Indoor mapping and RFID tracking software for Canada

The United States is by far Canada’s largest trading partner, and much of that trade moves by truck across land crossings such as the Ambassador Bridge between Windsor and Detroit. Cross-docks and transload warehouses on both sides of the border sort freight against customs paperwork, appointment windows and departure times.

Spatial Map puts that sorting on the site plan: dock doors coloured by status, trailers by yard slot, RFID-tagged pallets read at each door and staged in the right lane. In the Eastport Cross-Dock demo, a pallet in the wrong lane and short loads before cut-off are visible in place. Companies that run sites in both countries can keep them in one workspace and group them into solutions; see also our USA page.

The Greater Toronto Area, and Peel Region in particular, is the country’s largest concentration of distribution centres, serving national retailers, e-commerce and third-party logistics customers along the Highway 401 corridor. Many of these buildings are multi-client, with a WMS that knows the stock and a floor team that still walks the aisles to find it.

Spatial Map colours each rack location from the WMS stock by bin and shows forklifts and pickers’ equipment as live markers. The Crestline Fulfillment demo has 20 racks and 2,204 rack locations with pick-to-light, packing and a trailer yard. Read-only share links let each client see only the floors and layers you choose, without an account.

The Port of Vancouver is Canada’s largest port and its main gateway for trade with Asia, while the Port of Montreal serves Atlantic trade with Europe and the markets of Quebec and Ontario. Containers are transloaded into domestic trailers and rail cars at warehouses near both, then moved inland across very long distances.

Because Spatial Map runs in the browser, a team in Calgary or Halifax can open the same live map of a Vancouver transload warehouse as the people on its floor, with history playback for what happened on the night shift.

Canadian winters change how a warehouse runs. Dock doors left open cost heat and can expose products that must not freeze — beverages, paints, some chemicals and many pharmaceuticals — while unheated zones, yard trailers and cross-dock floors behave very differently from the rooms around them.

With door sensors and temperature probes reporting through your gateway, Spatial Map shows each door open or closed and colours each zone by its reading, so a supervisor sees at a glance which door has been open too long or which corner of the building is running cold. It shows the state on the map and in reports; it does not send notifications.

Food businesses work under the Safe Food for Canadians Regulations, and pharmaceutical warehouses under Health Canada’s requirements for storage and distribution. Spatial Map does not make anyone compliant; it makes the physical state of a cold store visible — rooms and freezers coloured by live temperature, doors, held pallets — with a history your QA team can replay and export. The Polar Pharma demo shows cold rooms, freezers and 1,140 rack locations.

The app is available in French as well as English, and each user picks their own language, so a team in Laval and a head office in Toronto can work on the same facility. Quebec’s Charter of the French Language sets expectations for French in the workplace, including for the tools employees use; how it applies to your organization is for your advisers to assess. Our services team also works in French — see our French services page.

PIPEDA, and in Quebec its own private-sector privacy law, are the context when location data relates to people. Most projects tag pallets, trailers and equipment rather than staff. A data processing agreement is available and the security page describes how data is protected.