The WayCloud On Campus experience is accessed via on-site kiosks or other personal smart devices. Each kiosk knows its own location, and the process of selecting and displaying the map with start/end locations requires the user to tap the screen once. When the map is displayed on the kiosk the user can send the map and directions via text or email to themselves, family members or other visitors.
The kiosk wayfinding experience requires the user to tap/click the screen only once.
The Off-Campus WayCloud experience can be accessed on a smartphone, desktop PC or any other Internet-enabled device. It will guide users from their current location to the correct parking area. The user’s current location is discovered by the Google maps API, plugged into WayCloud, then (automatically) displayed to the user along with a list of destinations from which to choose.
This experience requires the user to tap/click the screen at most three times.
Have you ever arrived at a large hospital, university or other large campus and parked in a random parking lot then gone inside to ask for directions to your destination only to find that your destination is on the opposite side of the campus? If you’re like me, you then struggle with the question “Walk across the hospital twice or hop in your car and pray for another parking space on the other side of campus?”
This is just one of the many problems that WayCloud has been designed to solve: A wayfinding and mapping solution that works in your phone’s web browser with no need to download an app. Simply go to your branded URL – like company.waycloud.co – click or tap on your destination and watch the cloud-based mapping solution draw a map to your destination. WayCloud also integrates turn by turn GPS navigation to get you parked in the most convenient parking area.
Waycloud is a web-based wayfinding solution created to address the problem of visitor navigation on large campuses. WayCloud uses easy to read, visually interesting isographic maps to show users to thier current location and detination.
No. WayCloud is not a mobile app; it’s a cloud-based application, which runs within a Web browser.
Yes. Specific services & waypoints can be added to WayCloud using custom branded icons and can, in fact, help visitors navigate large campuses.
WayCloud employs a single SAAS & instance-based licensing system.
Yes. Services such as valet, shuttlebuses and designated drop-off and pick-up zones can be shown to visitors.
Maps are custom designed on a per-client basis. Colors, corporate branding, and render styles are virtually unlimited.
WayCloud is platform-agnostic. Using any reasonably up-to-date Web browser, WayCloud will work on nearly any Internet-connected device.
Yes. WayCloud will record user interactions and behavior across the entirety of the application, to be displayed later through the WayCloud admin panel.
Yes. WayCloud is a white-label product; you can use your own company’s logo, colors, icons, and images.
There is only one level of support: Full and complete support, up to and including hardware installation, user training & addressing unexpected hardware failures.
Yes. WayCloud is designed to be accessed before you get on the road, or once you arrive on site. WayCloud can take you from your current location to the correct parking lot on campus, direct you to the closest entrance, then take you to the correct elevator and finally to the correct destination within the hospital.
Wayfinding systems make financial sense. Costs associated with wayfinding problems are often hidden. For example, consider the indirect cost of lost productivity as concerned staff members take time away from their duties to give directions or walk lost visitors to their destination. One study at a major tertiary hospital estimated the cost of wayfinding problems at $220,000 per year (Zimring).
Another indirect cost of poor wayfinding is that lost visitors are late or miss their appointments as people who visit the location infrequently misjudge how long it takes to navigate an unfamiliar environment.
Furthermore, successful wayfinding systems can contribute to better Press Ganey scores as have been demonstrated at hospitals around the world.
