Mapping assets in Indoors

[mshanaghan]

My organization wants to start inventorying/mapping assets in ArcGIS Indoors. We have a single enterprise geodatabase which contains the regular Indoors feature classes (sites, facilities, levels, units, details, and occupants). 

When we start mapping floor-aware assets (printers, copiers, projectors, etc.), would we put these new feature classes in the original Indoors enterprise geodatabase? Or would they go in their own enterprise geodatabase? I will add the detail that we do not plan to "track" 'these assets through an indoor positioning system.

Looking for best practices and lessons learned. All advice is appreciated.

[AndrewBowne]

Floor Aware feature classes can live anywhere.  The one thing they do need is a field that represents which floor the assets exist on. Typically, this would be field called "Level_ID", although it can be named anything. 

[SCB]

Ah, I see this is related to your ideas post.  

Like I mentioned in there, if you need to know the exact location of an object you will need to give it it's coordinates in x, y and z/Level.  Where this isn't the case I would probably include the Unit_ID in the asset table so each record knows which room it is in.  From here with a relate you can incorporate your asset inventory into your Indoors model, then you can do things like see what assets are in a specific room, or see where all the panini grills are located.

Cheers

SCB