Maps for Events

Wow your visitors with easy to access maps and routing. Empower your sponsors, exhibitors, and speakers by putting a spotlight on their branding, content, and presence. Put QR codes around your event space. Doors, booths, screens to help people find their way to the app. When scanned, your visitors get the map right where they scanned. Search where to go. Explore rich content for your exhibitors. Navigate to where you need to be.

Maps for Buildings

Company premises and office real estate can be vast and hard to navigate. Not having maps can make it hard for visitors, tenants, maintenance staff, delivery people, and every other user of your buildings to find their way around. FORMATION extends the public map onto your premises. You can unlock features selectively and make life easier for everyone.

Maps for Industry

Track and manage your assets with FORMATION’s QR code asset tracking system. Affordable for businesses of any size. Use smartphones to track equipment globally. FORMATION is designed for simplicity. Optimize your operations with our low-cost, scalable solution. Easy to use without training.

German Federal Forces

Together with the Cyber Innovation Hub of the German Federal Forces, we deployed FORMATION to optimize the processes of a vast vehicle maintenance facility with twelve football fields worth of indoor space in Jülich, Germany. The project has been an enormous success for the army.

Our defense tech solution is a great example of hybrid tracking at scale. FORMATION has tracked thousands of vehicles and parts across the vast maintenance facility in Jülich since the site launch in 2023. We are using a mix of bluetooth trackers indoors and our QR Code tracking outdoors. Search functionality and our map provide critical situational awareness to onsite staff.

In its evaluation of the project, the Cyber Innovation Hub concluded that FORMATION provided significant benefits and doubled vehicle throughput of the facility, enhanced team productivity by 10%, saved saved 38 minutes per worker per day, boosted overall worker engagement of the facility, and enhanced team performance. The project has now been extended for three and a half additional years and is under review for wider adoption.

KAMAX

KAMAX, a leading automotive fastener manufacturer, partnered with us in 2022 to integrate the FORMATION Map with their SAP system. While SAP tracks goods using symbolic locations like shelf numbers and halls, it lacks geospatial data. Workers update these locations via barcode scanners, a common industry practice. With FORMATION, we turned this into a low cost tracking solution that, without investment in new infrastructure and processes, provides a lot of added value.

The solution synchronised location updates of items in SAP with the FORMATION map. For this, we converted the storage locations to map locations. The updates from SAP were translated to the map locations. This enables critical situational awareness for factory staff, allowing them to effortlessly identify available storage spots using a traffic light system and completely eliminating the need to drive around manually searching - dramatically improving worker efficiency.

Asia Berlin Summit

The Asia Berlin Summit is one of FORMATION’s older customers. We’ve been creating the summit map for them since 2022. And we’re happy to have them back for the 2025 edition. The Asia Berlin Summit brings together entrepreneurs from all over Asia in a networking event that is designed to connect them with Berlin based companies and promote collaboration.

The key focus with the Asia Berlin Summit this year is going to be the visitor experience and promoting networking for the attendees. With FORMATION, attendees can navigate the venue, browse exhibitors, and connect with others using simple tag-based filters. It enables networking by shared interest and topic. Additionally, FORMATION makes it really easy to swap contact details, organize impromptu meetups, helps attendees make the most of the event.

The Asia Berlin Summit map is not just limited to the main summit venue but also includes sattelite events across Berlin, and in Asia.

Hoffest Berlin

Since 2023, FORMATION provides the event map for the Berlin Mayor’s Hoffest - a yearly summer party that the Mayor of Berlin organizes. This exclusive, invite-only event is attended by thousands of members of the Berlin Partner Network. The event celebrates key network members in Berlin such as IFA, Brandenburg Airport, BVG, and countless others.

We used the 2024 edition to pioneer some key features designed to make exhibitors look good. All the booths have custom logos, rich content with movie previews. And of course exhibitors can edit their own map markers.

An additional feature we pioneered for this event is dashboards. Providing key insights about what booths are popular, what visitors are looking for, what feedback they are giving.

We are looking forward to hosting the Hoffest 2025 again next summer.

Ahoy Berlin

FORMATION and Ahoy Berlin are partnering together to use FORMATION to make the Ahoy Berlin co-working building easy to navigate for tenants, visitors, staff, and event organizers. Important themes in the collaboration with Ahoy are making their building easier to navigate for visitors of their events.

Additionally, pursuing Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) goals has a very high priority for Ahoy. FORMATION provides insights into room, desk, and area utilization which enables detailed reporting on energy usage. Additionally, FORMATION provides the community with tools to network with each other, coordinate with staff on, and use the space more effectively.

Ahoy Berlin is also where FORMATION has it’s main office currently. We are constantly innovating and experimenting with new features in the building. You can find FORMATION stickers and signage around the building. And we are planning to actively experiment with solutions that furthers Ahoy’s mission.

Come visit us and experience FORMATION first hand. We’re happy to show you around.

Bosch & Arena 2036

FORMATION was accelerated by the Bosch Startup Harbour startup accelerator program in 2020 (now renamed to the Bosch Innovation Campus). With their support, we built and prototyped many of the features that today form the basis for FORMATION.

One of the things we did was use the Bosch Startup Harbour building as a test bed for prototyping the FORMATION map. We mapped the whole building, added lots of content. And we experimented with IOT for positioning. For this we implemented the innovative Indoor Atlas sensor fusion tracking system.

We also built a solution based on a Bosch IOT solution that we integrated via MQTT. This was demoed in the Arena 2036 environment in 2021. This is now the basis for FORMATION’s hybrid tracking solution.