User Experience Design for Indoor Positioning and Navigation


Alternative text - include a link to the PDF!

Related Projects


Creator/Artist: Jayati Bandyopadhyay

Category: Interaction Design

Document: P1 Project

Batch: 2014-2016

Source: India,   IDC IIT Bombay

Period:  2009-2018

Medium: Report pdf

Supervisor: Mr. Avial Chandra & Mr. Venkatesh Bilvam, CEO & CDO of Sensus Technologies Pvt. Ltd. respectively.


Detailed Description

People spend around 90% of their time in indoor spaces. User experience in indoor spaces is comparatively less explored because of limited number of solutions for indoor navigation and positioning. While GPS helps us in navigating and locating outdoors, it cannot communicate with the satellites once we go indoors. Wifi and Bluetooth technologies are among the few options available for indoor navigation, the level of accuracy they provide is in meter level. With their custom hardware and stochastic models, Sensus has achieved centimeter level of accuracy. Currently, the technology supports B2B applications as it uses a special handheld device that communicates with beacons placed in strategic positions within the indoor space. Sensus is currently focusing on large indoor spaces mostly warehouses, museums and shopping malls. Our studies include experience prototyping, user studies, shadowing and observing people. We also contributed in their client demonstrations by designing and developing quick interfaces and worked on their concept video