Find what you need with our smart search, fast and effortlessly
Smart Search
Situm Smart Search makes it easy for users to find locations, services, or points of interest (POIs) inside your venue. Whether it’s a restroom, a meeting room, or a specific shop, users can search with confidence thanks to typo tolerance, intuitive filters, and real-time distance-based sorting. Situm helps visitors locate and reach their destination without frustration.
Perfect for events, airports, hospitals, malls, campuses, or any complex building with many POIs.
Key Features
Discover venues like never before with Situm’s Smart Search. Instantly locate any point of interest using keywords, categories, or even your voice. Designed for speed, accuracy, and accessibility, it transforms search into a seamless experience.
The smartest search engine
With Situm Smarth Search engine, you can instantly search any point of interest across the venue.
- Search by name & content: If you know what you’re looking for: just type its name! If you don’t: type a related keyword and our smart search will retrieve the most relevant results according to each POI content.
- List & Map View: See search results both as a scrollable list and as pins on the map.
- Sorted by Distance: Results are ranked based on proximity (e.g., closest restroom shown first).
- Fuzzy Search: Tolerant of typos and partial words (e.g. “caferia” → “Cafeteria”).
- Voice Input: Fully compatible with voice-to-text keyboard input on iOS and Android.
Intuitive categorization
Thanks to Situm Dashboard, you can categorize POIs so that users find them easily:
- POI Categorization: Organize POIs by categories and subcategories (e.g., Food > Cafeteria).
- Multi-Category Support: A single POI can belong to multiple categories, ensuring maximum flexibility (e.g., “Accessible Bathroom” under “Restrooms” and “Accessible Services”).
- Category Filters: Users can tap to filter results by category or subcategory, visualizing them on a scrollable list (sorted by distance) or highlighted on a map.
Easy to set up
Our CMS, Situm Dashboard, allows you to easily create Points of Interest and associate them with categories & subcategories. You’ll be able to set up:
- POI name and content, including rich multimedia information (text, images, videos…).
- POI category & subcategory, so users can easily filter the results and find what they’re looking for.
- POI icons, for a fully customized experience, ensuring the visual representation of the POI fully captures it’s meaning.
- POI configurations, such as whether they should be shown on the map, on the search results, whether they should be highlighted with priority over other POIs, etc.
Easy Integration
Just like other Situm features, Situm Smart Search is seamlessly embedded in your app.
- REST API support: Not only can you create your POIs using Situm CMS: you can also create & edit them using our REST APIs for easy integration with any software.
- Mobile SDK support: Android native, iOS native, React Native, Flutter, Cordova and Capacitor are fully supported.
- Works offline: Once downloaded, AR assets work without internet.
Smart Search Benefits
Situm Smart Search transform frustration into joy by allowing your users to quickly find what they’re looking for.
- Enhance visibility: Allow your users to easily discover everything your venue has to offer.
- Faster Navigation: Helps users quickly find what they need, even with spelling mistakes or vague terms.
- Better Experience: Clean, categorized interface enhances user satisfaction and confidence.
- Accessible for All: Voice support, text scaling, and clean filters make the feature inclusive.
- Dynamic & Scalable: Easily manage thousands of POIs and link to existing information systems.
Smart Search FAQs
Yes. Smart Search allows you to find POIs both by their exact name and by related keywords contained in their description.
Yes. The search engine uses fuzzy matching technology to handle minor spelling errors and partial word searches.
Absolutely. Users can easily filter results by selecting categories and subcategories such as “Food” or “Accessible Services”.
Yes. A single POI can be assigned to multiple categories to maximize visibility and flexibility (e.g., an accessible restroom appearing under “Restrooms” and “Accessible Services”).
Yes. Search results are shown both as a scrollable list and visually as pins on the map, sorted by proximity.
Yes. Users can use voice-to-text input on both iOS and Android devices to perform searches.
Yes. You can configure POI names, descriptions, icons, images, videos, and other metadata easily through Situm Dashboard or via our APIs.
Yes. Once the data is downloaded to the device, users can search POIs without needing an internet connection.
Definitely. It can be integrated using our native Android/iOS SDKs, or through React Native, Flutter, Cordova, and Capacitor frameworks.