An airport manages thousands of mobile devices. Their loss or unavailability is costly, both in terms of human resources and passenger satisfaction. Large-scale indoor geolocation provides concrete solutions for all your use cases.
The availability of luggage carts and wheelchairs is a critical service level agreement (SLA) indicator.
Real-time location: Instantly identify inventory in storage areas.
Smart redistribution: Optimize your agents' and service providers' routes based on actual needs, avoiding unnecessary travel.
Combat loss and theft: Receive automatic alerts as soon as an asset leaves its authorized perimeter (geofencing).
Passenger stairs, mobile conveyors, ULDs (Unit Load Devices): every minute spent searching for equipment on the tarmac or in the hangars is a minute of potential delay for a flight.
Permanent digital inventory: Replace costly manual campaigns with a real-time view of the status and location of your assets.
Usage analysis: Identify underutilized equipment to adjust your future investments (CAPEX).
In airport environments, security cannot tolerate any "blind spots." For experts in the field, the challenge is to transform an alert into immediate action. Wheere technology provides three-dimensional indoor geolocation data, which enhances and optimizes the operation of security devices (PTI boxes, radios, trackers).
Airports are full of critical areas: technical galleries, roofs, noisy baggage sorting areas, and underground parking lots. In the event of an accident, an alert is not enough; you need to know exactly where to intervene.
The floor: critical data (Z axis): A conventional PTI device will tell you that an agent has "fallen at Terminal 2." A device incorporating the Wheere solutionwill indicate that they are on Level -2, North Technical Gallery. That's the difference between a 2-minute response and a 20-minute search.
Seamless integration into your equipment: Wheere provides precise coordinates to your partners who manufacture lone worker protection devices. Your agents keep their usual devices (with SOS button, fall detection, and loss of verticality detection), but benefit from location tracking accurate to within a meter.
Emergency coordination: In the event of an alert (illness, fall, or assault), the location is sent in real time to the Security PC software. Emergency services are guided directly to the room concerned, without any confusion about which floor or corridor to take.
Mobile conveyors (baggage belts) are strategic assets that operate in close proximity to aircraft. Their unauthorized presence in certain critical areas or their removal from the airside area without traceability constitutes a major security breach.
By equipping these large vehicles with Wheere technology, you can automate the monitoring of your fleet within the secure perimeter:
Strict geofencing control: Set up real-time alerts if a mobile vehicle approaches a restricted area or unauthorized access point. Wheere's accuracy makes it possible to distinguish whether the vehicle is on the service road or has entered a secure hangar.
Automated security audit: In the event of an incident on the tarmac or in the baggage sorting area, access the precise history of movements. You can prove which equipment was present where and when, facilitating investigations and compliance audits (DGAC/GTA).
Detection of suspicious immobilization: A conveyor that remains stationary for a prolonged period in a flow zone may indicate a breakdown, an oversight, or an abnormal situation. The system immediately alerts the supervisory teams so that they can investigate.
For innovation departments and IT departments, deploying a geolocation solution often faces two obstacles: the complexity of cabling and signal instability in environments saturated with metal and concrete. Wheere removes these barriers with a radically different approach.
At airports, GPS signals disappear as soon as you enter a maintenance hangar or underground parking garage. Wi-Fi and Bluetooth quickly become saturated or require too many beacons to be scalable.
Penetration of massive structures: Wheere technology is designed to penetrate the densest obstacles: thick walls, fire doors, and even metal infrastructure. Where conventional signals bounce off and create errors, Wheere maintains metric accuracy.
Indoor/Outdoor continuity: The transition from the tarmac (outdoor) to the baggage sorting areas (indoor) is seamless. A mobile conveyor or forklift truck is tracked on a single data stream, regardless of its environment.
Unlike solutions requiring dense and costly networks, Wheere's infrastructure is lightweight and easy to install.
Simplified deployment: four transmission points are sufficient to cover a large area of one square kilometer (departure halls, cargo areas, parking lots).
Independence from the airport network: Wheere can operate autonomously. This reduces cybersecurity risks and simplifies validation by IT teams, as there is no interference with critical airport networks or air navigation systems.
Wheere's strength lies in transforming a technological investment into a resource shared by all departments. Once the infrastructure is in place, location data becomes a "commodity" accessible via API:
Logistics:optimization of conveyor and ULD flows.
Security & Safety:monitoring of sensitive areas and rapid clarification of doubts.
HSE/HR:protection of lone workers and ergonomic analysis of movements.
Maintenance: immediate location of equipment requiring maintenance.
"For C-level executives, the appeal of Wheere lies in the cost-effectiveness of the infrastructure. We don't deploy a solution for a single need, but rather a technological layer capable of driving dozens of business use cases across the entire airport ecosystem." Pierre Bolzonello, Sales Director at Wheere
Wheere has overcome a technological barrier long considered insurmountable in geolocation: reconciling indoor penetration with location accuracy.
Wheere is currently the only technology in the world capable of providing accurate indoor positioning without dense infrastructure or dependence on GNSS, thereby setting a new global standard for geolocation.
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