Singapore's Punggol Regional Library is the largest public library in Singapore — approximately 12,000 square meters of collections, services, and community space, designed from the ground up to be inclusive and accessible. As a LAB25 (Libraries and Archives Blueprint 2025) facility, its commitment to welcoming every visitor isn't an afterthought. It's the point.

Now, every one of those visitors can navigate it independently using Waymap.

A new deployment category

The NLB partnership marks Waymap's first live deployment in a public library — and a natural extension of what we've demonstrated across transit networks, hospitals, and retail destinations worldwide. Large public buildings present the same core navigation challenge regardless of sector: multiple floors, dense points of interest, a visitor base that spans every age and ability level, and a standard digital mapping infrastructure that stops at the door.

Waymap keeps working where GPS ends.

The app provides step-by-step audio and on-screen navigation across Punggol Regional Library's full indoor and outdoor environment — guiding library-goers to specific sections, service desks, accessible facilities, and exits with step-level precision. No beacons. No Wi-Fi positioning. No hardware installed anywhere in the building. Just the sensors already in a visitor's phone, combined with Waymap's AI-powered SmartStep™ algorithm and high-fidelity digital maps.

Why it matters

Public libraries are vital community infrastructure — built precisely to serve everyone. But for people with visual impairments, mobility challenges, or other disabilities, navigating a large multi-zone public building independently can be genuinely difficult. Audio guidance, step-free routing, and personalised navigation preferences mean the Punggol experience adapts to individual needs as a matter of course.

This is Waymap's 5th go-live in Singapore, following deployments across the SBS Transit MRT and LRT network — and with more venues in the pipeline for 2026.

Singapore's broader ambition

Singapore has established itself as one of the most active markets for infrastructure-free accessible navigation in the world. From the world-first transit-to-mall cluster deployment at Tampines and Punggol MRT stations, to the NLB partnership, the country's approach to inclusive public space is setting a benchmark that other cities are watching closely.

Waymap's deployment at Punggol Regional Library demonstrates that the case for accessible navigation extends to any large public building where independent movement matters — and that the infrastructure-free model can deliver it without disrupting a single service or screwing a single bracket into a single wall.

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