Table of Contents
This section summarizes the most important Situm Platform features. It will be divided in the following sections:
- Maps. Show your 2D/3D venue floorplans in an interactive viewer, decorate them with 3D ornamental objects, display POI rich information (text, images, videos…) and manage everything from an intuitive CMS.
- Wayfinding. Allow visitors to find the places they’re looking for and provide turn-by-turn navigation to them.
- Positioning. Deliver highly accurate indoor & outdoor geolocation with minimal infrastructure in your mobile apps.
- Analytics. Extract value from geolocation KPIs: most searched POIs, most popular routes, most visited areas, heatmaps, trajectories…
- Integration. Bring all these feature to websites, kiosks and mobile apps, thanks to our REST APIs, Web SDKs and Mobile SDKs (Android, iOS, Flutter, React Native, Cordova, Capacitor).
Maps #
Situm allows to easily show the floorplans of your venue in mobile apps, websites and kiosks. The most relevant features are:
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Interactive 2D/3D Maps | – Show your venue cartography in several 2D/3D formats: regular images, high-res tiles, GeoJSON and IMDF. – Allow visitors to interact with the map (zoom-in, rotate…), search points of interest, see their information… – Compatible with mobile apps, websites and kiosks. |
| 3D objects | – Display 3D objects, from regular ornamental elements (e.g. elevators, stairs, plants…) to others specifically tailored for your venue (planes in airports, sculptures in museums, animals in a zoo…). – Compatible formats: GLTF, GLB |
| Cartography CMS | – Manage your building cartography, such as floorplans, points of interest, navigation routes and geofences. – Configure the venue paths and their type (shortest, wheelchair friendly, private/public, etc.) through which visitors will be guided. – Associate rich information to POIs such as text descriptions, images, videos, etc. – Manage POI categories and customize their icons |
| UI personalization | Fully adapt the UI to your needs and look and feel: – Show your logo – Configure an style theme: colors of buttons, icons, and other elements, roundness of buttons / widgets, etc. – POI styles: font color, highlighted aura style, name font size, etc. – Route styles: color of the route and the route animation, size of route dots, spacing between route dots, etc. – Use your custom fonts – Show/hide UI widgets – Manage camera view: maximum and minimum allowed zoom level, the initial perspective of your venue, etc. … |
| Floorplan personalization | – Easily apply styles to your GeoJSON/IMDF maps, such as the color of each polygon, extrusion height, transparency, separation between polygons, etc. – Customize the style of the background world map over which your venue map will be represented. |
| Works offline | Cartography is downloaded and stored locally on the device, so everything keeps working even if no internet connection is available. |
| VIP POIs | – You can highlight some POIs over others. – An intelligent algorithm decides (based on your preferences) which POIs to show at each zoom level to ensure a pleasant view of your venue. – You can customize several aspects of this experience, such as the density of POIs allowed or the importance of each POI. |
| Favorite POIs | Visitors may store their favorite POIs to easily find them later |
| Multi-language and RTL compatible | – 20 languages available (and increasing!): arabic, bulgarian, catalan, german, english, spanish, euskera, farsi (persian), frech, hebrew, hungarian, italian, japanese, dutch, polish, portuguese, turkish, vietnamese, galician and chinese (traditional). – Support for Right-To-Left languages and UIs. – On-demand addition of new languages within 48 hours. |
| Accessible | Fully adapted to users with functional diversity: – High-contrast UI – Screen reader compatibility (Talkback/VoiceOver) – Wheelchair friendly routes – Voice turn-by-turn indications – Multilingual support – Support for custom-fonts (e.g. dyslexia-friendly fonts) – Intuitive UI for all ages and user needs, well adapted or different phone screens, font sizes, etc. – Works offline or with poor internet connectivity |
| No map? No problem! | We also help you if you want to digitize your maps and/or convert their format (e.g. from PDF or CAD to GeoJSON). Contact with: support@situm.com |
Wayfinding #
On top of showing maps, Situm allows visitors to search their favorite POIs and providing turn-by-turn directions. The most relevant features are:
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Static and dynamic navigation | – In web browsers and kiosks we provide POI-to-POI. – In mobile apps there’s indoor/outdoor positioning, so we can also provide real-time navigation. – Routes are displayed on top of the floorplan and turn-by-turn indications are also provided. |
| Shortest, wheelchair friendly, healthy and custom-routes | Several types of routes are available: – Shortest: fastest route between origin and destination – Wheelchair friendly: avoids non-accessible parts of the venue (e.g. stairs) – Healthy: prioritizes using stairs over elevators – Custom-routes: you may also assign custom tags to different wayfinding paths and compute routes that include/exclude those tags (e.g. “private” vs “public” routes) |
| Turn-by-turn intelligent indications | Navigation is complemented by a set of indications (“turn right”, “Advance 100 meters until the coffee shop and then turn left”, etc.) so the user knows where to go and how to get there. |
| Automatic re-routing | When the user walks away from the current route, a new one is computed automatically. |
