Development of a Mobile Application for Room Booking and Indoor Navigation

Signboards and static maps placed around the buildings are mostly used to navigate the people. The use of signboards inside the building sometimes can cause confusions for people who are unfamiliar with the internal building architecture. It gets more difficult when the building consists of multiple level with several wings and junctions. Unlike outdoor navigations, indoor navigation applications are helpful to navigate users within the buildings. Several network devices are configured to collect the position of the users or objects. Precision of positioning in the indoor navigation is still an open research area. In this study, we develop an application to precisely navigate the users in the closed environments. We have used Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP) campus as a case for developing our application. The application also adds an additional feature for enabling users to book the university rooms (e.g., conference rooms). Once the users book the rooms, this application will navigate them to the booked locations within the building. The application has been developed using RAD methodology which allows the project to be divided into smaller parts based on modules involved which at the end was compiled together and can be completed within shorter time due to limited time constraint to complete the project. As final result, a mobile application has been successfully developed which able to elevate the project to next phase which carry out user acceptance test allowing the identification of target user insights of using an indoor navigation application in the environment selected for this project. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.