Maps
Insights, guides, and news from Purple about maps.

Intelligent Healthcare: How real-time location services benefit patient experiences and boost hospital efficiency
95% of hospitals are planning to increase their utilization of real-time locating technology. By implementing additional solutions, healthcare facilities will

Ochsner Health Selects Purple Digital Wayfinding System to Enrich Patient, Visitor, and Staff Experience
Ochsner Health has selected Purple's Digital Wayfinding solution to be integrated into their flagship hospital, Ochsner Medical Center, located at 1514 Jefferso

What are Indoor Location Services? Updated for 2023
Indoor location services allow for the tracking of people and objects within a set space through the combination of hardware and software technologies.

Digital Wayfinding - One small step for the NHS but a big step for patient and staff empowerment by Mike Farrar
Whilst digital wayfinding may not as yet be common parlance in the NHS, it may be that its emergence in the coming years heralds a mindset shift of sizeable pro

Croydon Health Services NHS Trust launches CHS Maps to benefit patient experience
Croydon Health Services NHS Trust has revolutionized its hospital signage by launching the country's first interactive mapping service.

Why VCU Health chose Purple Wayfinding to improve patient and visitor experiences
Following an international RFP search, in July of 2021 VCU Health System chose Purple to implement a wayfinding solution on its growing downtown medical campus

Location Analytics & Services: How they can increase revenue
The first commercial satnav was released in 1990 as a revolutionary built-in feature for the Mazda Eunos Cosmo, and yet in 2021 we can order an Uber through a

Automating your visitor count, achieving 98% people counting accuracy
Manually counting people in and out is an inefficient way to collect numbers of visitors, in addition to this, many venues are having to hire additional members

The role of mobile wayfinding apps on College Campuses
What is Campus Wayfinding Campus wayfinding is a system designed to help users navigate campus environments. It's a solution for students, faculty, and visitors

The History of Wayfinding
Find out how it all started, what solutions are currently revolutionizing physical spaces, and what to prepare for in the future. Wayfinding, albeit in it

How wayfinding technology could reduce average waiting times and wasted spend in the NHS
Hospitals are notoriously difficult to navigate around, all corridors seem near-identical, every door leads to somewhere you're sure you've just been 3 minutes

Wayfinding Technology - What is it?
Wayfinding is defined as information that assists with guiding people in a physical environment or enhancing their experience within it, you know the signs they

5 interesting uses for location technology
Location based love Proximity based social networking is becoming the norm and there has recently been a shift towards app development to help us to widen our
WiFi or beacons for location based services?
Location based services are now the norm. From sat navs to google maps on our phone, we all understand that our devices can communicate with satellites or other

WiFi presence analytics explained
Presence Analytics seen using WiFi Analytics reporting bridges the gap between Google Analytics and the real world, offering real-time data and reporting using
Meraki launches presence analytics API
As a Meraki Technology Partner we were very excited when we got hold of the presence API several weeks ago. This is something we have been doing with our



