with Schiphol to explore the boundaries of what is possible in this area.’
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