Indoor mapping and RFID tracking software for France

Île-de-France is the country’s largest logistics market, with warehouses ringed around Paris and its airports. The Seine axis links the capital with the ports of Rouen and Le Havre — now run together with the Paris river ports as HAROPA — and Le Havre is France’s largest container port. River barges, rail and trucks carry imports inland to distribution centres that serve stores and e-commerce customers across the north of the country. In the south, Marseille-Fos is France’s main Mediterranean gateway, and the Rhône corridor carries goods north towards Lyon, another major logistics hub.

For a distribution centre on either axis the questions are concrete: which dock door the container from the port is at, what is still in the yard before the evening departures, which rack locations are blocked or empty. Spatial Map draws dock doors, yard slots, staging lanes and racks on your site plan and colours them from your WMS and RFID data. The Eastport Cross-Dock demo shows 50 dock doors, 44 yard slots and 1,180 RFID pallets on one live map.

South of Paris, the Rungis International Market is one of the largest wholesale fresh-food markets in the world, and the wholesalers, cold stores and distributors around it supply restaurants and shops across the region overnight. Fish, meat, dairy, fruit and vegetables pass through chilled rooms, freezers and refrigerated docks within hours, and a door left open or a cold room drifting out of range matters before the morning delivery round, not after it.

Spatial Map colours each cold room, freezer and reefer dock by the live reading from your probes, shows doors open or closed and pallets on hold, and keeps every change in row history so a shift lead can replay the night. Your HACCP plan and food-safety procedures remain the record; the map makes the state of the building visible to the people on shift. The Polar Pharma demo shows the same pattern with temperature zones, cold-room doors and reefer docks.

Toulouse and the wider Occitanie region are the centre of France’s aerospace industry, with final assembly lines, a dense network of suppliers and the logistics that connects them; the industry extends along the Atlantic towards Bordeaux. Parts are high-value, traceability matters, and one missing component, kit or tool can hold up a station.

Spatial Map maps assembly halls, kitting areas, tool cribs and stores on the real layout. RFID reads on kits and carriers, BLE positions of tooling and ground equipment from your RTLS engine, and work-order status from your MES appear as live markers and coloured stations. The Summit Assembly demo shows lines, WIP carriers and 867 rack locations; Northgate Electronics shows a secure store for high-value components with access points and choke-point counters.

French luxury houses, perfume and cosmetics producers and large retailers share one problem: many items of high value moving between workshops, central warehouses, flagship stores and department stores. Item-level RFID is common in fashion and increasingly used in other categories, and multi-floor stores in Paris and other cities add escalators, lifts and stockrooms to the picture.

Spatial Map places every reader on the store or warehouse plan and shows reads as they arrive: which tagged item passed which door, what moved from the stockroom to the sales floor, which department is running low. The Retail Mart demo has 85 RFID readers at doors, escalators and lifts over three floors, plus fridge and freezer sensors for a food hall. Spatial Map shows what happened on the map and in reports; it does not sound alarms at the exit.

Under the GDPR, location data that can be linked to an employee is personal data. The CNIL, France’s data protection authority, has published guidance on the geolocation of employees: it should serve a defined, legitimate purpose, staff must be informed, and it should stay proportionate — continuous tracking of employees is generally treated as excessive. Under the Labour Code, the social and economic committee (CSE) is generally informed and consulted before tools that can monitor employees’ activity are introduced. Your legal advisers decide what applies to your project.

That is why most French projects start with assets — pallets, kits, roll cages, tools, tagged stock — rather than people. Spatial Map only shows the data you send it, the four roles (Owner, Admin, Editor, Viewer) limit who sees a facility, and share links expose only the layers and floors you choose. A data processing agreement is available, and the security page explains how data is protected.

The app is available in French, alongside English, German, Spanish, Arabic and Chinese, and each user picks their own language: a shift supervisor in Normandy can work in French while a group supply-chain team opens the same facility in English. Room names, rack codes and report titles stay exactly as you write them, accents included, on the map and in exported PDF and Excel reports.

Spatial Map is sold online at the same USD price worldwide, and our team works with customers in France remotely, by video call and through the contact form. For multi-site rollouts the services team digitises floor plans and connects your data as a fixed-price custom service, in French or English.