Indoor mapping and RFID tracking software for Thailand

The Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) covers three provinces on the eastern seaboard — Chachoengsao, Chonburi and Rayong — and is the government’s special development zone for advanced manufacturing, logistics and related industries. It builds on decades of industrial estates along the coast, including the large petrochemical estate at Map Ta Phut in Rayong.

A manufacturer there often runs several buildings — a plant, a parts warehouse, a finished-goods store — on one estate or across two. Spatial Map keeps them in one workspace, grouped into named solutions, with each building’s floors stacked in 3D and its own data links. A manager at head office in Bangkok sees the same live maps as the people on the floor.

Thailand has long been one of Southeast Asia’s main vehicle-manufacturing bases, and its pick-up trucks and passenger cars are exported widely; in recent years electric-vehicle assembly has been added alongside. Every line depends on parts arriving in sequence, in returnable racks and containers that are expensive and easy to lose between supplier, warehouse and line side.

Tag the racks and containers with on-metal RFID tags and let your reader software post the reads; Spatial Map shows each one at its last read point, counts empties per zone and replays where a missing rack went. An alert rule on the “number of matching items” — for example, full racks at line side below a threshold — is checked every 15 seconds and raised in the app with Show on map. The Summit Assembly demo shows lines, workstations, andon calls and 351 RFID work-in-progress carriers.

Thailand has a long-established electronics industry, from hard-disk-drive components to circuit boards, and new electronics plants have been reported opening in the EEC in recent years. Much of what these plants and the car makers ship leaves through Laem Chabang in Chonburi, the country’s largest container port and its main gateway for vehicle exports.

Around the port sit container yards, free-zone warehouses and cross-docks. Spatial Map draws their dock doors, yard slots and staging lanes and colours them from your yard or WMS data, with RFID pallets followed door to door; the Eastport Cross-Dock demo shows 50 dock doors, 44 yard slots and 1,180 RFID pallets. Secure stores for high-value components follow the Northgate Electronics pattern.

Bangkok is known for very large, multi-level shopping malls, with dense clusters in districts such as Siam and Ratchaprasong, linked to the BTS Skytrain. For their operators and tenants the map has two jobs: stock and loss prevention for the retailers, and routes, crowding and services for the people walking through.

Spatial Map builds wayfinding routes across floors through stairs, lifts and escalators, with Fastest, Step-free and Other route options, turn-by-turn steps and walking minutes; there is no live blue dot for the visitor. Footfall or occupancy from your counters can be drawn as a heatmap, one floor at a time, and the Retail Mart demo shows a three-floor store with 85 RFID readers at doors, escalators and lifts.

The interface is not available in Thai; it ships in English, Chinese, Spanish, French, German and Arabic, and each user picks their own. Shop names, zone names and report titles appear in Thai script exactly as you write them. For UHF RFID, GS1’s unofficial overview of UHF allocations lists 920–925 MHz for Thailand, with a licence needed above 0.5 W; confirm the band and power for your readers with your supplier and the NBTC.

Thailand’s Personal Data Protection Act B.E. 2562 (2019), fully in force since June 2022, is the context where location data relates to people; your legal advisers decide what applies, and most plant and port projects tag racks, pallets and parts rather than staff. A data processing agreement is available and the security page describes how data is protected.