Technology

5G Indoor Positioning: The Ultimate Guide

This guide explores the technological evolution of 5G New Radio (NR) as it transitions into a high-precision indoor positioning system (IPS). Driven by 3GPP Release 17, 5G now offers sub-meter accuracy and the capacity to handle one million connected devices per square kilometer, solving the scalability challenges faced by legacy networks. The article provides a detailed comparison of 5G positioning methods. It discusses critical enterprise benefits, including ultra-low latency for Digital Twins and enhanced security via private networks, illustrating real-world applications across manufacturing, logistics, and healthcare.

Logistics and Warehousing

How an Asset Tracking App Can Boost ROI by 30% in 2025: Tools, Platforms, and Strategies That Work

In today's complex business environment, maximizing ROI from your physical assets is a top priority. This article reveals how implementing a modern asset tracking app is the key strategy to achieve a 30% boost in operational savings by 2025. We detail the proven metrics for success (labor costs, downtime, loss prevention), explain the vital role of real-time online asset tracking, and compare top solutions, including specialized Location Intelligence Specialists like Navigine. Stop losing money to manual errors and missing equipment; start tracking smarter.

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Toyota's Seamless Parking Experience: A Pilot Success with Navigine X Minew Indoor Navigation

Toyota, seeking to eliminate delays and enhance the employee experience within its vast, complex multi-level parking structures, required an intelligent solution for real-time vehicle location and guidance. They deployed the Navigine x Minew Indoor Navigation Demo Kit, utilizing Minew BLE beacons and the Navigine Mobile SDK to enable reliable wayfinding and sub-meter positioning accuracy. The pilot successfully proved the solution's potential to increase parking space utilization by 10% and significantly streamline operations across the corporate campus.

Hotels

Smart Staff Tracking And Guest Navigation Enhanced by Hotel Wayfinding Across a Luxury Hotel

A luxury resort spanning 45,000 m² of indoor and outdoor spaces—including guest rooms, event venues, and service corridors—required a smart coordination system to enhance operational efficiency and guest experience. With 150+ staff members moving across multiple zones, the property faced challenges in task routing, access control, and real-time oversight. The resort adopted a BLE-based tracking solution integrated with PMS and mobile navigation to streamline service delivery and reduce response times.

Logistics and Warehousing

Optimizing Warehouse Operations with UWB-Based Employee and Robot Tracking

UWB-based tracking has greatly improved the operational efficiency and safety of the warehouse. This advanced tracking solution has enabled real-time tracking, automated route adjustments, and essential insights into streamlining warehouse logistics.

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Seamless Journeys on University Campus: Integrating Indoor and Outdoor Navigation Technology into the University App

Universities, with their extensive layouts and numerous facilities, often struggle with navigation issues that impede the daily lives of students, faculty, and visitors. Common directional assistance through physical promotional signage and static maps usually leads to confusion, delays, and dissatisfaction.

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RTLS Technology: Everything You Need to Know About UWB, BLE, and RFID

Accurate tracking and monitoring of assets, equipment, and other objects are increasingly being implemented into company infrastructures to enhance operational efficiency across various industries. RTLS (Real-Time Location System) enables the real-time identification of the location of objects or people within a defined area. This system relies on various technologies, with UWB, Bluetooth® LE, and RFID being the most commonly used.

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Enhance Healthcare Efficiency with the Wheelchair Tracking BLE Kit: A Complete User Guide

The Wheelchair Tracking BLE Kit by Navigine is an effective tool for optimizing operations in medical facilities, enabling BLE wheelchair tracking in real-time. The solution precisely determines the location of mobility-impaired patients, enhances their safety, and provides automated reporting for more efficient clinic management. With this kit, continuous hospital wheelchair tracking is ensured, optimizing the working time of medical staff.

