Waymap: Enhancing the Experience for Hotel Guests

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Waymap’s innovative navigation and mapping solution offers a range of benefits to hotels, from seamless guest arrival and effortless hotel navigation, to personalised recommendations and optimised staff efficiency.   Hotels are an essential part of the travel experience, providing accommodation for millions of people worldwide. However, despite significant progress in promoting accessibility in recent years, […]

How Waymap Can Improve Office Spaces

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Fully accessible user design. Simple and accurate turn-by-turn navigation. Waymap is the smart, next-generation solution for indoor office navigation.   The ‘workplace’ is one of the defining features of modern life. This is reflected in popular TV shows like ‘The Office’. The office building is a major part of this modern working experience. All employees, […]

How Waymap Can Benefit Retail Venues

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Waymap’s indoor location technology and fully accessible user design ensures simple and accurate turn-by-turn navigation in all types of store and retail settings. This allows visitors to easily find their way to their favourite stores.   Hundreds of stores. Multiple floors. A busy, fast-moving environment. Whilst for many people a visit to their local retail […]

Why Stop at Step-Free Access?

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We need to go beyond Step-Free Access in order to provide accessible travel to everyone, everywhere. From event spaces, parks and gardens, to transport hubs, public venues are more accessible than ever before. Great strides have been taken over the last couple of decades to make cities more open and easier to navigate, for everyone. […]

Waymap CEO Discusses ‘Technology for All’ at Bloomberg Live Summit

Tom Pey, CEO & Founder, Waymap speaks with Bloomberg’s Amy Thomson at Bloomberg’s Technology Summit

When I founded Waymap, I was inspired by something that Steve Jobs said when he was trying to get the iPhone through at Apple. He said, if we can make this technology work for blind people, then it would work for everybody. And that’s pretty much what we’re doing with Waymap. We designed something that […]

What Does Waymap Mean for Blind People?

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I am the CEO and Founder of Waymap, the world’s most accurate and inclusive navigation app. I have tried to use my lived experience as a blind man to help solve the navigation challenges faced by people with reduced mobility – wherever they live. The current navigation and exploration apps available do not work for […]

Indoor Navigation Technology: A Comparison

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Indoor wayfinding is a key part of improving people’s experience in venues and cities worldwide. However, indoor location and navigation brings with it a unique set of challenges. In the last decade, there have been a growing number of potential technology offerings that seek to solve these challenges. Indoor navigation solutions are all about improving […]

Waymap, an Industry-Leader in Policy & Standards on the World Stage

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Waymap’s navigation approach and app are deeply grounded in research into independent travel for people with disabilities. For years we have led the development of the international and American standards for audio-navigation. By defining how products should work and the ways consumers can interact with them, standards help systems become safer and trustworthy, driving confident […]

Waymap for Your Hospital

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Waymap can revolutionise wayfinding around hospitals for staff and patients. We can do this with a navigation app that works for everyone, including persons with disabilities. An accessible wayfinding solution increases patient satisfaction, boosts team efficiency, reduces missed appointments, and cuts response times to improve health outcomes. Our breakthrough revolutionary algorithm enables the delivery of […]

Signal-Free Location Technology

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At Waymap, we have built a highly accurate location and navigation app that works indoors and outdoors. Other navigation companies specialise in indoor or outdoor directions (with a lot of variation in quality) but Waymap offers a solution that is both higher in quality and more comprehensive than any provided by other companies to date. […]