Indoor mapping in Jeddah for the port, the airport and busy venues

Jeddah Islamic Port is the Kingdom’s main gateway on the Red Sea and one of the busiest ports in the region, handling a large share of Saudi container trade. Much of what reaches the western region’s shops, hotels and building sites passes through the bonded stores, distributors’ warehouses and cross-docks south of the city first.

For those buildings the map shows the dock doors with their current turn, trailers in yard slots, gate and weighbridge transactions and RFID-tagged pallets at the lane where they were last read — the Eastport demo has 50 doors and 44 yard slots. An alert rule set to “matches for N minutes” on the yard table raises an in-app alert for trailers that have waited too long for a door.

King Abdulaziz International Airport has, alongside its main terminal, a dedicated Hajj Terminal used mainly during the pilgrimage season, and it receives a large share of the Kingdom’s Hajj and Umrah travellers. Demand is uneven: a few weeks of the year bring far more passengers than the rest, many of them older or travelling in large groups.

A terminal map helps the teams who plan those weeks: check-in, security, immigration and reclaim drawn once, with zone crowding, queue throughput and assistance equipment on top. Heatmaps from occupancy sensors show where crowding builds, with heat that stops at walls. Spatial Map shows the data you feed it; it does not replace airport operational, border or crowd-management systems. The Silverbay demo shows the pattern on two levels.

Many visitors move between the airport, hotels and the Haramain High Speed Railway, which links Jeddah with Makkah and Madinah. Hotels and stations are multi-floor buildings where a guest with heavy luggage or a wheelchair needs the lift, not the stairs.

Spatial Map routes across floors through stairs, lifts and escalators and offers a Step-free option alongside Fastest and Other route, with turn-by-turn steps and walking minutes. Routes work on read-only share links, so a QR code in a lobby opens them in the guest’s own language, Arabic or English among six. There is no live blue dot; the guest starts from a chosen point.

Jeddah also runs a busy events calendar: the Jeddah Corniche Circuit hosts the Formula 1 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, and stadiums and exhibition halls in the city host football, concerts and trade events. Each event brings temporary layouts, crews and equipment into a permanent building.

Keep halls, gates and services as permanent shapes and change booth blocks or hospitality areas per event, as in Lakeside Convention Center. An alert rule on the occupancy table using “number of matching items” against a threshold raises an in-app alert when too many zones are over capacity at once. Alerts are shown in the app — bell, toast and Alerts page — and are not sent by email, SMS or push.

Feeding hotels, airline catering and event crowds depends on cold rooms and freezers that stay in range through the hottest months. Spatial Map tints each room by the live reading from your probes, shows door states and held stock, and keeps every change in the row history. A “not updated for N minutes” rule catches a probe that has gone silent before anyone notices the gap. The Polar Pharma demo shows the cold-store pattern; your food-safety procedures stay the formal record.