[Webinar highlights] - Map Smarter, with AI-Powered MapScale®!

Last year, we hosted a webinar introducing MapScale®, a world-first and radically new way of doing indoor mapping using machine learning and smart algorithms. MapScale® enables smart buildings and location services by taking raw floorplans and instantly transforming them into beautiful, interactive 3D maps that can be edited and managed on the go in the Pointr Cloud via the Pointr Dashboard.

We’ve handpicked some of our standout webinar highlights to help you understand how you can make your buildings smart with MapScale®. 

MapScale® - a world-first AI mapping technology

Eva Cheng, Pointr’s Product Marketing Manager, explained how Pointr’s MapScale® automated the mapping production process and could quickly digitize buildings at scale, hundreds of times faster than competing vendors, and in just 2 steps.

MapScale® in action

Melih Peker, Machine Learning Engineer at Pointr, showed a digital map (generated live from a CAD drawing) where MapScale® not only rendered the digital map but also identified furniture, rooms, elevators, stairs, and other points of interest represented in 3D. This illustrated the power of MapScale® in being able to mimic a human interpretation of the output.

Deep Dive into the rocket since behind MapScale®

The challenges of the map digitization process

Can Tunca, Senior R&D Manager at Pointr, introduced different types of floorplans, usually produced without standardization and by individuals in AutoCAD, which made it difficult to automate the process. Maps drawn in this way were not designed to be consumer-friendly and contained a host of information that wasn’t relevant to the digital mapping process.

Simple, visually pleasing, easy-to-view consumer maps

It was important to clean up irrelevant information you didn’t want to show to the end user for an optimal mapping experience. Certain levels of detail were also unnecessary, such as the huge variety of furniture drawn in different styles, shapes, and forms.

MapScale® - a self-improving mechanism by design

Instead of building a huge library of rules for MapScale® (that would be inefficient and not work for every venue), we created state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms to mimic the human visual system and interpret venues as humans do. These models evolved and improved over time; we called this adaptive recognition.

Interactive 3D maps - the power of post-processing

Once MapScale® completed the identification process, identifying items such as furniture and classifying objects and rooms, including exact coordinates, post-processing took place. Post-processing developed the exact shape of objects such as desks, walls, rooms, etc.

MapScale® - just the first link in a complete end-to-end product

Can Tunca illustrates that Pointr’s digital mapping didn’t end with the MapScale® generated output. Maps exported to Pointr Cloud could be edited in the Pointr Dashboard to reflect changes in buildings, the movement of furniture, room number changes, and even changes in floors.

Pointr Maps on mobile

Pointr Maps could be used on desktop and mobile. Here Can showed how our maps looked on mobile - the same 3D map format as in the Pointr Dashboard. He illustrated the mobile map was updated, in real-time, with an edit he just made in the Pointr Dashboard being reflected immediately. The mobile app was fully interactive,

Maps were highly customizable to match your brand

You could change everything relative to a map, including colors, styles of objects, colors of walls, heights of walls, and much more. Present your maps exactly as you’d like them to look, even convert from 3D to 2D if you’d like.

Pointr’s 3D vector maps performed smoothly across multiple platforms and, being vector-based, flowed smoothly without glitches.

A re-cap of Pointr’s end-to-end mapping platform

Can summed up the complete Pointr offering from MapScale’s® ultra-fast map production to creating and managing map content in Pointr Cloud and the final interactive maps supporting iOS, Android, kiosks, and web applications.

Watch Mapscale® webinar on demand! https://www.pointr.tech/on-demand-webinar-video-map-smarter-with-ai-powered-mapscale

Author: Les Blythe

Link: https://www.pointr.tech/blog/mapscale-webinar-highlights