Indoor mapping and RFID tracking in Istanbul

On the European side, warehouse demand is concentrated in districts such as Hadımköy, Esenyurt and the area around Ambarlı, close to the TEM motorway and the road to Edirne and the European border. On the Asian side, Tuzla and the industrial zones running into Gebze in Kocaeli host logistics centres serving chemicals, FMCG and automotive industries. Many operators run sheds on both sides and move freight between them across the Bosphorus bridges.

Spatial Map keeps each shed as a facility in one workspace, with racks coloured from your WMS stock by bin, RFID-tagged pallets and cartons at the dock doors and forklifts as live markers. Group a client’s sheds on both shores into a solution and give it a read-only link — useful when the client’s team sits in Germany or the Gulf and works in German or Arabic.

Istanbul Airport, north of the city on the European side, replaced Atatürk Airport and is home to one of the world’s largest air-cargo hubs, run by the national carrier. Sabiha Gökçen serves the Asian side. Forwarders’ sheds and bonded stores around both handle e-commerce parcels, pharmaceuticals and perishables in transit between continents.

In a forwarder’s shed, build-up areas, cool rooms and secure cages are drawn on the plan and carry their status; temperature-sensitive shipments sit in the room that holds them, coloured by the latest reading, and an in-app alert fires when a room stays out of range. The Polar Pharma demo shows the cold-room pattern.

Much of Istanbul’s trade with Europe leaves by truck, and goods often wait in a bonded warehouse (antrepo) under customs control before they are cleared or re-exported. Since the Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge opened in the north, heavy goods vehicles crossing between the two sides have been routed over it and the Northern Marmara Motorway rather than through the city.

Spatial Map does not hold customs records or connect to customs systems. What it can show is where held goods physically are: a bonded zone drawn on the plan, coloured by the status your WMS keeps, with RFID pallets read in and out and every movement kept in row history, as in the Eastport Cross-Dock demo.

Istanbul is one of Europe’s largest cities, and fast delivery has filled its edges with fulfilment centres and urban hubs. Pick faces, packing stations, staging lanes and dispatch doors change with every campaign. In Spatial Map the rack grid keeps its locations while zones are redrawn in minutes, and the Crestline Fulfillment demo shows 2,204 rack locations, pick-to-light and packing output on one map. A heatmap of picks weighted by a number field shows where the floor is busiest, one floor at a time.

Istanbul has many large malls, several connected to metro stations and built over multi-level car parks. Visitors want the right exit, the lift to their parking level and a step-free way between them; centre teams want footfall by entrance and service corridors. Wayfinding builds routes across floors through stairs, lifts and escalators with Fastest, Step-free and Other route options, and footfall from your counters shows as a heatmap that stops at walls.

Where location data relates to people, KVKK is the context, and data controllers in Türkiye may need to register with VERBIS, the data controllers’ registry. Rules on transferring personal data abroad were revised in 2024. Your legal advisers decide what applies; most warehouse projects tag pallets, cartons and equipment rather than staff, which keeps personal data out of the map. A data processing agreement is available and the security page explains how data is protected. The interface is not available in Turkish; your own names and labels can be.