I&T Solution

Reference No.

S-0528

Solution Name

AR Indoor Navigation System with Immersive Experience

Solution Description

Complex building structures may be challenging to navigate. Augmented Reality will play a significant role as a gateway to the future – the one that is artificially enabled and fully immersive. Our AR-based indoor navigation system can support user navigating within a complex building, facilitate the identification of different points of interest (POI) and create an immersive environment for enhancing interactive user experience. 

Benefits:
•	Simple Implementation: The system requires no on-site equipment and comes with an easily accessible app for mapping a real-world space on a phone or tablet.
•	Accurate Position and Orientation: By capturing unique feature points, our visual positioning solution uses the pre-constructed spatial maps to localize the device with computer vision, and provide user an on-screen direction.
•	5G Mobile-Integrated Service: By combining 5G connectivity with the mobile edge computing (MEC) architecture, localization can be handled and virtual content can be streamed with minimal latency.
•	Best-in-class AR Experience: The system adopted industry leading platform Unity for creating engaging AR contents. Our system offers immersive experiences, interactive multi-player games, and supports POI in various formats such as text, picture, video, and 3D objects, etc.

Application Areas

City Management
Commerce and Industry
Development
Education
Environment
Population
Recreation and Culture
Transport

Technologies Used

Augmented Reality
Cloud Computing
Mobile Technologies

Use Case

Our system turns any spaces into an immersive AR experience. It can be applied in various large spaces such as entertainment centre, museums, campus facilities, workplaces, hospitals, etc. and can go beyond indoor navigation to provide extra benefits. Some examples as below: 

•	Exhibition, Conventions and Show: Our system helps with event management such as smart tour guide that adding layers of visual information and supplementing audio guide, and provide flexible venue layout such as virtual booths. 
•	Entertainment Centre, Museum, and Mall: Our system supports multiplayer interactive elements such as contests and gaming that allow user to search for, explore, and get offers from the retailers. 
•	Building Management: For improving inspection and maintenance, our system allows BIM data integration and overlay.
•	Smart Cities: We offer persistent AR solution mapping both indoor and outdoor seamlessly to build a next-generation neighborhood, provide city-scale navigation and amenities searching to increase efficiencies of urban living.

Company / Organisation Name

HKT Limited

Email Address

koby.cc.yu@pccw.com

Telephone Number

28882223

Website

Address

39th Floor, PCCW Tower, Taikoo Place, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong

If any government department would like to conduct PoC trial or technology testing on the I&T solution, please contact Smart LAB.