An important part of navigation applications is electronic maps – a ready-made image or a set of data for its construction, vector, or raster maps. In most cases, when creating applications, companies use mapping services, and the application itself, depending on customer requirements, is developed with or without support for downloading additional maps. No need to create your own maps reduces the cost of application development.
To reduce costs, for creating one’s own maps, as well as for adapting ready-made solutions, constructor services are used, with the help of which different kinds of maps, layers, objects, photos, and text are created.
The IPS System
In simple words, the IPS system is considered as an indoor GPS system. It is specifically for a building that helps in locating inside with the help of tablets and mobile phones. There is no doubt that technology has reached a level to step up with the latest advancement. In terms of users, the apps allow them to easily search the best and shortest possible routes inside the building in real-time as the technology allows easy navigation. With the help of apps, the entire search procedure gets easier as it consists of an option of Voice destination and allows them to create and find the shortest & easiest routes. And this is the main reason behind the making of these newly trending indoor mobile apps.
As part of creating the application, the company’s specialists:
• Develop system architecture, define and describe requirements for the application.
• Develop application design – screenshots, visualization elements, icons.
• Design and create software to implement the possibility to work with maps and cartographic information, to download data.
• If necessary, map a given number of objects with or without brief information about them. It is possible to use augmented reality technologies.
• They develop special services allowing to realize the application’s functionality, stipulated by the requirements specification: selection, building, visualization, tracking, saving the route, determining the location of the object, getting information about the object and related reference data, the ability to download and install custom maps, information exchange with other users, etc.
• Process customer-provided or develop unique content with its subsequent placement in an Indoor Navigation Mobile App.
• Performing testing of the application.
• Publish the app (App Store, Google Play, Windows Store) or place it on the customer’s site.
The Price of App Development
Every customer who wants to make an application asks how much it costs. But there is no unambiguous answer to this question – in each case the cost will be different. It depends on which studio takes on the work, and what costs the studio includes in the cost. Therefore, the same project developers are willing to do for different money. It happens that the difference is hundreds of dollars – and this is normal.
The estimated cost of these applications, depending on the functions and their value reaches $50,000, while their price starts at $10,000. We’re only talking about basic features, but if additional features are added to the app, the cost will start at $20,000 for additional features.
Why does it cost $20,000 for some people to develop a mobile app and $50,000 for others? There are several reasons really.
Company/Studio
There are many different studios in the mobile app development market. There are large studios with a staff of two hundred, and then there are small teams of eight or ten people. Some studios specialize in developing applications for medicine and insurance, while others specialize in applications for cabs and the restaurant business. But the main criterion for choosing a studio is the clients it works with. Location, staff, specialization, and prices all depend on this.
Studio Costs
Apart from the size of the studio and the clients it works with, the cost of the application is also influenced by the company’s expenses for the development of one solution or another. The direct costs, that is labour costs, include the possibilities of the application and its functionality, individual design, platforms the service will run on, as well as the server part and the possibilities of administration.
Possibilities and Functionality of The Application
The more complex an application, the more expensive it is. User scenarios, number of screens and application states, buttons, fields, amount of business logic, and server infrastructure require many hours of development and subsequent testing. Here are the costliest components.
Screens, Actions, And Data in The Application
Each screen has to be invented: choose the optimal arrangement of elements and buttons, think through the business logic, take care of the user experience. Behind this is a lot of work by various specialists in the studio, from the project manager to the tester.
In conclusion, these are the basic things that one much understands about Indoor Navigation Mobile Apps that are used for large buildings and complexes. In addition to this, there are so many benefits to the business. However, it is essential to make sure that things are done smartly to achieve the best.