RFID and indoor mapping in Mumbai, from Nhava Sheva to Bhiwandi

Jawaharlal Nehru Port Authority (JNPA) at Nhava Sheva, across the harbour from the city, is one of India’s largest container ports, and the gateway for much of western India’s trade. Around it, in Uran and along the roads to Panvel, sit container freight stations, empty-container yards and warehouses in the port’s special economic zone, where import boxes are de-stuffed and export cargo is consolidated against vessel cut-offs.

A freight station on the map has dock doors, a stacking yard and examination bays, each coloured from your terminal or WMS data. RFID-tagged pallets read at the doors show what came out of which container; a pallet staged in the wrong lane stands out before the truck leaves. The Eastport demo shows that on one site. Spatial Map does not connect to the port’s systems or customs; it shows what your own reads say.

Bhiwandi, in Thane district north-east of the city, grew into one of India’s largest warehousing clusters because it sits between JNPA, the Mumbai market and the highways inland. It mixes old single-storey godowns, often with no usable plan, with newer Grade-A parks run by 3PLs for several clients at once.

For the older godowns, a measured sketch or a photographed plan is enough to start, and AI Map drafts racks and walls from it for you to check. For the multi-client parks, each client’s zone is an area you redraw when contracts change, stock is coloured by client from a WMS field, and each client gets a read-only link to its own floors. Warehouse indoor mapping covers the general case.

Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (BOM) has long been one of India’s busiest, squeezed into the middle of the city. Navi Mumbai International Airport, across the harbour, began commercial flights on 25 December 2025, so ground handlers, cargo agents and retail tenants now work across two airports that are still finding their rhythm together.

Each terminal, cargo shed or lounge is its own facility, grouped into one solution for teams that cover both airports. The Silverbay demo shows a terminal with bag tags read from bag drop to the carousel and zones coloured by crowding, and routes that cross floors by lift, escalator or stairs.

SEEPZ in Andheri East, a special economic zone set up for electronics and gem and jewellery exports, is home to many jewellery manufacturing units. Gold, stones and finished pieces move between the vault, workbenches, quality control and the despatch desk, and every movement has to be accounted for at the end of the shift.

Trays and boxes tagged with RFID and read at each room door show exactly where stock went; the History player replays a tray’s path for an investigation. The Northgate demo shows the same pattern for electronics: 863 units followed reader by reader through the cage and vault. Your vault access control and CCTV stay in charge of security.

The south-west monsoon brings Mumbai very heavy rain from around June to September, and low-lying warehouses and basements can take in water. Cartons stacked on the floor, paper-based packaging and electronics are the first casualties.

Water-leak and humidity sensors placed on the plan turn that risk into something visible: an alert rule fires in the app when a leak sensor reports water, the map shows where, and a humidity heatmap shows which aisles stay damp after the rain stops. The environmental sensors example shows the setup.