Asistente virtual de navegación y generación de rutas en espacios cerrados

Abstract

Technological progress and the internet of things have boosted the creation of intelligent buildings that meet the requirements of owners and managers, giving way to the collection of relevant information for the management of the place and improve the experience of visitors. One of the most attractive and at the same time challenging needs of buildings or enclosed spaces is the navigation in their interiors. To solve this demand, the use of technologies is necessary. At present there are several technologies for navigation of which stand out: UWB, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth low energy (BLE), RFID and GPS. GPS systems in outdoor environments combined with stand-alone cell phones can achieve high accuracy. However, indoors and in environments with deep shadow effects, satellite and cellular signals are often disrupted, and positioning is problematic. This project presents an indoor navigation system solution based on mobile devices using Bluetooth Low Energy (Beacons) as an enabling technology and implemented in a mobile application that suggests the most optimal route to reach a certain location with the help of a virtual assistant. The mobile application called Rutas app is developed in the Flutter framework based on Dart programming language and is available for both visitors and administrators, which presents a dynamic map of the space with information on places of interest to users and a section of routes in which depending on the place you want to reach presents the optimal route to follow, this with the help of the built-in virtual assistant, which is activated by voice. Thus, addressing problems of misplacement and improving the experience of visiting the place, it also shows the administrators reports of the places with more recurrence and users who frequent the space, this information is relevant because from it you can act and implement strategies to better manage the place.