Manufacturing

The Importance of Asset Management in Today's Manufacturing Landscape

Effective manufacturing asset management is decisive for enterprises aiming to maintain competitive advantages. Faced with the utilization of complex and costly equipment, constantly growing production demands, and the need to optimize costs, manufacturers need to prioritize this area in their daily operations. Skillful asset management ensures uninterrupted organization operation, allows for quality process optimization, and leads to increased profitability.

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Navigating Airports with Ease: The Role of Indoor Wayfinding Solutions

Navigating through airports can often be tedious and stressful for visitors. Long hallways, complex layouts, and crowded spaces can make it difficult to find gates, terminals, or facilities. However, in the digital age, airports are introducing innovative solutions that simplify travel processes and improve the passenger experience. One of these innovations is indoor wayfinding. In this article, we will explore the features of wayfinding in airports and delve into its role in the functioning of transport hubs.

Technology

The Capabilities of Indoor Positioning Analytics for Facilities Management

In our rapidly changing world, businesses are constantly looking for innovative digital solutions to increase efficiency and optimize their activities. Indoor positioning analytics has become a powerful tool that allows companies to gain valuable information about their indoor spaces and objects. It increases productivity, makes businesses safer, and helps managers make important business decisions.

Healthcare

From Increased Productivity to Reduced Costs: Why Hospital Asset Management is Essential

In the fast-paced and demanding medical industry, healthcare organizations are constantly looking for ways to improve patient care, increase staff productivity, and reduce costs. One important aspect of achieving these goals is the effective management of hospital assets. With hospital asset management, you can rationally use medical equipment and achieve maximum efficiency in work processes.

Retail

The Benefits of Wayfinding Maps in Large Retail Stores

Most large retail stores have an intricate and complex system of departments. Visiting them takes a lot of time and leads to wandering in search of the right products, which can cause stress and anxiety for shoppers. Navigation in retail using wayfinding maps, which replaces conventional signs and not always convenient information desks, helps solve this problem.

Retail

How Indoor Wayfinding Can Improve Customer Experience at a Shopping Mall

When visiting large shopping malls, many people feel stressed out. A large number of shops, crowds of customers, incomprehensible stands and signs - all this causes unpleasant emotions and makes it difficult to move around the building. Fortunately, managers can now improve customer experience by implementing indoor wayfinding technology. Efficient mall navigation enhances customer experience and helps develop a strategy to dramatically increase sales with loyal customers.

Technology

Case Study: Indoor Navigation for Museums & Notifications for Nearby Exhibits

In today's day and age, museums and art galleries have to constantly introduce innovative technologies that engage visitors in the best way possible. One of these effective and innovative solutions is an indoor navigation system for museums. The software is used via a mobile app and provides convenient wayfinding and notifications when a user approaches particular exhibits.

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Seamless Navigation and Tracking: How Do Systems Work?

Indoor navigation and asset monitoring don’t end just on the inside of the building. For many settings, such as college campuses, hospitals, and factories, it’s important to provide so-called "seamless" navigation and indoor-outdoor tracking. These solutions allow for smooth navigation/tracking between outside and inside the building within one app without additional effort.

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Why Implement Indoor Wayfinding on College Campuses?

With the development of modern technologies, many educational institutions began to introduce innovative systems into their infrastructure for easier and more accessible visits. Digital platforms make it much easier for students to stay on campus or at college. This is especially true for freshmen and guests who are not yet familiar with the internal layout of educational buildings. One such system is college campus wayfinding. It’s easy to implement and can be integrated into a mobile app or a college web platform.

Manufacturing

What are IoT smart factory and industry 4.0 manufacturing?

Smart manufacturing means using innovative technologies and elements of the Internet of Things for business process optimization. Thanks to accurate asset tracking, using artificial intelligence and digital platforms, companies can turn their workshops into smart spaces, which makes it possible to control the whole production process – from the supply of raw materials to finished goods.

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Indoor maps and their influence on client loyalty

Indoor mapping is a new addition to an ever-changing technical infrastructure of companies. This technology implies creation of indoor maps to navigate inside buildings with the prospect to locate valuables in real-time. Using indoor mapping, it’s possible to easily monitor location and movements of people, equipment, and various assets. Moreover, the system is a powerful analytical tool that opens up unlimited opportunities for organizing effective marketing campaigns.

