Punggol Regional Library is Singapore's largest public library, located in the northeast of Singapore Island. As a LAB25 (Libraries and Archives Blueprint 2025) library, it is designed to be a genuinely inclusive space — one with something for everyone to read, learn, and discover, with accessibility built into the facility’s core purpose rather than treated as an afterthought.

The NLB’s commitment to reading, learning, and lifelong discovery requires that its spaces are accessible to everyone in Singapore — including people with visual impairments, mobility challenges, and other disabilities. Waymap’s deployment at Punggol Regional Library reflects that commitment: ensuring that every library-goer can navigate the facility independently, with the same ease and confidence as any other visitor.

Why Waymap

Large public libraries present real navigation challenges: multiple floors, extensive collections, diverse service zones, and a visitor profile that includes people of all ages and abilities. Waymap’s infrastructure-free, precision indoor navigation — operating via motion sensors and AI-powered algorithms without relying on GPS, Wi-Fi, or installed beacons — is well suited to this kind of complex public building.

The NLB deployment represents Waymap’s first live deployment in a public library setting — a sector with significant potential for accessible navigation technology globally. Public libraries serve as vital community infrastructure for people of all ages and abilities; making them fully navigable for everyone who uses them is a natural extension of the public library’s core mission.

The Punggol Regional Library deployment demonstrates that Waymap’s technology is adaptable beyond transit, retail, and sports venue environments — and that the case for infrastructure-free accessible navigation extends to any large public building where independent navigation is meaningful.