| Intelligent POI search with category filtering | – Users can easily find the POIs they’re looking for, either by typing on a search bar or filtering by POI category/subcategory. – An intelligent algorithm (robust to typos!) suggests the most relevant results based both on the POI names and descriptions. – Closest relevant POIs are shown first, indicating the distance and estimated walking time to each result. |
| Customizable wayfinding experience | Several aspects of the wayfinding experience can be personalized: – Distance to reach destination. – Separation from the route to re-compute it. – Relevant POIs that will be mentioned in the indications. … |
| Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA) | ETA to each destination is always shown, and updated dynamically when indoor positioning is available, as the user approaches the destination. |
| Find my car | Visitors can mark where they’ve parked their car, so they can easily find it on the map or using the POI search bar. |
| Kiosk mode | On kiosks, all routes are computed from the kiosk location automatically. Also, a “You’re here” sign is shown to help users locate themselves on the venue. |
| Geofencing | – Easily detect when an user enters/exits a geofence. – This allows you to greet him when entering the venue, to show her a coupon (this must be done by your app), build gamification flows… |
| QR sharing | – Deploy QR codes in strategic places: visitors will be able to open them, view the maps and never get lost again. – After computing a route on a kiosk, visitors can catch it and continue in their mobile phone |
Accessibility #
Situm offers an accessible platform for all users:
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| High Contrast UI | Situm’s UI supports high-contrast modes to ensure visibility for users with vision impairments. |
| Screen Reader Compatibility | Situm is fully compatible with mobile phone screen readers, offering clear navigation prompts. |
| Wheelchair friendly routes | Situm calculates routes that avoid stairs and other obstacles, ensuring accessibility for wheelchair users. |
| Voice turn-by-turn indications | Situm provides spoken directions for users who prefer or need audio guidance. |
| Multilingual support | The platform supports over 20 languages, including right-to-left languages like Arabic. |
| Custom fonts | Situm allows the use of custom fonts, including dyslexia-friendly options for enhanced readability. |
| Intuitive UI | The platform adapts to different devices and screen sizes, catering to users of all ages and abilities. |
| Works offline | Maps and routes can be used even without an internet connection, ensuring reliability for all users. |
Positioning #
Situm complements maps and wayfinding with a highly accurate indoor & outdoor positioning service. The most relevant features are:
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Indoor & outdoor geolocation for Android & iOS | Positioning works both indoors & outdoors with smooth indoor-outdoor transitions. |
| High accuracy with minimal infrastructure | – Average accuracy from 1-5 meters with a minimal number of beacons. – No beacons required for Android tracking apps (WiFi required in the venue). – Outdoor geolocation does not need any infrastructure. |
| Automatic floor detection | The floor where the user is or has transitioned to is automatically detected within seconds |
| 3D orientation estimation & AR compatible | Full orientation (yaw, pitch, roll) is provided, enhancing the accuracy of AR apps |
| Works offline | All positioning computing is performed in the smartphone, with no need to continuously access the internet. |
| Battle tested for tracking | – Able to work continuously when the smartphone is on the pocket, generating 1 location per second for geolocation analytics. – Able to store geolocation data locally to upload it to the cloud when internet connection is available. |
| Easy to deploy | Thanks to our app Situm Mapping Tool, configuring a new venue is just a matter of walking around it, pinpointing where you are from time to time (fingerprinting). |
Analytics #
Finally, Situm can store the computed geolocations and user interactions to provide analytics and KPIs. The most relevant features are:
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Know your visitors | Know your users habits: most search POIs, preferred routes, most visited areas, etc. |
| Heatmaps | See at a glance the most visited places on top of the maps. |
| Trajectories | Know exactly how an user has moved throughout the venue. |
| Stay times | Know how much time each user (or all of them aggregated) spends in each area of the venue and the number of times they’ve been in each of them. |
| Patrol compliance | – Manage the patrols or work rounds that your personnel needs to perform. – Monitor & demonstrate compliance of KPIs. |
| BI friendly APIs | All the analytics can be integrated with your own software via REST APIs, as well as with Business Intelligence tools such as PowerBI or Tableau. |
| On-demand KPIs | Don’t you see your KPI? We can generate tailored geoanalytics for you! |
Integration #
Maps, wayfinding, positioning and analytics. Everything can be easily integrated with our mobile and web SDKs. The most relevant features are:
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Visual Mobile SDKs | – Bring maps, wayfinding and geolocation to your Android & iOS apps – Include a highly customizable out-of-the-box map visualization and wayfinding user interface in a few lines of code – Many platforms supported: Android (native), iOS (native), React Native, Flutter, Cordova, Capacitor. – Don’t you see your platform? No problem, just wrap the Android/iOS native SDKs and you’ll be ready to go |
| Web SDKs & REST APIs | – Copy & paste an iframe and you’ll have our Map Viewer in your kiosk or website – Interact with it using our PostMessage API – Integrate cartography & geodata using our REST APIs and Javascript SDK |
| BI friendly | Full compatibility with your favorite Business Intelligence tool thanks to our REST APIs |
