Indoor positioning & RTLS that reuse your existing infrastructure
Locate equipment, people and assets in real time at room-level accuracy, with no heavy cabling and no rip-and-replace. Pole Star runs on the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth already in your building.
Trusted by operators of the world's most demanding sites
When you can't see your building in real time, the losses are invisible too
Most facilities run blind on location. The result is wasted time, idle equipment, slower emergencies and frustrated visitors.
Staff spend hours hunting for equipment
Nurses, technicians and ground crews lose time every shift looking for pumps, beds, tools and vehicles that should be findable in seconds.
Assets sit idle and get over-purchased
Without usage data, organizations buy more equipment than they need while existing units go unused in the wrong place.
At-risk and lone workers can't call for help fast
When an alarm has no location attached, response is slower and riskier in hospitals, factories and isolated areas alike.
Visitors get lost; staff lose time guiding them
Large hospitals, airports and campuses are hard to navigate, driving missed appointments, missed flights and avoidable stress.
Real-time location, without rebuilding your building
Pole Star is engineered to deploy fast and cost less, by working with the infrastructure you already operate.
Tags & smartphones
Small BLE tags on assets, badges for people, or the app on existing phones.
Your existing network
Wi-Fi access points and Bluetooth sensors detect signals — no new cabling in most cases.
Positioning engine
The engine computes each position in real time, indoors and outdoors, on one map.
Dashboards & alerts
Live maps, analytics, geofence alerts and APIs that plug into your systems.
Reusing existing Wi-Fi and BLE avoids the heavy cost of dedicated infrastructure.
Plug-and-play deployment instead of months of installation and disruption.
One continuous platform from the car park to the corridor — no blind spots at the door.
BLE, AoA, UWB and Wi-Fi, matched to the accuracy each use case actually needs.
One location platform, the outcomes that matter
Start from the result you need. Every solution runs on the same Pole Star platform and your existing network.
Asset & equipment tracking
Locate equipment in real time, cut search time and right-size your fleet with usage data.
Explore →Staff & worker safety
Located duress alarms, lone-worker protection and man-down alerts that send help to the exact spot.
Explore →Indoor navigation & wayfinding
Turn-by-turn blue-dot guidance for visitors and patients across complex sites.
Explore →Flow & occupancy analytics
See how people and assets move, find bottlenecks and optimize space and operations.
Explore →Geofencing & zone monitoring
Trigger alerts and workflows when assets or people enter, leave or dwell in defined zones.
Explore →People counting & occupancy
Measure footfall and real-time occupancy to manage capacity, safety and experience.
Explore →Real-time location, built for your industry
The same platform, tuned to the assets, workflows and stakes of each sector.
RTLS for Hospitals & Healthcare
Track medical equipment, improve staff safety, reduce search time and optimize patient flow with real-time location services.
Explore industry →Airport Asset Tracking & RTLS
Track ground support equipment, improve turnaround performance and increase operational visibility across terminals and airside operations.
Explore industry →RTLS for Rail & Metro
Improve operational awareness, track mobile assets and optimize staff and fleet management across transportation networks.
Explore industry →RTLS for Cruise & Maritime
Deliver seamless indoor navigation, passenger wayfinding and operational visibility across vessels and terminals.
Explore industry →RTLS for Manufacturing
Monitor assets, workflows and worker safety while improving operational efficiency across industrial facilities.
Explore industry →Warehouse Asset Tracking & RTLS
Track inventory, equipment and workflows in real time to improve productivity and warehouse performance.
Explore industry →Proven in mission-critical environments
From hospitals and airports to cruise operations, Pole Star powers real-time visibility where reliability, scale and operational continuity matter most.
Northwestern Medicine
- 8 hospitals
- 35,000 staff badges
- Mobile duress & responder tracking
Pole Star enables real-time staff safety across a major healthcare network, leveraging existing Wi-Fi infrastructure and supporting tens of thousands of healthcare workers.
Explore Healthcare →Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport
- Ground operations visibility
- Asset tracking
- Indoor + outdoor continuity
Pole Star provides operational visibility across one of Europe's largest airport environments, helping teams locate assets and improve operational efficiency.
Explore Airports →Royal Caribbean
- Passenger wayfinding
- Operational visibility
- Large-scale deployments
Pole Star supports indoor navigation and real-time visibility across complex cruise environments where passenger experience and operational efficiency are critical.
Explore Maritime →Deploy faster. Spend less. Scale smarter.
Unlike traditional RTLS solutions that require costly infrastructure deployments, Pole Star leverages existing Wi-Fi and Bluetooth environments to deliver real-time visibility faster and with significantly lower CAPEX.
Traditional RTLS
Pole Star RTLS
Feature comparison
| Capability | Pole Star | Typical RTLS |
|---|---|---|
| Reuse existing infrastructure | ✓ | ✕ |
| Bluetooth low energy positioning | ✓ | Limited |
| Smartphone ready | ✓ | ✕ |
| Indoor & outdoor continuity | ✓ | Limited |
| Deployment speed | Fast | Slow |
| Total cost of ownership | Low | High |
Northwestern Medicine
- 35,000 staff badges
- 8 hospitals
- Real-time staff duress
AP-HP Saint-Antoine
- 100+ tracked assets
- Emergency department deployment
- Real-time equipment visibility
Royal Caribbean
- Passenger wayfinding
- Operational visibility
- Cruise deployment
Indoor positioning & RTLS, answered
What is RTLS?
How accurate is BLE positioning?
Can RTLS reuse existing Wi-Fi infrastructure?
What industries use indoor positioning?
How long does deployment take?
What is the difference between RTLS and RFID?
Can Pole Star track both people and assets?
Does Pole Star work indoors and outdoors?
Latest RTLS insights
Explore the latest articles, guides and industry perspectives from Pole Star.
RTLS vs RFID: What's the difference?
Understand the differences between RTLS and RFID and discover which technology is best suited for asset tracking, visibility and operational efficiency.
Read article →BLE positioning explained
Learn how Bluetooth Low Energy positioning works and why it has become one of the most scalable technologies for indoor location services.
Read article →Hospital asset tracking: benefits, ROI and best practices
Explore how hospitals use RTLS and BLE asset tracking to reduce search time, improve utilization and increase operational efficiency.
Read article →See what real-time visibility looks like in your environment
Bring your floor plan, use case or operational challenge. Our team will show how Pole Star can deliver indoor positioning, asset tracking and real-time visibility using the infrastructure you already have.