Our data visualization team was tasked with researching technologies to produce a mobile web-based 3D wayfinding application for the Idaho National Laboratory’s (INL) Space Management Program (SMP). The INL campus is comprised of multiple buildings in Idaho Falls, ID, as well as outside of the city on the 890 square mile INL complex. The buildings are often large and complex and difficult for employees and visitors to navigate. Many of the buildings have 2D maps that are difficult to read and can be time consuming to maintain.  They were interested in developing an interactive 3D mobile wayfinding application. If developed, the application will help users locate corridors, stairwells, exits, conference rooms, cafeterias, co-work spaces, and individual offices. The final deliverable for this project was a report detailing our findings and a simple proof of concept pictured above.

While there are many commercially available products that accomplish this goal, our client had unique constraints that made using standard off the shelf software difficult.  Our deliverable was to provide a comprehensive report describing the current state of available technologies. 

We went beyond by providing a proof of concept and a work plan that described how their team could accomplish the final implementation with very little software investment. 

Technologies used : ESRI (ArcScene, CityEngine, ArcMap, ArcGISOnline, Portal), QGIS, ThreeJS, PlayCanvas, Blender4Web

Technical Communications

Design and deploy mission critical technical communications that convey complex ideas and data.

Our team understands how to communicate complex scientific ideas and technology.  The depth of our team ensures that your message is communicated clearly and concisely at all stakeholder levels.  Many of our technologists have scientific backgrounds and understand how to best communicate new concepts and technologies.  We often employ visual tools and graphics to help clients illustrate and communicate specific data sets and research that they wish to convey to a variety of targeted audiences.

Gravis Tech worked with Spokane Regional Health District (SRHD) to provide an online, one-stop-shop web based data portal for community and population-based data sets. Through this effort, website users now have access to a variety of data and information sets summarized and prepared for public use. This portal enables local communities to utilize public health data to inform policy and program decisions. Our scope included working with the SRHD Data Management Group to create a highly customized website on a very tight project schedule.

We went beyond by performing a robust requirements gathering process to help the customer design their vision for the final product.  During project initiation, it became clear that more design discussions were needed.   We pivoted our project schedule and worked closely with the project team to produce a product we are all proud of.