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Wayfinding · Charlotte · Healthcare & public buildings

Patients and visitors find their way. Without asking your staff.

Charlotte is the interactive wayfinding avatar — multilingual, accessible, with a visual map and voice interaction. She relieves reception and staff from giving directions and answering routine questions, day in, day out.

In production across Germany·100+ languages·BFSG-accessible·GDPR & HIS-ready
Wayfinding kiosk with avatar Charlotte in a hospital entrance hallLive · Wayfinding with indoor maps
What Charlotte delivers for your hospital

Three outcomes. Measurable per site.

01

Noticeable relief at reception

Directions, routine questions, admission preparation — today a job for your front desk, tomorrow a job for Charlotte. Your staff focus on what only they can deliver: empathy and complex cases.

02

Multilingual service without the language barrier

Charlotte answers in over 100 languages — Turkish, Ukrainian, Arabic, English and more. International patients and companions are understood without anyone having to translate. Accessible in line with BFSG.

03

Available 24/7 — nights and weekends included

Charlotte doesn't work in shifts. Suppliers, emergency visitors, patients with late appointments — everyone finds their way, even when reception isn't staffed. Service quality without extra headcount.

How it works

Four situations from the hospital.

Charlotte is not a screen with a search box. She is a guide who talks with patients and visitors — in their language, with a visual map, end-to-end.

Scenario 1 · Wayfinding

Finds her department — without asking reception.

Appointment, floor, wing: Charlotte shows the route on the map and hands it over via print or QR code to the smartphone — across multiple buildings and outdoor paths.

Outcome: the patient finds her way on her own — reception stays free.
Scenario 2 · Multilingual

An international patient without a language bottleneck.

Charlotte switches seamlessly across 100+ languages and resolves the request entirely in the visitor's language — e.g. Arabic, Turkish or Ukrainian.

Outcome: request resolved — no translation bottleneck at reception.
Scenario 3 · Service request

Beyond wayfinding — cafeteria and taxi.

Charlotte knows the building's opening hours, services and procedures and triggers actions like ordering a taxi — end to end.

Outcome: wayfinding plus a completed service action — staff untouched.
Scenario 4 · After hours

A supplier in the evening — when reception is closed.

After 6 pm, Charlotte directs suppliers to the goods-receiving area and announces their arrival to the shift on duty — without staff.

Outcome: deliveries keep running after hours — with no one at reception.
Hospital architecture meets hospital empathy

A hospital is an emotional place.

Patients often arrive worried, relatives under stress. That is why we build differently for hospitals than for train stations or government offices: Charlotte was developed and proven in daily hospital operations to take that reality seriously — as a guide and a receptionist in one.

The same pattern carries beyond healthcare: government offices, industrial receptions, tourism and libraries already use it in production.

Experience Charlotte live →
Charlotte guiding a visitor with an interactive indoor map at the kiosk
100+
Languages
24/7
Available
BFSG
Accessible
4–8
Weeks to go live
Benefits

What Charlotte delivers technically.

Indoor maps for complex campuses

Real-time wayfinding across multiple buildings, floors and wings — including outdoor routes from the car park to the department.

Voice and touch operation

Patients can ask or tap. Voice control is especially relevant for people with mobility impairments.

QR handover to the smartphone

Patients take the route with them on their own phone — the guidance continues even after they leave the terminal.

Accessible in line with BFSG

High-contrast display, audio support, voice control — also suitable for visually impaired patients.

Optional integration with hospital systems

Subject to an individual project agreement, Charlotte can be connected to your HIS — for admission preparation or appointment confirmation, for example.

Maps adjustable afterwards

Renovations, new routes, temporary closures — we adjust the indoor maps for you afterwards, so the wayfinding always stays up to date.

Charlotte is more than a digital guidance system — she takes the worry of finding the way off patients, visitors and relatives the moment they set foot on the hospital grounds. Reception is measurably relieved, and the service experience is audibly better.
From a hospital project team
Charlotte introduction · Wayfinding avatar
How a wayfinding project runs

Four phases. First site first, roll-out after.

PHASE 01
Week 1

Intro call & demo

A 30-minute conversation with our senior solution architect. Live demo at a reference hospital, review of your building situation and the modules.

PHASE 02
Weeks 2–5

Map capture & configuration

Capturing your building plans (floors, wings, outdoor routes), configuration for your hospital, optional HIS integration, language and content tailoring.

PHASE 03
by week 8

First site live

Charlotte goes into production at your hospital. Supported by our solution architect, staff training, patient feedback, KPI monitoring.

PHASE 04
afterwards

Roll-out to further sites

Scaling across all facilities in your group. Standardized templates from the first site shorten each new one to a few weeks.

FAQ

What hospital decision-makers ask first.

Costs consist of a one-time setup effort per site and a monthly license, plus the modules you actually use (multilingual pack, workflow avatar, video connect, etc.). How large the investment is depends on building size, number of sites, depth of integration and the features you want — and it scales with the value it delivers. In the intro call we put together a concrete configuration tailored to your hospital, with a transparent quote.

Yes. Renovations, new routes or temporary closures are handled by us afterwards — as a service by our team. This keeps the indoor map up to date without you having to maintain it yourself.

Yes. Voice control makes operation easier for people with mobility impairments, the visual presentation is high-contrast in line with BFSG requirements, and audio support can optionally be enabled. Also suitable for visually impaired patients.

Yes. Charlotte is hosted in Germany; all data stays within the EU. Processing is GDPR-compliant. Integration with your hospital information system (HIS) — for admission preparation or appointment confirmation, for example — is also possible subject to an individual project agreement.

German and English by default. The multilingual module adds over 100 more languages — Turkish, Arabic, Ukrainian, Russian, Polish, French and more. We configure the selection to match your patient demographics.

Charlotte runs on touchscreen steles, wall displays with speakers or kiosk systems. We provide hardware recommendations and can work with your existing infrastructure. Charlotte can also be handed over to the patient's smartphone via QR code — no additional hardware needed.

Typically 4 to 8 weeks from intro call to the first site live — depending on the complexity of the building, it can take a little longer. Map capture is the most time-intensive step. Follow-up sites within the same group go live significantly faster thanks to templates.

Next step

You know your hospital. We know wayfinding.

In 30 minutes we'll work out whether Charlotte makes sense in your hospital — with a live demo at a reference site. Directly with Thomas van den Berg, our senior solution architect, no sales pitch.

Tim Schuster

Tim Schuster

Founder & Managing Director
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Nina Gipperich

Nina Gipperich

Key Account Manager · Banking
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