Retail

Beacons in Retail: variants of application

Stiff competition and e-commerce development make retailers look for new ways of attracting customers. Earlier, simple advertisements were used for this purpose, while now retail stores have to implement more advanced techniques and methods. iBeacon technology has become one such solution. Its application takes retailers and clients to a completely new level.

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Why is GPS Ineffective Inside Buildings? GPS Alternatives for Positioning and Tracking

The global positioning system (GPS) is widely used all over the world for navigation, tracking, and defining object location. Its operating principle is based on measuring the arrival time of the synchronized signal coming from satellites to antennas (receivers). The technology allows pinpoint the location outside the building with an accuracy of up to 5-10 m. However, in the case of indoor GPS tracking, the system loses its precision.

Technology

Zone-based Localization Algorithm

The Navigine R&D team uses various localization algorithms for different purposes. To dive deep into implementing localization on our platform, we suggest you look at the Zone navigation algorithm, as the clearest and straightforward example.

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Devices for asset tracking and indoor navigation

To compete successfully in the conditions of rapidly developing technologies, companies must be innovative and effective. Navigation and asset tracking systems from Navigine assist in this. We develop software solutions for many spheres of activity. The implementation of such solutions into the company infrastructure is carried out using the equipment from our partners (trackers, tags, etc.) that is customized according to the needs of any client.

Technology

What is the Bluetooth® Beacon? Everything about Bluetooth® LE beacon

A navigational iBeacon is a tiny wireless device based on Bluetooth® technology. While installed inside buildings, it transmits a permanent radio signal that can be received by smartphones, points of access, or gateways. Beacons are installed in stores, museums, industrial enterprises, and other rooms for collecting data on movement, delivering information, and relevant advertisements to users. They differ in low energy consumption and can transmit data to a distance of 40-60 m.

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Indoor Positioning with IoT podcast

In July, Navigine CEO Alexey and CMO Elvina recorded a podcast with IoT For All on indoor positioning using IoT.

Technology

What are the alternatives for RFID technology?

In present day realities the search for new ways of improving business processes is directly connected with geolocation and positioning technologies. One of such solutions is RFID, a system of radio frequency identification, which allows tracking objects or persons. It is based on using readers and special RFID tags (transponders) that are placed in the form of tags, stickers, markers on tracked objects. From time to time readers send signals and tags using radio frequency emission for sending responses with data for identification.

Technology

Using Angle of Arrival for Direction Finding with Bluetooth 5.1

Although Bluetooth location services have been successful, there is currently a demand for solutions that can provide more high productivity. For example, some real-time location services (RTLS) deployments require centimeter precision. Fortunately, a useful new feature has recently been added to the new Bluetooth standard to meet these requirements.

Technology

SDK vs API

While developing applications and web-platforms for indoor positioning, developers use open source location API and SDK. These tools represent a set of protocols that allow integrating software products into iOS or Android based mobile apps. In our article we’ll speak about the main types and functions of navigation SDK and API and also try to explain what is the difference between them.

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Indoor Positioning by Navigine: Interview with Kai Gilb and Nick Rozaev

Here is an exclusive interview for graphMetrix company! Our sales manager Nick Rozaev gave a detailed review to Kai Gilb from graphMetrix on Navigine Indoor Positioning and broached subject of his professional development.

Manufacturing

Using RTLS systems in building

Earlier we have already covered the general topic on RTLS technologies. Now we’d like to discuss in detail using RTLS systems for positioning and navigation inside building objects. At present, many building companies start implementing construction tool tracking systems for locating assets and moving objects in real time. It allows optimizing activity at building sites and increasing the efficiency of construction workers.

