Empowering Facility Managers: Multimodal Location-Based Visualization for Smart Sanitizer Dispensers Management

Victor-Adriel De-Jesus-Oliveira, Thomas Bigler, Florian Grassinger, Michael Zauchinger, Albert Treytl, Wolfgang Aigner

2025

Abstract

Facility management employees are in charge of maintaining a safe and operational infrastructure. Even a seemingly simple task, such as maintaining disinfectant dispensers that need to be operational and constantly refilled, can become costly as the number of units and the distance between them increases. In this context, the deployment of wireless sensor networks allows not only scaling data collection but also for optimizing otherwise mundane tasks and improving response times. Location-based and situated data representations are then presented as powerful tools to visualize and assess data in relation to its physical referent. In this paper, we report a proof-of-concept study on the implementation of sensor-powered disinfectant dispensers deployed on a university campus. We present the design of different location-based visualization dashboards to explore and monitor dispenser status including a traditional web dashboard with list and map views, as well as an augmented reality (AR) app displaying embedded data representations. Interviews with facility management employees are conducted to review their impressions, discuss how such dashboards could be incorporated into their workflow, and explore potential improvements to better support their work.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

De-Jesus-Oliveira V., Bigler T., Grassinger F., Zauchinger M., Treytl A. and Aigner W. (2025). Empowering Facility Managers: Multimodal Location-Based Visualization for Smart Sanitizer Dispensers Management. In Proceedings of the 20th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: IVAPP; ISBN 978-989-758-728-3, SciTePress, pages 815-822. DOI: 10.5220/0013105200003912

in Bibtex Style

@conference{ivapp25,
author={Victor-Adriel De-Jesus-Oliveira and Thomas Bigler and Florian Grassinger and Michael Zauchinger and Albert Treytl and Wolfgang Aigner},
title={Empowering Facility Managers: Multimodal Location-Based Visualization for Smart Sanitizer Dispensers Management},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 20th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: IVAPP},
year={2025},
pages={815-822},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0013105200003912},
isbn={978-989-758-728-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 20th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: IVAPP
TI - Empowering Facility Managers: Multimodal Location-Based Visualization for Smart Sanitizer Dispensers Management
SN - 978-989-758-728-3
AU - De-Jesus-Oliveira V.
AU - Bigler T.
AU - Grassinger F.
AU - Zauchinger M.
AU - Treytl A.
AU - Aigner W.
PY - 2025
SP - 815
EP - 822
DO - 10.5220/0013105200003912
PB - SciTePress