Towards indoorgml 2.0: Updates and case study illustrations

Indoor environments differ from outdoor in many aspects. This, added to the limitations faced by other common standards for urban features reinforced the need of setting a dedicated standard for indoor applications. IndoorGML was born in this context to provide the basic concepts, data models, and standard that meet the requirements of indoor...

LADM-IndoorGML for exploring user movements in evacuation exercise

The users' movements in the indoor environments differ based on the condition of the environments. During an indoor emergency, an efficient evacuation is required to help the users to move to the safe areas. Many types of incidents could impact the movements of users and this requires studying the behavior of the people during the evacuation....

3D Cadastres Best Practices, Chapter 3: 3D Cadastral Information Modelling

In this chapter we address various aspects of 3D Cadastral Information Modelling. Of course, this is closely related to the legal framework and initial registration as presented in the first two chapters. Cadastral data models, such as the Land Administration Domain Model, which include 3D support, have been developed for legal information...

Using the combined LADM-IndoorGML model to support building evacuation

During an incident, many people that are located in indoor environments require to follow emergency evacuation procedures. The ‘emergency evacuation’ term has been defined as ‘a critical movement of people from a dangerous area due to the risk or an incident of a tragic event’ (Bonabeau, 2002). An emergency evacuation could be needed in a...

Spatial subdivision of complex indoor environments for 3D indoor navigation

As we realize that we spend most of our time in increasingly complex indoor environments, applications to assist indoor activities (e.g. guidance) have gained a lot of attention in the recent years. The advances in ubiquitous computing made possible the development of several spatial models intending to support context-aware and fine-grained...

About the subdivision of indoor spaces in indoorGML

Boosted by the dynamic urbanization of cities, indoor environments are getting more and more complex in order to be able to host people properly. While most of our time is spent inside buildings, the need of GIS tools to assist our daily activities that can become tedious, such as indoor navigation or facility management, became more and more...

Towards the integration of indoorGML and indoorlocationGML for indoor applications

This paper introduces and compares two types of GML-based data standards for indoor location-based services, i.e., iIndoorGML and iIndoorLocationGML. By elaborating the advantages of the both standards and their data models, we conclude that the two data standards are complementary to each other. A jointed data model is presented to show the...

Extraction of the 3D Free Space from Building Model for Indoor Navigation

For several decades, indoor navigation has been exclusively investigated in a 2D perspective, based on floor plans, projection and other 2D representations of buildings. Nevertheless, 3D representations are closer to our reality and offer a more intuitive description of the space configuration. Thanks to recent advances in 3D modelling, 3D...

Indoor Abstract Spaces: Linking IndoorGML and LADM

In this paper we investigate the possible synergy between two different but related standards: OGC’s IndoorGML and ISO TC211’s LADM. Both (can) deal with 3D spaces with properties, constraints and associations attached and both can operate with abstract notations of space. But there are also differences, e.g. LADM is a conceptual model, while...