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Tracking and managing traffic flows in airports and railway stations

Airports and railway stations need careful airport passenger flow management. Every year traffic flows are growing, which increases time spent in queues and can lead to negative impressions from trips. Constant passenger flow monitoring allows improving the quality of customer service. Using modern navigation systems, it is possible to avoid big queues, minimize crowds of people and increase safety in transport hubs.

Technology

Indoor Positioning and Navigation Systems based on BLE Beacons

For many years the GPS system has been considered the best solution for object location. However, it has limited possibilities especially while moving inside premises, so in the modern world it is being substituted by Bluetooth®. At present Bluetooth® Low Energy is probably one of the most convenient technological solutions for indoor positioning which allows developing effective navigation systems.

Technology

Using Location-Based Services Marketing To Grow Your Business

Location based marketing is a new notion in trading that helps companies to focus on consumers at an individual level – by means of online notifications according to the person’s location. Using contactless marketing, sellers can address customers based on such criteria as proximity to the shop, events, taking place in some city or region, and so on.

Healthcare

Real-Time Location Systems (RTLS) in Healthcare – Comprehensive Guide

Healthcare facilities are bustling environments with countless moving parts – patients, staff, and critical equipment all in constant motion. In such a dynamic setting, knowing the real-time location of people and assets is crucial. That’s precisely what RTLS in healthcare offers: an indoor positioning for hospitals that can track medical equipment, patients, and staff.

Technology

Difference in indoor navigation using Android and iOS devices

Finding a suitable positioning technology is a decisive factor in successful realization of indoor navigation. The most common navigation solutions are Bluetooth Low Energy beacons (BLE) and Wi-Fi. Their implementation does not produce any difficulties and ensures synergies with the geopositional platform for business.

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Using indoor positioning systems for tourism and hotel business

The pandemic, caused by Covid-19, has radically changed our life. Tourism, which requires flexible management of the working environment, hasn’t been left behind. Tourists set higher requirements to the choice of holiday destination, hotels, ways of travelling, and companies, working in the sphere of logistics and hotel business, have to adapt to the existing situation and improve the quality of their service.

Logistics and Warehousing

Boosting Warehouse Efficiency by 20% with Real-Time Tracking Solutions

Our company in cooperation with the manufacturer of intellectual devices MOKOSmart has developed the warehouse tracking system that allows increasing efficiency by 5%!

Technology

What is the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)?

Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is a combination of networks and the industrial equipment related to them, supplemented by software and built-in sensors. The system is intended for gathering and exchanging data and can be controlled automatically without human intervention. Recently IIoT systems have been widely used in many spheres of life, for example, for solving various corporate tasks with the aim of increasing performance efficiency and building innovation models of running business.

Manufacturing

How can staff monitoring help increase security and work efficiency?

The optimization of plant staff performance is one of the main tasks of any plant manager. If each worker performs their daily tasks responsibly and accurately, the company will be able to develop successfully and reach set goals. But how to plan correctly and ensure clear control over performance in such a complicated sphere as industry?

Company news

Joins forces with Ramco and Navigine to help enterprises facilitate safe return to workplace backed by technology

Amid the race to ensure workplace safety following the COVID-19 pandemic, Ramco Systems has joined forces with U.S. based Navigine and Singapore-based Hipla Technologies in enabling technology solutions to monitor and measure safedistancing, thereby facilitating contact tracing at workplace.

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Good collaborations bring good solutions

When there is a platform that provides interactive content for events and an indoor navigation platform, the result can be impressive. By adding Navigine SDK to the core product, developers can significantly increase its functionality and user engagement. GEBS, our partner, presents an example of how it can be done.

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Navigine at CES 2020: moving on with Analog Devices, and the new insights

From January 7th to 10th, 2020, Las Vegas hosted CES 2020. The international consumer electronics show, which we participated for the second time in a row, became our opportunity for growth and development. We were accepted to exhibit at the 4000 sq.ft. stand by Analog Devices, the global leader in the manufacture of integrated circuits. In the center, there was a track with toy cars, RC model vs. self-driving model, so everyone could try to compete against our smart algorithms and show their skill.