Campus Spatial Intelligence Platform

Campus Spatial Intelligence Platform

Campuses are physical environments shared by many people, departments, services, and responsibilities.

Parking may live in one system. Events may be published somewhere else. Building information, classrooms, maintenance, wayfinding, public spaces, safety information, and operational updates may each be managed independently.

Each source can be useful while the overall campus experience remains fragmented.

Campus Spatial Intelligence Platform explores whether those separate pieces could be connected through a shared GIS-based environment organized around place.

Central Question

How can one location-based platform help students, staff, visitors, and leaders find information, understand what is happening, and interact with a campus more easily?

Research Focus

The research is exploring how a shared spatial environment might connect information concerning:

• Parking

• Buildings

• Classrooms

• Events

• Wayfinding

• Facilities

• Services

• Live campus updates

Rather than requiring people to search across disconnected applications, websites, maps, and departments, location could become the common reference connecting information associated with the same physical environment.

Where appropriate, users may also be able to contribute information by submitting updates, requests, or other relevant inputs through the same spatial framework.

The concept is being considered across several potential campus environments, including:

• Educational campuses

• Healthcare campuses

• Civic campuses

• Industrial campuses

• Commercial campuses

Decision Value

A shared campus platform could potentially serve two different but related purposes.

For students, staff, visitors, and other users, it may create a simpler way to navigate the campus, locate services, receive updates, and understand what is happening around them.

For facilities teams, operations personnel, and leadership, the same spatial foundation may help connect information associated with the physical environment and support both daily operations and long-term planning.

The research therefore extends beyond creating a better map.

The question is whether place can become the organizing structure through which disconnected campus information becomes more useful together.

Relevant To

This research may be relevant to:

• Colleges and universities

• K–12 campuses

• Healthcare systems

• Civic campuses

• Business parks

• Facilities and operations teams

• Students

• Staff

• Visitors

• GIS and technology partners

The work remains in development. Corbeau is examining whether a shared spatial foundation can improve the experience of interacting with a campus while also giving the people responsible for operating it a more connected picture of the environment they collectively manage.