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SOLUTION · People & flow

Indoor navigation & wayfinding.

Stop visitors getting lost in your building. Give patients, guests and staff turn-by-turn, blue-dot directions to any room, clinic, desk or asset — on the phone they already carry, no app-store friction.

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How it works

Indoor wayfinding: how it works, and what it pays back.

The right positioning technology for your building — chosen, never sold — behind a blue-dot experience people already understand.

1 · Map

We digitise your floor plans and points of interest — rooms, clinics, desks, exits and accessible routes — into a routable map.

2 · Position

BLE beacons, UWB or Wi-Fi place a blue dot on the visitor’s phone, browser-based where possible so there is no app to install.

3 · Guide

Turn-by-turn routing to any destination, plus footfall and dwell analytics to improve layout and signage.

Vendor-neutral

Which technology actually fits.

We have no hardware to sell, so the recommendation serves your building and budget — not a price book.

BLE beacons

Broad coverage at low cost — the workhorse of blue-dot navigation.

UWB

Sub-metre guidance where precision matters.

Wi-Fi / VPS

Re-use existing Wi-Fi or visual positioning to limit new hardware.

In practice

From “where do I go?” to door-to-door directions.

A large hospital rolls out browser-based wayfinding linked from appointment texts. Patients route themselves from the car park to the right clinic, missed and late appointments fall, and reception stops escorting lost visitors.

Typically bought by: Facilities, patient experience / operations, estates, digital / IT.

USE CASES

Where this solution wins — examples by sector.

Hospital visitor wayfinding (healthcare)

Visitor navigation in complex hospital campuses.

Airport passenger wayfinding (transport)

Terminal navigation for passengers.

Conference and venue wayfinding (workplace)

Event-venue navigation and session-finding.

Retail store wayfinding (retail)

In-store product-location and aisle navigation.

Industrial-site visitor wayfinding (industrials)

Industrial-site safety and induction.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

How does indoor navigation work without GPS?

Indoor positioning (BLE, UWB or Wi-Fi) locates the user on a venue map and gives turn-by-turn directions - the indoor equivalent of GPS, which does not work reliably inside buildings.

Do visitors need an app?

Often, but not always - blue-dot navigation usually runs in a mobile or web app; some venues add kiosks and digital signage for people who do not install anything.

How accurate does wayfinding need to be?

A few metres is enough to guide someone down the right corridor; denser BLE or UWB improves accuracy in complex venues such as hospitals and airports.

What else can the same infrastructure do?

The positioning layer that powers wayfinding can also drive asset tracking, occupancy and analytics - so navigation often funds a broader RTLS platform.

What is the benefit?

Less time and stress finding rooms, fewer missed appointments and 'where is it' calls, and footfall analytics for large, complex buildings.

Ready to scope it?

30 minutes on the building, the technology and the numbers.

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