Indoor-Outdoor Navigation Solution for Diverse Locations

WAI 360 is an advanced, hardware-lite indoor-outdoor navigation solution designed for complex environments such as malls, hospitals, and educational campuses. It offers a seamless and intuitive wayfinding experience enhanced by Augmented Reality (AR) and powered by visual and acoustic positioning technologies.

  • Seamless Indoor-Outdoor Navigation using visual positioning system (VPS)
  • Augmented Reality (AR) Path Guidance for intuitive, real-time directions
  • Spatial Annotation to label Points of Interest (POI) in the physical environment

  • Unified Coordinate System across indoor and outdoor environments

  • Adaptive Pathing Algorithm that adjusts to environmental changes

  • Optimized for Complex Spaces such as hospitals, malls, airports, and metro stations

Users may easily navigate from outdoor transportation nodes to indoor destinations across numerous floors and buildings with WAI 360’s seamless navigation experience. It locates users with a single smartphone image using sophisticated visual positioning, which removes the need for extra gear and lowers deployment costs. The system has dynamic 2.5D and 3D maps that clearly depict real-world layouts, and Augmented Reality overlays improve user interaction and make navigation easier. Additionally, WAI 360 offers soundwave-based spatial location, which is perfect for large indoor spaces because it provides great accuracy (up to 1 meter) without the need for network wires. It has strong API interface with third-party systems, like robotics and kiosks, for complete flexibility, making it a flexible option for smart environments.

Challenges

Traditional GPS systems may be unreliable or unavailable in indoor environments, making them unsuitable for places like hospitals, metro stations, airports, and shopping malls. These complex settings often cause navigation difficulties, leading to a poor user experience. Additionally, the lack of intelligent spatial visualization—such as clear POI markers, directional guidance, or contextual scene labeling—further degrades navigation effectiveness and user confidence.

Our Solution

WAI 360 addresses these challenges through a proprietary Visual Positioning System (VPS) that enables seamless indoor-outdoor navigation under a unified coordinate framework. The system integrates Augmented Reality (AR) visualization with real-time path guidance and Point of Interest (POI) annotations, offering users a more intuitive and interactive navigation experience. Designed to be adaptive to dynamic environments, the solution delivers high accuracy positioning with a typical precision of approximately one meter.

Benefits

This approach ensures reliable indoor positioning, significantly improving the user’s ability to navigate through complex facilities with confidence. It enhances the overall experience by reducing confusion and enabling intelligent spatial awareness through interactive visual elements and real-time guidance.

Applications

The solution is ideal for deployment in large and complex environments such as hospitals, airports, metro stations, and shopping malls. It is already in use by organizations like National Healthcare Group (NHG), helping to streamline navigation within medical campuses and reduce the burden on staff for wayfinding assistance.