Real-world RTLS deployments
See how leading organizations use Pole Star's indoor location platform to improve safety, asset visibility, navigation and operational efficiency - across hospitals, airports, railways, ships, aged care and industry.
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Real-time child tracking onboard cruise ships.
- Real-time child location onboard
- Improved passenger safety
- Enhanced guest experience
Crew safety and CO₂ emergency mustering across a multi-ship fleet.
- Automatic CO₂ zone evacuation verification
- Faster emergency mustering
- SOLAS-compliant audit trail
USA. Staff duress and emergency response across hospital facilities.
- Faster emergency response
- Improved staff safety
- Hospital-wide duress coverage
France. Baggage cart tracking and smart redistribution at Paris Charles de Gaulle.
- Real-time visibility of baggage carts
- Smart cart redistribution
- Fewer idle and misplaced carts
France. Protecting underground workers across the tunnels and stations of Grand Paris Express.
- Real-time underground positioning
- Geolocated emergency alerts
- Lone worker protection in GNSS-denied zones
France. Real-time tracking of medical equipment across a major Paris hospital group.
- Improved visibility of medical equipment
- Less time spent searching for devices
- Higher equipment utilization
USA. Indoor wayfinding and navigation at scale using BLE technology.
- Turn-by-turn indoor navigation
- Better visitor experience
- Simpler movement across complex sites
Australia. Protecting caregivers while delivering wireless nurse call across the facility.
- Improved caregiver safety
- Reliable wireless nurse call
- Faster response to residents
France. Indoor navigation integrated into the Ma Gare application for passengers.
- Improved passenger experience
- Simplified station navigation
- In-app turn-by-turn guidance
USA. Staff duress and emergency response across a large hospital network, with CriticalArc SafeZone on Cisco.
- Room-level location for responders
- Faster emergency response
- Hospital-wide staff duress coverage
France. Tracking ground equipment and staff for airport operations at Paris Charles de Gaulle.
- Real-time asset visibility
- Staff location for coordination
- More efficient ground operations
Australia. Real-time protection of caregivers.
- Improved caregiver safety
- Reduced response time
- Better operational coordination
France. Protecting lone workers across sensitive industrial sites - on-premise, closed network.
- Real-time lone worker location
- Fall detection & man-down alerting
- Fully on-premise, closed network
USA. Protecting staff with real-time duress alerts and room-level location.
- Faster response to incidents
- Improved staff safety
- Room-level responder location
Doha, Qatar. With Orange, NAO® Mobile brings permanent indoor and outdoor geolocation across Msheireb Downtown Doha - inside the citizen Msheireb app.
- Seamless indoor/outdoor transition across the city
- Multiple buildings, one app
- On-premise NAO® server - data stays local
Australia. Real-time tracking of hospital equipment.
- Improved equipment visibility
- Reduced search time
- Greater operational efficiency
Australia. Improving staff safety and resident assistance.
- Improved staff protection
- Faster intervention
- Reliable nurse call coverage
Patient-flow optimization across ambulatory services, powered by NAO® Track NG.
- Motion-triggered patient tracking
- Smoother ambulatory journeys
- Long-life, low-maintenance tags
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Results by industry
What organizations typically deploy, and what they typically gain, by sector.
| Industry | Typical projects | Typical benefits |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare | Medical equipment tracking, patient flow, staff duress | Reduced search time, higher utilization, faster response |
| Senior living | Mobile staff duress, wireless nurse call | Improved caregiver safety, faster intervention |
| Airports | Baggage cart and ground equipment tracking | Real-time visibility, smart redistribution, efficiency |
| Rail & metro | Indoor navigation, underground worker safety | Better passenger experience, real-time worker visibility |
| Maritime & cruise | Crew safety, emergency mustering, child tracking | Faster emergency response, improved guest and crew safety |
| Manufacturing | Industrial equipment tracking | Improved equipment visibility, reduced search time |
Why organizations choose Pole Star
A track record, a technical foundation and proven multi-industry expertise - not a single feature.
Proven expertise
- 20+ years of real-time location deployments - the hard cases are already solved
- BLE pioneer, before it became the industry default
- Multi-industry: hospitals, airports, railways, ships and industry
Technical foundation
- Runs on existing Wi-Fi / BLE, not a parallel network
- Open APIs (REST / MQTT) into enterprise systems
Enterprise readiness
- Scales from a single site to global rollouts
- SaaS, on-premise or hybrid deployment
- Live across multiple countries and environments
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