What is office wayfinding?

Office wayfinding is a navigational tool, overlaid on an office map, which helps to guide users from one point to another within an indoor office environment. The challenge of a successful office wayfinding system is that it needs to incorporate numerous obstacles, including multiple floor transitions, indoor-to-outdoor environments, and more.

What are office maps?

Office maps are interactive digitizations of an office floorplan. Different office maps have different levels of detail, which have a significant impact on the usability of the maps. Maps with too much detail (for example, the inclusion of potted plants) can become confusing, while those with not enough detail (only showing structural features and excluding features such as desks and chairs) may have limited use for everyday users.

Office Maps and Wayfinding

Office Maps

Modern offices and corporate campuses are getting bigger and more complex every year. This means that for staff and visitors alike, seemingly simple tasks like finding their way to a particular location or arranging a meeting can become time-consuming. Recent surveys report that 70% of workers on corporate campuses waste up to 15 minutes looking for a space to meet.

Without question, one of the critical pieces of infrastructure for a modern smart workplace is office maps. Maps are the foundation upon which all additional indoor location functionality - including positioning, navigation and geofencing - is based, and can also be relied upon as a standalone feature of any workplace app.

Office maps can help new starters and guests navigate large offices, help colleagues find one another quickly, and can help manage a facility's energy use and occupancy levels.

Pointr's state-of-the-art indoor mapping system can create beautiful, intuitive, interactive maps that fit seamlessly into your workplace app via our SDK. Our AI-enhanced MapScale® technology is capable of creating and updating hundreds of maps in minutes, making us an ideal workplace partner for those looking to digitize hundreds or thousands of venues regularly.


Indoor-outdoor wayfinding	1 - 3 m accuracy	Process 2,000 CAD files in a day

Office Wayfinding

The growing ubiquity of map apps in everyday life has conditioned users to expect more from maps than a simple visual. One of the most common expectations for modern mapping systems - whether indoor or outdoor - is that the map will be wayfinding-enabled.

Even the best designed and easily comprehensible map can be challenging to use at times, particularly when the map depicts a complex indoor environment such as an office. Asymmetrical layouts, vast amounts of detail, campuses that span both indoor and outdoors, and multiple floors all combine to make picking the most efficient route from one point to the next a challenge for users.

With smart and dynamic indoor navigation overlaid, however, the map becomes an invaluable piece of time-saving and collaboration-encouraging technology. Colleagues can share their location with each other and find the quickest route to meet, while guests and employees can be routed to the nearest available desk or meeting room.

Pointr's smart in-office wayfinding technology, twinned with our outstanding mapping abilities, make us the top choice for Fortune 100 companies.


Desk Booking	Meeting Room Booking	Real-time proximity notifications

Workplace Analytics

Offering state-of-the-art office maps and in-office navigation has the knock-on effect of generating informative data about how your office real estate is being utilized.

Increasingly, companies are learning of the importance of analyzing their workplace via analytics to aid them in maximizing their space, improving productivity, and saving money in future real estate decisions.

Workplace analytics from a Pointr installation can be used to generate heatmaps to identify over- or under-utilized areas of an office, trigger occupancy based sensors (such as turning lighting or HVAC systems off when an area is unoccupied), and engender a better understanding of how a workplace is being used in general.

We appreciate that when it comes to introducing technology into the workplace, data privacy and security are paramount for both employers and staff. Thankfully, Pointr has both bases covered.

Pointr’s solutions are ISO compliant. Having built our Deep Location® technology from the ground up, we know exactly what's gone into it, and have ensured that our customers are fully in control of their data. Data is secured (using services like Microsoft Azure), encrypted, and is not shared with external entities or companies.

We also anonymize user data, meaning that by default, our indoor positioning platform offers no user tracking or snooping. Real-time location information is only available as it happens to the user.


ISO and GDPR compliant	Anonymized user data	All data stored client-side

Precision accuracy

Pointr's indoor positioning platform for the workplace is highly reliable and offers Blue Dot accuracy of 1 - 3 m. There is a no better option to enable pinpoint navigational accuracy in your workplace.

Workplaces using Pointr’s indoor wayfinding technology have the best possible platform to support desk booking and meeting room allocation services.

Scalable performance

Pointr's solution is designed to fit your needs. Whether you’re in the market for a full turn-key solution or simply want to add Pointr's solution to an existing app, with Pointr you only integrate what you need.

With Pointr's revolutionary MapScale® product, we are able to map thousands of office locations in minutes, meaning you'll never need to search elsewhere when you’re looking to scale up - way up.

The #1 choice for Fortune 100s

Pointr solutions are trusted by some of the world's biggest and most reputable workplaces and commercial real estate companies.

The likes of Microsoft, Honeywell, and CBRE have put their faith in us to deliver best-in-class indoor positioning for their workplaces while ensuring all data is kept completely safe.

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