3D Virtual Application as a Guidance and Facility Management Tool Applied to University Buildings

Orientation within university campuses, given the size and number of buildings, is a problem that is particularly relevant for those who are entering for the first time. The location maps available in many universities may not be useful on certain occasions and, in addition, the identification of the different rooms shown on them is often not always up to date or accurate. On the other hand, many university buildings do not have a comprehensive system for managing the maintenance of the facilities, which results in unnecessary expenditure of time and resources. This paper presents a module of a web application that uses 3D models and spherical photographs whose objectives are, on the one hand, to facilitate orientation within university buildings and, on the other hand, to provide a facility management tool. This article describes the main functionalities of this module (orientation and facility management), the development process and the working principles of the software architecture used (model-view-controller). In addition to the web application module, a smartphone application dedicated to facilitate the orientation inside the university buildings by means of 2D maps and dynamic routes that point the way to the different rooms is presented.