Indoor mapping and RFID tracking software for the UK

Retailers, grocers and 3PLs place their national distribution centres in the Midlands, along the M1 and M6, because most of the population is within a few hours’ drive. The buildings are large, often multi-client, and run around the clock: inbound containers from the ports, rack and pick faces, value-added services, and outbound trailers to stores and parcel hubs.

Spatial Map gives each of them one live map: rack locations coloured by stock or status from your WMS, RFID-tagged pallets and cartons read at the dock doors, forklifts as live markers and the trailer yard in view. The Crestline Fulfillment demo shows 2,204 rack locations, pick-to-light, packing, staging lanes and the yard. Read-only share links let a client see only their own floors and layers, with an expiry and no account needed.

Felixstowe is the UK’s busiest container port, and Southampton is a major port for containers, vehicles and cruise ships. Port-centric warehouses and cross-docks around them deconsolidate containers and turn freight around quickly, with dock doors, yard slots, the gate and weighbridge working to tight slots.

Since the UK left the EU customs union, goods moving between Great Britain and the EU need customs declarations, and some warehouses keep goods in customs-controlled or bonded areas until they are cleared. Spatial Map does not make declarations, hold customs records or connect to customs systems. What it can do is show where held goods physically are: a zone drawn on the plan, coloured by the status column your WMS already keeps. The Eastport Cross-Dock demo shows 50 dock doors, 44 yard slots and 1,180 RFID pallets.

UK retailers, especially in clothing, were among the early adopters of item-level RFID to keep stock records accurate, and readers now sit at shop doors, stockrooms and fitting rooms as well as in distribution centres. The reads are only useful in context: which tagged items passed which door, what moved from the stockroom to the sales floor, which department is short. The Retail Mart demo places 85 readers at doors, escalators and lifts across three floors; see RFID gate readers on a retail floor for the set-up.

Behind the shops sit returnable assets: roll cages, dollies, trays and pallets that travel from depot to store and are meant to come back. Tagged cages read at depot and store doors become live markers with a row history, so a site holding more than its share is visible on the map and in reports. Spatial Map does not sound door alarms or send notifications; it shows what happened.

British football, rugby and cricket grounds, arenas and exhibition centres run large events most weeks. Operations and safety teams want turnstiles, concourses, stewards and catering on one screen, and a record for the debrief. The Crown Park Stadium demo shows turnstile scans, crowd counters, row allocations, food and beverage sales and crews; Lakeside Convention Center shows halls, rooms over capacity and crates from dock to stand. Wayfinding builds walking routes around walls and through doors, also on share links for exhibitors and contractors.

In the UK, personal data is governed by the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018, and the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has published guidance on monitoring workers that stresses a clear purpose, transparency with staff and, often, a data protection impact assessment. Location data that can be linked to an employee falls squarely within it. Your legal advisers decide what a particular project needs; most UK warehouse and retail projects start by tagging stock, cages and equipment rather than people.

Spatial Map only shows the data you send it. The four roles (Owner, Admin, Editor, Viewer) limit who sees a facility, share links expose only the layers and floors you choose, and every workspace is isolated. A data processing agreement is available, and the security page explains how data is protected.

Spatial Map is sold online at the same price worldwide, in US dollars, and our team works with UK customers remotely, by video call and through the contact form. The interface is in English, with German, French, Spanish, Arabic and Chinese available for colleagues who prefer them. For multi-site rollouts, floor-plan digitisation and RFID, BLE or WMS integration are quoted as a fixed-price custom service, with a proposal within 3 business days.