Static-QR Indoor Wayfinding: A Low-Hardware Approach to Giving Visitors Directions Inside Large Buildings

Visitors to large buildings such as hospitals, malls, campuses, hotels and exhibition venues often cannot find their destination and interrupt staff to ask. This note describes Areyos, a wayfinding approach that avoids live indoor positioning. A QR code on a wall identifies a known location; scanning it opens a web page (no app) with ordered step-by-step directions to a destination the visitor chooses, and the visitor confirms each step. The note covers the problem, the design, its deliberate limitations, and a planned pilot evaluation. The system is a working prototype; no deployment results are reported and no claim about effectiveness is made. Not peer reviewed.

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Published
2026-11-02
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23879393
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Indoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies
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Static-QR Indoor Wayfinding: A Low-Hardware Approach to Giving Visitors Directions Inside Large Buildings

Anas Khan
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Indoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies
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Static-QR Indoor Wayfinding: A Low-Hardware Approach to Giving Visitors Directions Inside Large Buildings

Anas Khan
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Abstract

Visitors to large buildings such as hospitals, malls, campuses, hotels and exhibition venues often cannot find their destination and interrupt staff to ask. This note describes Areyos, a wayfinding approach that avoids live indoor positioning. A QR code on a wall identifies a known location; scanning it opens a web page (no app) with ordered step-by-step directions to a destination the visitor chooses, and the visitor confirms each step. The note covers the problem, the design, its deliberate limitations, and a planned pilot evaluation. The system is a working prototype; no deployment results are reported and no claim about effectiveness is made. Not peer reviewed.

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Indoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies
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