GongPath: Development of BIM Based Indoor Pedestrian Navigation System

This paper proposes a framework to enable intuitive navigation guidance for complex buildings which are huge in size and their space boundaries contain non-convex shape including non-navigable areas inside. Our approach utilizes ‘topological’ way-finding method to generate paths. This can be done by means of the integration of building information model (BIM) with our new algorithm to subdivide the spaces. The second main principle is to improve the visual information by using a new method to render all three dimensional views possibly observed in a building beforehand. This has been realized by imaging serviced using client-server architecture with supercomputer computation power.