October’s Demo Day introduced Agentic AI Search, smarter editing in Pointr Cloud and improvements to accessibility, onboarding and geofencing.
Here’s a quick look at the six updates and what they mean for visitors, map editors and developers.
Watch the full demo and access the slides
Visitors know what they need, but they may not know the name of a destination. Agentic AI Search lets them search the map in their own words.
A request such as “I’m hungry” can return food options, while a follow-up about vegetarian choices helps narrow the results. Search also handles typos and synonyms, groups relevant destinations and supports queries in multiple languages.
During the demo, German, Irish and Japanese queries returned results from English venue content. Destination information stayed in English, while conversation mode also demonstrated translated category labels.
For dietary searches, the demo also showed an AI-assisted results notice asking visitors to double-check options with the menu or venue.
The conversational assistant also demonstrated how it remembers preferences across follow-up questions and considers opening hours, proximity and Featured POIs.
Agentic AI Search is available across Pointr’s iOS, Android and Web SDKs, and through Pointr’s APIs. It is the first feature produced through Pointr’s AI Factory, where AI builds with human guidance and review.
New editing tools in Pointr Cloud reduce the clicks needed to maintain indoor maps.
Multi-feature editing lets editors select several features and update supported shared properties together. In the live demo, Chris applied a gender designation to 14 restroom POIs in one update, rather than editing each individually.
Other improvements include:
These updates make routine map maintenance faster and help teams keep POI information consistent.
Pointr already supported landscape orientation. This update improves how search, categories, POI details, and wayfinding adapt to wider screens.
That helps visitors using a tablet fixed at a hospital information desk or a device mounted on a wheelchair, where rotating the screen may be impractical.
The improvements support the orientation requirement in WCAG 2.1. Blue Dot positioning and heading accuracy remain consistent with portrait mode.
Screen reader support now covers interface text in all 18 supported UI languages, including buttons, menus, and wayfinding cards.
TalkBack and VoiceOver also announce short on-screen messages, such as a floor change, helping visitors hear updates they might otherwise miss.
On Android, wayfinding automatically switches to Accessible mode when a screen reader is active.
Together, these changes make indoor navigation easier to follow with spoken information in the visitor’s preferred supported language.
The updated onboarding flow reduces pop-ups and only shows the system location permission dialog when a visitor agrees to proceed. Visitors who are not ready to share their location can decline.
If location becomes useful later, the SDK can explain how granting access would improve the experience. Visitors can still say no, while a visible red “No Location” indicator shows that location access is off.
For integrations using geofencing with geofence notifications enabled, the notification permission prompt waits until the next time the SDK runs, reducing the number of prompts shown upfront.
Geofencing configuration now centres on two main settings: whether geofencing is enabled and whether positioning is enabled. Related options, such as geofence notifications, sit beneath them, making setup easier for developers.
The SDK also recognises when a visitor reopens the app without leaving a zone, helping avoid another arrival notification for the same visit.
Our team is also working on:
These features are in development, with release dates still to be confirmed.
Watch October Demo Day to see the updates in action. For questions about your project, contact product@pointr.tech.