Campus Operations Blog

ArcGIS Solutions offers a powerful set of tools designed specifically for your industry, helping you meet your organization’s unique needs. By tapping into your trusted data, these solutions can streamline operations, uncover insights, and boost the value of your location-based tech.

Here are four common ArcGIS Solutions to improve campus safety at college campuses.

This blog highlights the importance of using ArcGIS as the “glue” that connects campus facility systems, supporting strategic technology planning and improving operations through indoor-outdoor integration. It highlights success stories from institutions showcasing how campus leaders are using ArcGIS to enhance both indoor and outdoor operations.

As 9-1-1 administrators across the country recognize the critical need for up-to-date school floor plans, many states are funding initiatives to modernize mapping systems for School Districts. Cloudpoint Geospatial is at the forefront of this initiative, leveraging professional-grade LiDAR reality-capture equipment and ArcGIS Indoors to create highly accurate, interactive indoor maps. These digital floor plans integrate seamlessly with 9-1-1 Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) systems, ensuring first responders have real-time, detailed building layouts when every second counts. Discover how cutting-edge scanning technology is revolutionizing public safety mapping for K-12 schools.

ArcGIS Solutions offers a powerful set of tools designed specifically for your industry, helping you meet your organization’s unique needs. By tapping into your trusted data, these solutions can streamline operations, uncover insights, and boost the value of your location-based tech.

Here are four common ArcGIS Solutions to better manage utilities at college campuses.

ArcGIS Indoors provides a strong core, but gets a boost when stretched, strengthened, and flexed to meet unique requirements and challenges.

Read this article to learn the flexibility of indoor mapping and how to push it beyond the "limit"—customizing and extending its capabilities to meet the diverse and complex needs of campus operations.

ArcGIS Solutions provides a robust suite of industry-specific configurations tailored to meet your organization's requirements effectively. These solutions harness the power of your authoritative data to enhance operations, reveal new insights, and improve services, ensuring you get the most out of your investment in location-based data and technology. 

Below are three commonly used ArcGIS Solutions to better manage grounds and maintenance.

The Henry Ford Museum's (THF) ArcGIS Indoors Pilot Project and Workflow Analysis showcased the value of geospatial technology in advancing a smart campus initiative.

By leveraging ArcGIS Indoors, the project enhanced facility management, space planning, and visitor experiences. Through the integration of numerous cutting-edge technologies—THF explored innovative ways to optimize operations and historic digital preservation.

The project demonstrated the power and feasibility of ArcGIS Indoors for wayfinding, emergency response, and historic storytelling, laying the groundwork for future expansion.

UC San Diego utilizes ArcGIS tools to provide a dynamic construction alert application to accompany notification narratives built in ArcGIS Experience Builder.

In this article you will learn how UC San Diego leveraged ArcGIS and location intelligence to address the challenges of campus growth management and replacement of disconnected legacy systems and workflows

Are you looking to create a seamless navigation experience for your campus? Indoor route networks are transforming the way people find their way around, offering on-the-fly route calculations and turn-by-turn directions between interior spaces. This article give an overview of the steps required to develop and publish indoor route networks using the ArcGIS Indoors product.

My name is Olivia Koch, I’m an undergraduate student at the University of Rhode Island studying Environmental Science and Management, and in this blog post I will be talking about my experience working with GIS for facility operations in higher education and how it broadened my perspective on the uses of GIS.