3D maps and intuitive wayfinding

Event Mapping & Indoor Navigation

Revolutionize attendee and exhibitor experience at your event, conference, trade show, or exhibition with the only AI-powered event mapping and navigation solution

 

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Improve Attendee Experience

  • Make it easy for visitors to find and navigate to booths

  • Make it easy to find amenities (food, restrooms, coat check)

  • Make registration hassle-free with simple directions

  • Provide more information about speaker and panel sessions

  • Send out location-specific messages to showcase nearby exhibits or programming (‘Keynote session will start in 10 minutes’) 

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Add Value for Exhibitors & Event Producers

  • Allow exhibitors to add rich POI data to the map

  • Increase exhibitor visibility for higher booth traffic

  • Custom QR codes for exhibitors to lead attendees to their booth

  • Alleviate event staff responsibility to answer visitor questions

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Pointr vs Other Providers

Other providers have spent years trying to deliver maps and locations for events. Inevitably, they encountered problems: the short turnaround time that events have between setup and going live, the need to make updates and layout changes at short notice, or the lack of flexibility and accuracy within their mapping and location technologies.
 
Pointr is the only vendor to have solved these problems, and is now trusted by the world's largest and most prestigious events and venues to deliver outstanding, scalable, effective indoor maps and wayfinding.

 

Feature

Pointr

 

Others

Maps

First and only AI-powered mapping solution, creating beautiful, interactive maps at scale

 

Time-consuming individually created maps, or non-interactive 2D map images

Indoor positioning

Seamless Blue Dot, accurate to under 3 meters with smooth, multi-level and indoor-outdoor transitions

 

Jumpy Blue Dot that lacks the accuracy needed for indoor wayfinding

Updates

Quickly and easily update map data via our bespoke Pointr Cloud CMS

 

Submit tickets to request updates, incurring delays and losing valuable time with out-of-date maps

Hardware

Hardware-agnostic solution capable of working with pre-existing technology, supported by Pointr's in-house hardware team

 

Pre-determined technology base, often necessitating a lengthy and intrusive hardware installation process

Support

Enterprise-caliber team available for on-site support throughout the event 

 

Outsourced support or no on-site support

End-to-end solution

A full end-to-end solution, with maps as a foundation and layering on accurate, scalable indoor positioning, navigation, analytics, and more

 

Only offer one piece of the puzzle - only maps, or only positioning, for example - and so need to combine multiple vendors

Integrations

Seamless integrations with key event technology providers

 

Limited integration options

 

How can Pointr Enhance Your Events?

Core Features

  • Provide an app-free experience with on-site QR codes or URLs

  • Automatically pull POI data from your databases with our robust APIs

  • Easily adapt to feedback and make last minute changes with our user friendly Pointr Cloud CMS portal

  • See usage statistics in real time 

  • Integrate into kiosks, event apps and websites with our SDKs for iOS, Android and web 

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Advanced Capabilities

  • Analytics: Receive attendee insights in real time (searches, POI interactions, usage statistics, etc) and respond immediately to unsuccessful searches, see what exhibitors are the most sought after and add POI data as needed

  • Geofencing: Specify areas of interest, and send messages when visitors enter or exit a geofenced area

  • Blue Dot: Add indoor positioning to your event with our Blue Dot technology, we can install Bluetooth beacons that detect users’ exact location to utilize dynamic wayfinding

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Solutions for all types of events

Trade Shows

Let your trade show exhibitors put their best foot forward with an advanced mapping CMS that enables them to customize how they appear on your event maps, including their logo, description, and even search synonyms that help to ensure they appear under the right categorization in your map’s digital directory. Monetize your trade show maps by offering premium listings that highlight specific exhibitors, and use cutting-edge event mapping analytics from everything from optimizing your trade show’s layout to better understand your visitors and what they want from the next show.

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Conferences

Typically on a smaller scale than other event types that our mapping and navigation is popular for, conferences nonetheless can derive huge benefits from indoor mapping and navigation systems, particularly those equipped with real-time Blue Dot. Enable attendees to see exactly where they need to go with detailed, interactive conference maps, and empower them to make valuable connections via real-time location sharing with fellow attendees. Combine maps and navigation with push notifications to alert users to a talk starting, with the ability to offer them a route from their current location directly to the room in which it’s taking place.

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Exhibitions

Showcase your exhibition in the best possible light and enhance the visitor experience by introducing a new level of interactivity with exhibition maps and navigation. Let visitors plan their visit in advance via detailed maps, or pick the exhibits they're most keen to visit and then have the navigation system plot the most efficient route for them to take between their chosen points of interest, ensuring they get as much out of their visit as they can.

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Event Venue Mapping

Pointr’s systems aren’t restricted to just event organizers. We work with a number of event venues as well, providing the same world-class solutions as we do to specific events. Event venues can benefit from implementing Pointr’s maps and related solutions and then offering these outstanding experiences to potential exhibitors, conferences, and trade shows that are looking for a venue that can deliver more than a fantastic location. Not only that, but by combining event maps and navigation with analytics, venues can continue to deliver value to their exhibitors far beyond their event itself, with valuable insights into how they can deliver more for their attendees.

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Guide

Why maps matter for events

Curious as to why maps and navigation are must-haves for modern events and trade shows? Read on

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Guide

The Pointr approach to events

Curious as to what your event mapping journey will look like with Pointr? Our guide has you covered

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Case Study

CES 2025 with Eventbase case study

Read how Pointr and Eventbase delivered state-of-the-art digital maps for CES 2025

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