Smart Cities World: Partnership seeks to strengthen indoor mapping for emergency response

Critical Response Group will integrate next-gen technology from NextNav to strengthen existing and new building surveys with critical vertical location data to increase safety.

Next generation GPS specialist NextNav is partnering with Critical Response Group (CRG) to build highly accurate indoor maps with embedded vertical location data.

CRG specialises in enhancing public safety planning and response through the implementation of indoor mapping data and the integration of the data into the technical systems utilised by first responders in the US.

Mapping data

CRG’s product is used across a variety of organisations, including hospitals, schools, businesses and critical infrastructure sites. Its mapping data combines a gridded overlay, high resolution imagery, and floor plans together into one map to provide customers and public agencies with the situational awareness needed to improve emergency response coordination and ultimately help first responders get to people in need more quickly.

The integration of the NextNav Pinnacle will strengthen existing and new building surveys with critical vertical location data and help ensure that each building has the proper preparations and protocols in place to aid emergency response.

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